| Names: | Born: Martin Marmorstein
Other: Martin Muncacsi
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| | Dates: | 1896, 18 May - 1963, 13 July | | Born: | Hungary, Munkacsi, Kolozsvar [now Romania, Cluj-Napoca] | | Died: | US, NY, New York | | Active: | Germany / US | | Gender: | Male |
Fashion photographer.
His younger brother Muky Munkacsi was also a photographer.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Morgan, Susan, 1992, Martin Munkacsi, (New York: Aperture,) [Δ]
White, Nancy & Esten, John, 1979, Style in Motion: Munkacsi Photographs ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.) [Δ]
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Family history
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.152 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.346-347
• Coke, Van Deren with Diana C. Du Pont 1986 Photography: A Facet of Modernism (New York: Hudson Hills Press, The San Francisco Museum of Art) p.179
• Fernandez, Horacio (ed.) 2000 Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Aldeasa) p.182-183 [This Spanish exhibition catalogue is one of the best sources for illustrations of photomontage and book design for the period between the two World Wars.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Martin Munkácsi.]
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.463 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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