#Masks by illustrator Saul Steinberg photographed by Inge Morath in New York

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Saul Steinberg Masquerade

Inge Morath

Viking Studio ,New York 2000, 80 pages,  62 duotone illustrations

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Artist and photographer tweak the noses of their subjects in a series of playful portraits

Photographer Inge Morath and the late New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg engaged in a unique collaboration in the late 1950s and early 1960s by having friends and acquaintances don paper bags drawn with fantastic faces and then posing them for photographs. In a delightful series of individual and group portraits--now published together for the first time--otherwise respectable people have been implicated in their mischief. Morath's straightforward, reportorial style is the perfect counterpoint to Steinberg's charming, whimsical masks. The deadpan of the photography, the Paul Klee-like humor of the drawing, and the intriguing anonymity of the figures--we don't know who they are, but we know exactly who they are--stir a spirit of mischievious charm that will make this the perfect little gift book.

Inge Morath was born in Austria and worked as a photographic assistant to Henri-Cartier Bresson before coming to America. She became a member of Magnum in 1955, and has won numerous awards for her photography. She is the wife of Arthur Miller.

Romanian Saul Steinberg is best known for his drawings in The New Yorker. He has won various awards for his drawings and watercolors. He is the author of several books of drawings, including The Passport, and The New World. He died in 1999.

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