Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Season 1946-47. Sergei J, Denham, director

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New York: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1946.. Pictorial paper wrappers. Fine.. 4to. 70 pp. Full page color illustrations by Christian Berard, Isamu Noguchi, Henri Matisse and Eugene Berman. Double page black and white photograph of 30 legendary ballet personages including George Balanchine, Maria Tallchief, Agnes De Mille, Boris Aronson, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin etc. etc. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs by Irving Penn, Erwin Blumenfeld and Herman Landshoff. Cover design by Corrado Cagli. This program for the season 1946-1947 is a tour de force of design and photography by the legendary director of Vogue, Alexey Brodovitch. It appears 1 year after his book titled Ballet published by J.J. Augustin in 1945. That book has become one of the trophy books in modern design and photography. This Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo program is of the same importance and caliber for Brodovitch brought Irving Penn, Erwin Blumentfeld and Herman Landshoff to do the photography to his, Brodovitch's mis en page. Sweet, sweet sweet.

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