Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, though famous for her words, was as interest in being seen as she was in being read. She posed for thousand of photographs during her lifetime - taken by friends and family and by some of the twenthieth century's most famous image-makers, including Cecil Beaton, Imogen Cunningham, and Man Ray.
Editor Renate Stendhal has selected 360 photographs - more than 100 of those seen here for the first time - of Gertrude Stein, her compagnion Alice B. Toklas, and many familiar and famous faces who surrounded her. These photographs, artfully matched with text from Stein's work and from letters and memoirs of those who knew her, make up a distinctive new portrait of the Mother of Modernism in the expatriate circles of 1920's Paris.

Biografia, Autobiografia, Memórias / Fotografia