In the tradition of such photographers as Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Anton Bruehl, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, all of whom made significant photographic forays into Mexico, Outerbridge ventured south in his 1949 black Cadillac, frequenting the seaport towns along the Baja peninsula. In the late 1940s and 1950s he took his camera to the streets, crossing the border between California and Mexico and photographing the people and places he found. Outerbridge built his extraordinary reputation by making virtuoso carbro-colour prints of nudes and still lifes, mainly in the studio, during the 1930s. The publication of “Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955” marks the discovery of a previously unknown and unpublished body of work by one of America’s earliest masters of colour photography. Paul Outerbridge – New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955
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