Morocco

Harry Gruyaert

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CONDITION & NOTES
Good / Dust jacket has signs of shelf wear consisting of surface scratching and some discolouration along the edges. Minor tear in the dust jacket at the bottom of the spine of about 1 cm. Interior has minor signs of use.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

1990

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

German

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Schirmer/Mosel 33 x 31 x 2.5 cm
CONDITION
Good / Dust jacket has signs of shelf wear consisting of surface scratching and some discolouration along the edges. Minor tear in the dust jacket at the bottom of the spine of about 1 cm. Interior has minor signs of use.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
1990

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
German

PUBLISHER
Schirmer/Mosel

DIMENSIONS
33 x 31 x 2.5 cm

ABOUT

Belgian photographer and filmmaker Harry Gruyaert travelled extensively to the North African country of Morocco. Gruyaert’s first trip to the country marked his colour photography ‘epiphany’. Gruyaert joined Magnum Photos in 1982. 

 

While Gruyaert became fascinated by the power of colour when he first moved to Paris in the 1960s, and subsequently on his first trip to New York in 1968 where he saw the works of Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, his revelation that colour photography was his preferred medium came from his very first trip to Morocco in 1969. Reminiscent of artists Eugène Delacroix and Henri Matisse, this revelation had a long-lasting impact on Gruyaert’s oeuvre which he decided to entirely dedicate to colour photography.