Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim
An Intimate Collection of Behind-the-scenes photos
Stefan Moses
Hardie Grant Books, 2018
€32,00
Born into a wealthy New York family in 1928, Marguerite ‘Peggy’ Guggenheim is one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century. Using her inheritance to open her first art gallery, Peggy’s love of art lead to to eventually settle in Venice, where she relaunched her life after becoming the star of the 1948 Venice Art Biennale. For her, a life without the inspiration of her artist and writer friends would have been just as unthinkable as a life without art per se. In Encounters with Peggy Guggenheim, renowned photographer Stefan Moses reveals his collection of photographs of Peggy, taken between 1969 and 1974, many of which have never been seen before. Striking, eccentric, and dramatic, Moses photographed Peggy in her favorite places around Venice, as well as in her private palazzo at Canal Grande. See Peggy as she glides on her gondola with her Lhasa apso dogs, wearing her iconic butterfly glasses made by Edward Melcarth — the quickness and talent of Moses captures the character of this true eccentric.
ISBN: 9781784881870
