# 04 THE 2020 AUTUMN CLASSICA free magazine about classic photography In this issue AGHA, BRODOVITCH AND LIBERMAN Pioneering Art Directors HELMUT NEWTON CENTENARY ARMENIAN STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHERS In The Ottoman Empire GOING DUTCH Classic Photography In The Netherlands 1 WILLEM PHOTOGRAPHIC Mainbocher Corset, Paris, Horst P. Horst, 1939 Carmen, American Vogue, Norman Parkinson, 1948 9”x12” signed gelatin silver photograph 15”x18” signed gelatin silver photograph Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers, Irving Penn, 1948 Christy in Museum, Harper’s Bazaar US, Patrick Demarchelier, 1992 8”x10” signed gelatin silver photograph 11”x14” signed gelatin silver photograph Willem Photographic, 426 Calle Principal, Monterey CA 93950 Contact - Brooke Gabrielson 949.887.4373 or Robert Packard 415.378.4218, Gallery 831.648.1050 willemphotographic.com [email protected] 2 WILLEM PHOTOGRAPHIC PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY Mainbocher Corset, Paris, Horst P. Horst, 1939 Carmen, American Vogue, Norman Parkinson, 1948 9”x12” signed gelatin silver photograph 15”x18” signed gelatin silver photograph One of the largest inventories of Classic and Contemporary Fine Art Photography Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers, Irving Penn, 1948 Christy in Museum, Harper’s Bazaar US, Patrick Demarchelier, 1992 8”x10” signed gelatin silver photograph 11”x14” signed gelatin silver photograph www.peterfetterman.com Santa Monica, CA Willem Photographic, 426 Calle Principal, Monterey CA 93950 [email protected] 310.453.6463 Contact - Brooke Gabrielson 949.887.4373 or Robert Packard 415.378.4218, Gallery 831.648.1050 willemphotographic.com [email protected] Sarah Moon. La Ralentie, 2011 © Sarah Moon 10 IN BRIEF 14 CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES, NEW YORK By Mary Pelletier 18 AGHA, BRODOVITCH AND LIBERMAN PIONEERING ART DIRECTORS By Michael Diemar 40 HELMUT NEWTON CENTENARY By Michael Diemar 50 FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY IN FROM THE COLD Interview with Philippe Garner By Michael Diemar 56 PHOTOGRAPHS OF QAJAR PERSIA IN THE THOMAS WALTHER COLLECTION By Maria Francesca Bonetti 62 ARMENIAN STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE By Mary Pelletier 74 GOING DUTCH, CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NETHERLANDS By Michael Diemar 88 JOHN OLAV RIISE, THE UNKNOWN MASTER By Michael Diemar 92 TRUDE FLEISCHMANN, THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY By Anna Zimm 94 FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION By Richard Meara www.theclassicphotomag.com Email us at [email protected] SUBSCRIBE to The Classic International : 80 € / France : 50 € – 2 print issues /year Email us at [email protected] ADVERTISE in The Classic Bruno Tartarin Publisher Michael Diemar Editor-in-Chief Email us at [email protected] Mike Derez Graphic Designer Contact the editor at [email protected] Mary Pelletier Contributing editor and social media manager FOLLOW US on @classicphotomag classicphotomag classicphotomag Printed in France by Ott imprimeur Cover: Alexey Brodovitch. 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He tells the story of his father Erwin’s arrival in New York in 1939 and his encounter with LIFE magazine’s arts editor Alexander King, who then “took out a hypodermic filled with a milky fluid and quite unselfconsciously struck the needle into his arm whispering: Vitamin E! You won’t find the article in these pages. It’s one of a growing number of articles on The Classic Platform, an online resource that we have just launched on our website. There are several reasons for its existence. When I developed the concept for The Classic, I was determined that it should be a magazine, not an academic journal, which is why the long articles are interviews or interview-based. But this meant leaving out some fascinating essays and some lengthy scientific papers that I felt would be of great interest. And on occasion, I felt that more could be written on a subject, and that an online resource would be useful. The final reason being that there are just too many interesting things to feature to fit into two issues a year. A few of the articles on The Classic Platform have been published before, the earliest being László Moholy-Nagy’s From Pigment to Light, first published in 1936, but most were written especially for the platform. The team and I are extremely grateful to the authors who gave their time and energy and shared their passions for their respective subjects. There’s news on another front as well, concerning publishing. An important factor behind our magazine’s success is that it’s a print magazine. When we published issue 2, we made issue 1 available as a pdf. We were going to follow the same pattern with issue 3. And then the virus struck. By the time issue 3 was printed, most of the world had shut down. As a free magazine, we rely on our distributors; museums, galleries, auction houses and fairs, all closed or cancelled, so we decided to make issue 3 available as a pdf immediately. This proved to be highly successful and because of it, we have acquired a new and much larger readership, including readers in territories where we haven’t been able to arrange distribution. Virus or not, we will continue like this, publishing the digital version at the same time as the print magazine. This has also appealed to our advertisers, as it means that The Classic has, as they say, “gone global”. Michael Diemar Editor-in-chief THE CLASSIC Platform An online resource Woman with Large Plate, Roma 1978. (Francesca Woodman) © Stephan Brigidi. Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery PHOTOGRAPHERS Steven Arnold by Vishnu Dass Erwin Blumenfeld How to become the World’s Greatest Living Photographer! by Yorick Blumenfeld In My Room - Saul Leiter’s Intimate Portraits by Michael Parillo Babylon Halt - Agha’s Travel Photographs by Michael Diemar Francesca Woodman - On Being an Angel by Stephan Brigidi theclassicphotomag.com/the-classic-platformFrom Pigment to Light by László Moholy-Nagy Julia Margaret Cameron - A Priestess of the Sun by Stephen White 8 MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS, CURATORS AND DEALERS The