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(PICASSO / PHOTOGRAPHY / MOMA.) Mili, Gjon; and Robert Capa. "Photographs of Picasso." Introduction by Edward Steichen. Photographic plates of installation shots by Mili and Capa and statements by Steichen, Mili, and Capa from wall labels for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, January 24-March 19, 1950. Folio, plastic ring-bound photographic boards with clear plastic cover front cover stamped with the name of Paul Nodler, Mili's assistant, and orange tinted rear cover. [New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950]
Only a small, unrecorded number of these bound catalogues are known to exist. The Museum of Modern Art's copy, bound for Steichen, is the only recorded institutional copy. The photographs show Picasso's "space drawings," a technique pioneered by Mili, where the camera lens follows a flashlight, held as a brush or pen, from which a strobe light exposure creates the photograph. The images by Capa of Picasso's family life lent a personal, photojournalistic complement to the exhibition.
