MICROGRAPHIE DÉCORATIVE

Laure Albin Guillot
MICROGRAPHIE DÉCORATIVE

Photographs: Laure Albin Guillot

Text: Paul Léon

Publisher: Draeger Frères

48 pages

Pictures: 20

Year: 1931

Comments: Metal spiral binding, filled and embossed cover, silver title, cream casing with flaps and publisher's ribbons, 42 x 35 cm, colors plates beautifully printed by Draeger . Some stains on cover otherwise in very good condition with the rare slipcase also in very good condition. Extremely rare limited and numbered of 300 Copies! Cited in Parr and Badger I (p 80) and Paris les livres de photographie (p102-105)

Laure Albin Guillot has been interested in micrographs since the beginning of theCentury: she photographed them for her research husband.

However, she perceived very quickly the plastic possibilities they concealed.

However, it is at the end of the years 1920 that she will exploit them aesthetically, then revealing to the public thesumptuous show,

invisible to the naked eye, crystals and microorganisms.

Micrographie décorative presents a selection of twenty plates in large format, of exceptional quality,

whose printing has been entrusted to Draeger; one of the best printers of the time.

The photos are printed in colour on metallic paper that mirrors and looks like give a kind of transparency and inner light to each of the clichés,

which evoke an abstract composition, regular and often geometric.

Excerpt from the text of Christian Bouqueret in "Paris les livres de photographies"