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| Horst Tappe, Vladimir Nabokov, Tilo Richter: |
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| Photographs by Horst Tappe |
| It was in 1962 that the photographer Horst Tappe first met Vladimir Nabokov at the Montreux Palace Hotel |
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| in Switzerland where Nabokov resided while penning his great novels Pale Fire and Ada or Ardor. Until Nabokov’s death in 1977, Tappe photographed the world-renowned author of Lolita in private as well as on the Swiss mountain slopes catching butterflies (Nabokov once stated "My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting"). |
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| These remarkable photographs reveal a man going about his daily tasks — a man with a purpose, a man of passion who was both stubborn and charming. They depict the author bent over his writing desk, lost in quiet contemplation, out for a stroll (as solitary walker or accompanied by his wife Vera) and, of course, exuberantly hunting those beloved butterflies. |
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Many of the photographs are already famous. Others, never published before, promise to become no less so.” |
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64 pages, Hardcover, 8'' x 10'' (202 x 250 mm)
30 duotone photographs, English / French / German |
ISBN-13: 978-3-85616-152-1
ISBN-10: 3-85616-152-X |
$ 19.95 |
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Gingko Press, Inc.
1321 Fifth Street
Berkeley, California 94710
Phone: (510) 898-1195
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Horst Tappe (1938-2005) |
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| “Horst Tappe — Photographer whose portraits of artists and writers were an extension of his love of painting and literature” |
| timesonline.co.uk/tappe |
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Vladimir Nabokov:
Alphabet in Color |
| For anyone who has ever wondered how the colors Nabokov heard might manifest themselves visually, Alphabet in Color is a remarkable journey of discovery. Jean Holabird’s interpretation of the colored alphabets of one of the twentieth century’s literary greats is a revelation. |
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