(b New York, 1928). American photographer and film maker. After studying for a degree in social sciences at the City College of New York from the age of 14, he joined the army in 1945, a year before graduation, and worked as a cartoonist for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. He moved to Paris in 1948, studying the history of art at the Sorbonne and also briefly studying painting under Fernand L?ger. He began producing large geometric abstract paintings, some of which he exhibited in 1952 at the Galleria Il Milione in Milan. A commission to produce similar works mounted on rotating joints led him to photograph them in motion, resulting in a series of blurred abstract photographs (see Heilpern, p. 11). These essentially abstract images, some of which were used as covers for the magazine Domus, fired his interest in photography.
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