Paul Outerbridge

📷Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (August 15, 1896 – October 17, 1958) was an American photographer.

He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography and his avant-garde use of compositional space. Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer whose style of formal arrangement drew from Cubism and Modern abstract painting.  

His photographic still-lifes of objects and various commercial products defined the twentieth-century’s advertising aesthetic. Outerbridge also created a series of erotic nude photographs that were unable to be shown publicly during his lifetime due to censorship laws.

A technical and conceptual master, Paul Outerbridge’s photographs were decades ahead of their time. 

As Outerbridge suggests, was formative to his photography, writing “I worked out a theory of my own for the painting of scenes with light alone”.

Current exhibitions: 

André Kertész | Window Views, BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY, Mar 28th – May 4th

Alfred Leslie | Our Luminous Paradise, BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY, Jan 10th – Mar 16th

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