The story of Scott Fitzgerald, writer and symbol of the jazz age, the incredible photographic innovations of David Douglas Duncan and the American art photography auctioned by Christie's in New York are the main dish of this weekend of FIRST Arte, the site promoted by FIRSTonline and dedicated to the world of art and cultural news.
Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary human and artistic adventure seems to be made to excite the reader. “Sometimes I wonder if Zelda and I are real people or are we characters in one of my novels” wrote the writer when he was beginning to achieve success and to embody an era. Like The Great Gasby, his most famous novel which was also very successful in its film version, Fitzgerald was in love with life and "it was as if he were endlessly planning new delights, books to read and places to see". It is no coincidence that the expression "hero à la Fitzgerald" means a person surrounded by a romantic aura with a bewitching charm like the one the writer had. In his life, which was not always easy, Fitzgerald wrote a total of 160 stories, including some of the most beautiful in American reading.
The story of David Douglas Duncan is also fascinating, one of the greatest photographers of Life magazine in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, a great friend of Pablo Picasso, and above all the inventor of a new photographic technique that transformed each image into a shocking picture through the lens .
Still on the subject of photography, FIRST Arte dedicates an in-depth look at the Christie's auction in New York dedicated to American fine art photography and centered on a collection that includes rare examples of works by important figures of the Photo Secession, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence White, Alfred Stieglitz and numerous early American modernist masterpieces by Edward Weston and Paul Strand.
This and much more on FIRST Arte, which can be consulted for free throughout the summer.
