Paul Outerbridge was once a major force in photography, straddling the worlds of commerce and art. But he died in obscurity in 1958. See more of his pioneering images:
“Ide Collar,” 1922.
Born to a wealthy family in New York City, Outerbridge began his formal study of photography in 1921, after a stint in the Army and a failed attempt at a Hollywood acting career. A year later, his black-and-white still-life of a shirt collar—an elegant triumph of angles and curves, in which ordinary drifts into strange—was published in. Marcel Duchamp was so impressed with the image that he tore the page from the magazine and pinned it to his studio wall.
For decades, there was an inviolable rule in camera-arts connoisseurship: color was vulgar. As the Museum of Modern Art’s legendary photography curator John Szarkowski wrote, “Professionals used color when they were paid to, doing their very best without knowing quite what they meant by that. Considering the lack of enthusiasm and confidence with which most ambitious photographers have regarded color, it is not surprising that most work in the medium has been puerile.
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