Hoaxes, humbugs and spectacles : astonishing photographs of smelt wrestlers, human projectiles, giant hailstones, contortionists, elephant impersonators, and much, much more!
Auteurs : Sloan, Mark (Auteur) ; Manley, Roger (Collaborateur) ; Van Parys, Michelle (Collaborateur) ; Blount, Roy (Préfacier)
Lieu de publication : New York
Éditeur : Villard Books
Date de publication : 1990
ISBN : 0-394-58511-9
Langue : Anglais
Description : 162 p. : princ. ill. ; 25 cm.
Sujets :
Artistes de cirque - Photographies
Histoire du cirque - États-Unis
Forains - Photographies
Résumé :
Featuring more than 150 black-and-white photographs, 'Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles' is a vintage collection of bizarre, unusual, and humorous pictures that explore the universal human interest in spectacle. For four years Mark Sloan traveled across America-on a proverbial shoestring-unearthing everything from tiny tin-types sold in the nineteenth century as souvenirs to previously unprinted promotional pictures of circus performers (found hidden in a box beneath somebody's bed) to a bundle of news photos rescued from the Denver Post's dumpster. These pictures, which date from the 1840s to the 1950s are like the treasures in a time capsule-years later they have the same power to amuse, amaze, and entertain. [editor summary]
Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque
Localisation : Bibliothèque
Cote : 779.949 791 3 S6341h 1990