Name/Title
Portraits in lace : Breton womenEntry/Object ID
N9500.F74.P67Description
Here is a unique illustrated study of a centuries-old costume tradition that continues to thrive in Brittany today. Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive. Each costume and headdress may indicate a wearer's village, as well as age or status. They are worn for celebrations of a marriage, birth, or a local saint's day, or to mark a period of mourning. Against a translucent gauze backdrop, young girls, women both married and unmarried, mothers, sisters and grandmothers pose in costume for these photographic portraits. Over fifty headdresses are introduced and described in a separate reference section, accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations. Fréger's exceptional photographs demonstrate a wealth of pride and personal expression that make this book a unique testament to a living tradition.Lexicon
Search Terms
artist monographs, caps (headgear), clothing and dress--france, headgear, lace and lace making, photography--artistic, portrait photographyBook Details
Author
Charles Fréger, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann GuesdonPublisher
Thames & HudsonDate Published
2015Call No.
N9500.F74.P67ISBN
500517991, 9780500517994LCCN
2015931898Notes
Length: 251