Kelly Klein

A collection of beautiful images of pools sourced from famous European and American photographers and signed by the book's author.

• Writer & editor Kelly Klein (American)
• New York: Knopf, 1992.
• Illustrated thoroughly and with foldout images.
• In original pictorial dust jacket.

Pools. The celebration of style, design, joyfulness. Lap pools, cascading pools, banjo-shaped pools, Roman pools and more. The pool seen as sculpture, as architecture, as gathering place, as art-seductive, dreamlike, romantic. Pools, in all shapes, sizes, colors and settings, from Tangiers and Miami to the ancient magnificence of Hadrian's Villa, from Coney Island to the Côte d'Azur, from the robber baron 1880s through the present. Pools in period photographs and in fashion and design photographs from the twenties, thirties, forties and fifties. Pools seen by the great photographers: Lartigue, Stieglitz, Munkacsi, Weston, Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, et al. Here are pools on the great ocean liners, pools by celebrated architects, pools filled with giant, inflatable monsters.

In her research to discover the perfect pool for herself, the author finds the romance and art throughout the years surrounding these famous pools from around the world. Many of the photographs were taken by renowned photographers, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Stieglitz, Martin Munkacsi, Edward Weston, Bruce Weber and Jacques Henri-Lartigue, to name but a few. Out of print and very collectible.