Maurice Tabard Art
French, 1897-1984
At an early age, Maurice Tabard studied fabric design at his father's silk manufacturing plant in France. The family relocated to the United States for his father's work and Tabard studied photography at the New York Institute of Photography. He returned to France in the late 1920s and continued his experimentation with double exposures and solarization techniques, producing surrealist portraits, and still lives. Tabard worked in the fashion, advertising and portrait photography industries from 1928-1938. Most of his work, including his entire negative archive, was lost during WWII. Tabard retired in 1965 and moved to Nice in 1980.1
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Artist: Maurice Tabard
Portrait of Roger Parry
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9 x 7 inches
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Roger Parry learned photography from Maurice Tabard by working as his studio assistant in 1928. In 1929 the...
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