Emil Cadoo

American photographer

Emil J. Cadoo (1926–2002) was an American photographer.

Early life

Following World War II, Cadoo used the GI bill to study Romance languages at Brooklyn College.^[1] He later worked as a photojournalist.^[1] Cadoo moved to Paris in the early 1960s.^[1]^[2] In Paris he worked as a photojournlist for the French magazine Realites, and experimented in theater by writing a script.^[3]

Career

Cadoo is known for his multiple exposure works, which were achieved both with in-camera and darkroom techniques.^[1]^[2]^[4] He often photographed nudes.^[4]

In 1964, the Evergreen Review published a series of his nude photos in the April–May edition. 21,000 copies of the magazine were subsequently seized by the Nassau County, New York vice squad.^[5] The seizure was later deemed "unconstitutional" by three federal court judges, and all of the magazines were returned.^[6]

Cadoo is known also for his photographs of Edith Piaf, who said of him that he was "not a photographer, but a poet with a camera".^[7]^[8]

His work is included in the collections of the Getty Museum,^[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[10] and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Art, Pride, and the Rainbow Flag". Getty Iris. 8 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Emil Cadoo: Works from the Sixties – Evergreen Review". evergreenreview.com.
^ Company, Johnson Publishing (5 September 1968). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company.
^ ^a ^b "Layers of naked beauty from Cadoo". www.standard.co.uk. 5 April 2012.
^ The Publishers Weekly. F. Leypoldt. 1964.
^ Press, Grove (2001). The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-3780-7.
^ "This week's art world news". The Guardian. 3 April 2009.
^ Wolff, Laetitia (October 2007). Massin. Ediz. Inglese. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4811-2.
^ "Emil Cadoo (American, 1926 - 2002) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
^ "Marc ca. 1966". www.metmuseum.org.
^ "Emil Cadoo: James Baldwin". mfah.org.