Emil Cadoo, self portrait, c.1960

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Art, Pride, and the Rainbow Flag". Getty Iris. 8 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Emil Cadoo: Works from the Sixties – Evergreen Review". evergreenreview.com.
  3. Company, Johnson Publishing (5 September 1968). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company.
  4. 1 2 "Layers of naked beauty from Cadoo". www.standard.co.uk. 5 April 2012.
  5. The Publishers Weekly. F. Leypoldt. 1964.
  6. Press, Grove (2001). The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-3780-7.
  7. "This week's art world news". The Guardian. 3 April 2009.
  8. Wolff, Laetitia (October 2007). Massin. Ediz. Inglese. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4811-2.
  9. "Emil Cadoo (American, 1926 - 2002) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  10. "Marc ca. 1966". www.metmuseum.org.
  11. "Emil Cadoo: James Baldwin". mfah.org.


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