The French graphic designer Massin is best known in this country for his ground-breaking typographic and visual treatment of the Eugene Ionesco play "The Bald Soprano" ("La Cantatrice Chauve"), first published in France by Gallimard in 1964. Massin's interpretation of Ionesco's absurdist play was ground-breaking: Using a playful collage of posterized black-and-white photographs of the actors in silhouette, surrounded by sprays and cascades of type in varying sizes and styles (without benefit of cartoonish effects like word balloons), he created a juxtaposition of type and image in book form that became a classic of expressive typography. The stark images from "The Bald Soprano" are instantly recognizable -- both the characters and their jumbled words.
Robert Massin, Typographic interpretation of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, 1964
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