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This article was first published on January 9, 2011 Even though titled The 3 Boys from Pasadena, the exhibition at Clic Gallery in New York is about 5 people, 5 very special people. Back in 1979, Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis while students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California hiked to Los Angeles Beverly Hills Hotel to meet with Helmut Newton. Eventually, the 3…
I met June and Helmut in 1978 when I was a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. If it were not for June and some persistence, I would never had had the opportunity to assist for Helmut in Los Angeles. As the story goes, Mark Arbeit, Just Loomis, and I were camped out in front of their room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She opened the…
In the beginning when I first started assisting Helmut in 1979, Helmut asked if I would like to assisting June (Alice Springs). Like an idiot I said no, and this was one of my big regrets in life. It was not until later that I discovered what a talented portraitist June was. Through the years, traveling with Helmut and June I got to know June and witnessed what a witty,…
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from June 5th, 2021 to November 21st, 2021
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Our friend June…Helmut’s Eminence Grise.. June was an extraordinary woman and having known her from 1974 until now has been a great experience in my life. Mary Jane and I and Helmut and June would meet in many different places over the years. Monte Carlo, Palm Springs, New Orleans, Miami, New York, Paris, Le Muy, Hollywood, Berlin…always an adventure with a lot of laughs and some sad moments as well.…
WC of the world. In these intimate places discovered and frequented by force on numerous trips around the world, it was not the object's primary function that mattered to me. Beyond this, I retained the elaborate design of the sanitary furniture, the structured graphics of the floors and walls which often highlight the object itself. Out of the hundred urinals that I have been able to photograph since the early…
Build your cabin. Until recently, when I went for a walk in the forest, in the woods or along a GR, I did not see them or at least I did not pay attention to them. These piles of dead branches usually heaped up against a tree, these construction sketches did not speak to me. But one day, stumbling upon one of them that looked like an ancient chariot collapsed…
ON / OFF I was brought to the fair as a young child, and these memories are both fascinating and melancholic. I have been shooting fairs for the past five or six years, all around France. My feelings towards fairs are still unchanged, partly fascinated by lights like a night butterfly, and partly sad when all attractions are still, under maintenance or being dismantled. It is this duality, inherent in…
Influence All our life we adhere to ideas or movements in order to grow and develop our own character and identity. The influence that we experience whether it is family or our society is the natural passage of its own formation. Cubism has always impressed me, this movement that was put forward by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque has served me for my creativity. Today I look at these paintings…
The Hill of Eden I often find myself peering into the hills of Emilia Romagna. I can see the soft shapes from above with my gaze and I cut out portions of them with my camera. Francesco Mercadante https://www.facebook.com/francesco.mercadante.104 http://www.francescomercadante.com/
Daily Routine I started this project about a year and a half ago wishing to express my state of mind and although the emotions it evokes seems to naturally fit in these Coronavirus times they are not exclusive to them. I found myself immersed in my daily routines, stuck in a perpetual cycle, not necessarily bad or agonizing, not without happiness, but stuck nonetheless. It can be very lonely in…
Arrangements My current series Arrangements explores the beauty of what is discarded through the recomposition of spent bouquets, as bouquets have a special symbolism used to mark our rituals of goodwill even when they are meant as condolences. They bring out our deliberate desire to create beauty and symmetry as gifts, underscoring the best of our humanity. The symbolism of flowers in combination with their fleeting grace is a poignant…
Galerie XII Los Angeles presents the solo exhibition of Mona Kuhn: Works, a career retrospective. The exhibition, which runs from April 10 to May 29, 2021, coincides with the launch of Mona Kuhn's first monograph, "Works" (Thames&Hudson). Mona Kuhn: Works is the first career retrospective of the great contemporary photographer Mona Kuhn.This new volume features images from throughout Kuhn’s career, including previously unseen work, and will introduce her distinct aesthetic…
"Isn't art used to collect what fall between the cracks, now that scientific knowledge has got rid of god?" Hiroshi sugimoto The Marian Goodman Gallery presents Theory of Colors, Hiroshi Sugimoto's third solo exhibition in Paris, where we can discover his new series "Opticks". The “Opticks” (2018) are the photographic transcription of colors revealed by the passage of light through an optical glass prism. The title of this series refers to…
It’s taken yoga several thousand years to journey from a handful of monasteries dotting the Himalayas to the myriad studios of London, Lower Manhattan, and beyond. Whether bathing with holy men in the Ganges or joining the chorus of a thousand voices chanting “om,” photographer Michael O’Neill decided to devote himself to experiencing and recording the world of yoga at this critical juncture in its history. The result is a powerful photographic…
"I started the Floating Garden series in the summer of 2019. It all began with a single rose. The rose my daughter received for her 18th birthday. This rose prompted me to think about youth, beauty, transience… I wanted somehow to preserve it from decay, so without much planning and thinking, I put it in the water and iced it. After a while, it came to me how to shoot…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle We find ourselves once again with a new expression, out of nowhere and which has absolutely no relation to the associated definitions of its two components. I will disappoint a lot of you; but, a true artificial intelligence still does not exist in the state of our actual knowledge. It is "butter on a skewer" as our grandmothers used to say to underline an antinomy finishing…
Christophe Guye Galerie present Ola Kolehmainen's newly updated artist page with a selection of his finest available works. The page contains six different series – Back to Square Black, MVSEVM, Sacred Places, Cathedral of Light, Geometric Light and Earlier works – with five of them being presented for the first time via the gallery. Ola Kolehmainen is a contemporary Finnish photographer, known for his large-scaled color photographs. Kolehmainen's artistic…
After the effervescence and the beautiful madness in 2019 of the 25th anniversary of the Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale which brought together more than a hundred international artists in Niort, in 2020 the soufflé fell to its lowest point with the postponement of the totality of the 2020 Meetings in 2021 because of this damn Covid-19. So it's a somewhat special 2021 edition this year. The programming largely resumes…
