Erica Lennard, who has traveled all over the world, immortalized for more than thirty years, the gardens of many cultures: European classical gardens of the seventeenth and eighteenth century (Versailles, gardens of the Villa d’Este), the gardens of Buddhist temples, or Japanese shrines, to create a full-fledged work grouped in her many books: Classical Gardens, Gardens of the World, Artists ‘Gardens, Writers’ Houses. Her way of looking at women is also unique and We meet women muses through her different series Women, sisters and her portraits.
Suspended time or respite in Erica Lennard’s photography
In the preface to Classical Gardens William Howard Adams evokes the ephemeral theatricality of European gardens frozen in time that Erica Lennard was able to grasp. She creates a suspended time that can be found in all her photographic writing. In the same way, Marguerite Duras in the book devoted to the series Les femmes les soeurs tells us about evanescent characters and places: “… the inscription of a latent tragedy, always, in each photo is there, in the sky above women, the sea. Space is always a space of relative suspended travel. ”
Thus, whether through her portraits of women, her gardens, or her ruins, Erica Lennard’s journey is a finely tuned balance between eternal youth, fragility or tragedy.
A career in fashion
The artist, who was one of the first women photographers of fashion in the 1970s, has worked with such iconic personalities as Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Jeanne Moreau, Jane Birkin, Marguerite Duras, Amira Casar, is known for her photographic writing, tinged with sweetness, poetry, and timeless modernity. She has worked for publications such as Vogue, Marie-Claire, Elle and Interview Magazine.
Galerie Agathe Gaillard pays her tribute and proposes an exhibition of encounters between theatrical nature and deified women.
Poetic Gardens – Erica Lennard
September 26 – November 1
Agathe Gaillard Gallery
3 rue du Pont Louis-Philippe,
75004 Paris
