As we were working on this article on his exhibition at the Galerie de L’Instant, we learned that Bert Stern had just passed away (see above). This exhibition will give the opportunity to discover whole of Bert’s work that had a tendency to be reduced to his pictures of Marilyn.
But he was also a filmmaker and if you have a chance to find “Jazz on a Summer’s day” realised during the jazz festival of Newport in 1958 you will discover a real treasure.
Bert Stern might be best known as the photographer on the legendary “last sessions” with Marilyn Monroe. He is also one of the greatest portrait photographers of his generation alongside Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. This exhibition aims to show the public another side of this talented photographer through his fascinating pictures and the stories behind them, including portraits of Kate Moss, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Audrey Hepburn in Paris, Romy Schneider/Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Twiggy, Madonna and, of course, Marilyn. A number of these photographs are being exhibited for the first time.
Read the full article on the French version of Le Journal.
Julia Gragnon
Bert Stern: Portraits and stories
From July 11th to September 25th, 2013
Galerie de l’Instant
46 rue de Poitou
75003 Paris
France
tél : 01 44 54 94 09
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 7pm & Sunday 2.30pm – 6.30pm
