Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Karl Lagerfeld, Albert Watson, Norman Parkinson, Helmut Newton … all the great masters are there, gathered to celebrate the inauguration of the Photo Department of the Collin du Bocage auction house.
All have conquered the contemporary art market.
Some like Irving Penn are among the most coveted photographers, others like Karl Lagerfeld have become experts who were asked for their visionary vision as was the case in Paris Photo. Still others, like Richard Avedon, are just legends whose prints are frightening. “A portrait,” he said, “is not a resemblance. Once an emotion or fact is translated into a photo, it ceases to be a fact to become an opinion. The inaccuracy does not exist in photography. All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. “.
Emotion, that’s what it’s all about!
If this sale is exceptional, it is because it is mainly made up of often unpublished works by collectors or private individuals invited to give up some of their treasures. It was necessary to know them well, to be part of the seraglio of this small and great world of photography.
For their new department, Olivier Collin du Bocage and his partner, Eléonore Chalmin, have entrusted the mission of research and selection of prints to a man to whom we can not say no, whose photo is an integral part of his life, to the agent, the coordinator, the advisor, the virtuoso Denis Taranto!
He added the effective complicity of the photographer and artistic director Brice Hardelin.
In this way, the prints of the great masters of photography have gradually become part of one of the most impressive sales catalogs.
PHOTO is very proud to be a partner of this event which takes place in the excitement of Paris Photo. These are the photographers who made our magazine what it is today, the reference.
This sale offers you the opportunity to acquire overwhelming, extraordinary, heritage, passion!
Do not hesitate: “The photos are there, and you just have to take them. As Robert Capa said, who will forgive me, I hope, to turn his remarks aside for the occasion.
Agnès Grégoire, Editorial Director of PHOTO magazine
Sale
FOCUS
Grans Masters of 20th Century Photography
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 18h
Etude 17
17 rue de Provence
75009 Paris
Public exhibitions:
Saturday 9 November 10h-12h30 and 13h-19h
Tuesday, November 12 10h-12h30 and 14h-18h
Wednesday, November 13 10h-12h30 and 14h-16h
