The Rossini Auction House is organizing a photography sale from fifty photographers in partner with Nothing magazine and ArtDigiprint.
There is no longer any doubt that photojournalism entered into art history during the 20th century. Capa’s “The Falling Soldier”, Nick Ut’s “Napalm Girl”, and, closer to us, Hocine’s “Madonna of Benthala” are some milestones of this fine art revolution.
These icons, besides their fantastic emotional impact, fit all the criteria of major art work. Their bias, their construction, their expressiveness, their beauty (often brutal), propelled them into the pantheon of our “imaginary museums”.
Collectors, in their frenzied search for a precursory art, did not always know how to spot the heroic figure, although at the forefront for almost a century, of the Photojournalist. It is not too late to judge them properly.
That is the object of this sale, through which the Rossini Auction House wishes to pay tribute to these artists creating images of their time, even if many among them would fiercely refuse this “admission to the Academy”.
Pascale Marchandet
Pascale Marchandet is an auctioneer at Rossini.
Rossini Auction
Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 2 p.m.
Rossini Auction House
7 rue Rossini
75009 Paris
France
Public Exhibitions :
Thursday 26 and Friday 27, January, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
