Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) fut danseuse, photographe, styliste et sculptrice mais surtout l'un des mannequins les plus emblématiques de l'univers de la mode du XXème siècle.
Elle travailla avec les plus grands photographes de mode de son époque de 1935 à 1955 : Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Fernand Fonssagrives, Toni Frissel, Horst P. Horst dont elle fut la mannequin favorite, George Hoyningen-Huene, Frances Mclaughlin-Gill, Irving Penn, Georges Platt-Lynes, John Rowlings, etc.
Elle sera la première mannequin à faire la couverture du magazine Time en septembre 1949.
Épouse d'Irving Penn de 1950 jusqu'à sa disparition en 1992, elle fut selon Alexander Liberman, directeur artistique du magazine Vogue, le sujet de ses plus grandes photographies.
L'exposition à la MEP présentera environ 150 tirages originaux d'époque, issus de sa collection personnelle.
Certaines de ces images ont été publiées dans Vogue France, Vogue US ou Harper's Bazaar et beaucoup sont inédites, dont un grand nombre de photos de Fernand Fonssagrives son premier mari, et des portraits plus privées réalisés par Irving Penn.
Une collection intime et étonnante, dont la plupart des tirages sont révélés au grand public pour la première fois.
Physique showcases over 250 rare physique photography prints from the private collection of renowned critic and curator Vince Aletti. Spanning the 1950s to the early 1980s, these photographs chronicle a hidden, coded world of homoerotic imagery. Once sold discreetly through mail-order catalogues and underground physique magazines, the prints point to an emergent queer sensibility and visibility. Accompanying this visual archive is a personal essay by Aletti which traces the historical and political significance of these images, firmly establishing their place in the canon of photography. He celebrates the artistry of the photographers, models, and studios that brought the photographs to life. Physique reveals a forgotten chapter of American gay culture in which photographic prints served as a lifeline, connecting a community of men under threat while also providing solace, pleasure, and empowerment amid oppression.
Un tatouage, c'est un signe, un symbole, une amulette vivante que l'on porte indéfectiblement sur son corps, comme un gage d'amour et d'éternité. Cette pratique ancestrale constitue à la fois un rite de passage, une célébration, un acte esthétique indiquant, par la seule force du tracé, la marque visible d'une identité.
Tatouages - Techniques anciennes et leurs symboliques présente l'histoire du tatouage, une description détaillée des techniques anciennes et modernes, ainsi qu'un vaste panel de motifs en tout genre : simple ou sophistiqués, figuratifs ou symboliques, unicolores ou bigarrés. Pour chacun de ces tatouages, vous trouverez un historique et la signification associée.
Un livre indispensable à tous les amateurs de tatouage et de beauté.
In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs across the US (such as Larry Levan, Larry Sanders, Walter Gibbons, Tee Scott and Nicky Siano) alongside Aletti's own writings and interviews.
As disco grew from an underground secret to a billion-dollar industry, Aletti was there to document it, and The Disco Files is his personal memoir of those days, containing everything he wrote on the subject (most of it between 1974 and1978) augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the DJs, and above all, the music, through magazine articles, beautiful photographs, hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews.
Photocopies of Aletti's Record World columns circulated for years among DJs and music lovers, until they were finally collected in 2009 into the first edition of The Disco Files, an instant classic that quickly sold out. This new edition of The Disco Files brings Aletti's compulsively readable disco writing back into print, adding an interview with Fran Lebowitz originally published in the Village Voice in 1990.
Throughout his career, curator, writer and critic Vince Aletti (born 1945) has been at the forefront of music, culture and the arts. He wrote for Record World and Rolling Stone and covered the club scene in the late 1970s and 1980s for the Village Voice, where he would serve as art editor until 2005. In addition to curating numerous photography exhibitions, Aletti writes about photography for the New Yorker
For nearly a century, fashion magazines have provided sophisticated platforms for cutting- edge photography - work that challenges conventions and often reaches far beyond fashion itself. In this book, acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from his expansive personal archive, revealing images by photographers rarely seen outside their original context. With his characteristic élan and featuring stunning images, Aletti has created a fresh, idiosyncratic, and previously unexplored angle on the history of photography.
