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.
An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century's most influential photographers
For more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of the people he photographed. From his earliest years at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue through to the twenty-first century, Avedon routinely and audaciously broke the rule of flattering public personalities in his portraits. Instead, he chose to highlight the onslaught of what he called the «avalanche of age,» dramatizing the universal experience of getting older.
Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Immortal is the first book to delve into Avedon's unflinching representation of aging throughout his career.
This elegant hardcover volume features nearly 100 portraits of cultural luminaries, each printed in striking tritone, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp, Duke Ellington, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, and Stephen Sondheim, as well as one of Avedon's last self-portraits. Texts by a star-studded cohort of authors, including Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik, Paul Roth, and Gaëlle Morel, shed new light on an under-represented element of Avedon's practice.
Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced, Immortal testifies emphatically to the determination with which people confront the relentless advance of mortality.
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.
Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper's Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russian-born photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971), best known for his art directorship of the American fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar between 1934 and 1958, as well as his tutelage of many celebrated documentary and fashion photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Eve Arnold, and Lillian Bassman. Though disparate in their aesthetic approaches, these figures are unified by their responses to Brodovitch's dictum to «astonish me.» The authors address Brodovitch's impact on photography as an artistic medium in the mid-twentieth century and explore how European art and design became the foundation of a new American print culture. Brodovitch's own work will be illuminated through his personal projects-such as the magazine Portfolio and the photographic project Ballet, which depicted performances of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the United States (whose evolution echoed Brodovitch's own émigré condition). Case studies of his transformative collaborations with photographers such as Arnold, Avedon, Penn, Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hans Namuth, and André Kertész reveal pivotal encounters that may surprise even the most ardent photography aficionado. An illustrated chronology offers an important tool for scholars on this influential but often overlooked figure.
Distributed for the Barnes Foundation
Exhibition Schedule:
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
(March 3-May 19, 2024)
Un tatouage, c'est un signe, un symbole, une amulette vivante que l'on porte indéfectiblement sur son corps, comme un gage 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. Cet ouvrage présente l'histoire du tatouage, une description détaillée des techniques anciennes et modernes, ainsi qu'un vaste panel de motifs : simples ou sophistiqués, figuratifs ou symboliques, unicolores ou bigarrés.
Pour chacun de ces tatouages, vous trouverez un historique et la signification associée.
Un tatouage, c'est un signe, un symbole, une amulette vivante que l'on porte indéfectiblement sur son corps, comme un gage 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. Cet ouvrage présente l'histoire du tatouage, une description détaillée des techniques anciennes et modernes, ainsi qu'un vaste panel de motifs : simples 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.
Une présentation des usages traditionnels du tatouage à travers le monde, et des techniques contemporaines, des conseils pour choisir un tatoueur, un tatouage et son emplacement, et un répertoire de motifs classés par thème : magie, animaux, zodiaque, etc.
