Showing posts with label Michael Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Jackson. Show all posts

03/03/11

Henry Leutwyler Photographs of Michael Jackson’s items at Foley Gallery, NYC

Exhibition: Henry Leutwyler
Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson
Foley Gallery, New York
Through April 2, 2011

Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson, on view at Foley Gallery in New York, is an exhibition of color photographs by HENRY LEUTWYLER featuring the personal belongings of the late Michael Jackson.

As a portrait photographer, Leutwyler has always been interested in investigating the stories told by the artifacts that make up people’s lives. In 2009, Neverland Ranch was packed and crated in preparation for a public auction of Michael Jackson’s possessions. Leutwyler was sent to California to photograph the iconic studded white glove and spent three days sifting through more than a thousand items. In the end it took a second trip back to the warehouse in April 2009 to complete the entire story.

The photographs, many of which are staged on a simple black background, range from bejeweled costumes to a storage box lid filled with small Wizard of Oz figurines. It’s the simplicity of his artifacts that capture the life of the King of Pop the public never saw. As Leutwyler puts it: "It is said that the Pharaohs built tombs to reveal their lives to future generations. Michael Jackson sacrificed his childhood to the calling of his musical gift. Neverland was the pyramid he constructed to a lost childhood."

Swiss born, HENRY LEUTWYLER is an internationally acclaimed and award winning photographer. A creative force in Paris for a decade, he moved to New York City in 1996, where he lives with his wife and two children. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Esquire.

 

Henry Leutwyler, Nerverland Lost, Steidl, 2010 

HENRY LEUTWYLER
NEVERLAND LOST:
A PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL JACKSON
Published by Steidl, 2010
Hardcover, 8 x 11 inches, 96 pages

FOLEY GALLERY
548 W 28th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

2011 Season at Foley Gallery

Brian Ormond, IIIII, January 11 - February 19, 2011
Henry Leutwyler, Neverland Lost:  A Portrait of Michael Jackson, Feb 24 - April 2, 2011
Hikari Shimoda, April 7 - May 7, 2011
Edward Mapplethorpe, May 12 - June 18, 2011

www.foleygallery.com

07/10/10

Arno Bani : Photos de Michael Jackson inédites - Vente aux enchères organisée par Pierre Bergé & Associés

Le 13 décembre 2010, Pierre Bergé & Associés organisera une vente aux enchères exceptionnelle de portraits inédits de Michael Jackson à l'Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild.

 

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© Pierre Bergé & Associés, 2010. Courtesy PBA

 

Ces photographies du roi de la pop sont le résultat d’une aventure extraordinaire vécue par un jeune photographe de mode français : Arno Bani, à qui la star a exceptionnellement confié son image.

Arno Bani, entièrement libre dans la production de cette séance, a ainsi créé 4 scénarii artistiques différents et choisi les plus grands professionnels de la mode pour travailler avec lui : Yves Saint Laurent, François Lesage, Topolino, Seb Bascle, Jérôme Dreyfuss, Frédérique Lorca et Maïda, etc.

Lors de cette vente, seront soumis aux enchères 12 portraits uniques jamais dévoilés à ce jour, numérotés 1/1, et toutes les planches contacts de cette séance photos, dont celles sélectionnées par Michael Jackson lui-même.

On peut penser que cette vente aux enchères organisée par Pierre Bergé & Associés rencontrera un vif intérêt auprès des collectionneurs mais aussi des fans de la pop star.

Le catalogue de cette vente est disponible ce mois-ci en co-édition avec les Editions du Chêne (Groupe Hachette Livre) et distribué à l’international.

Parallèlement, un coffret luxe en édition limitée avec tirages photographiques a été réalisé.


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