Seydou Keita

Masters of Photography

Group exhibition

23/10/2009

16/01/2010

Gallery FIFTY ONE

We all carry a vast visual library of images engraved in our heads: one could refer to it as a ‘Musée Imaginaire’ as André Malraux called it. Thanks to photography, we are able to create a visual and virtual museum. We collect artworks from their photographic reproductions in various artbooks and magazines and visualize them in our private museum. Some artistic photographs have become iconic images in this way, carried preciously in our mind and head. These are the well-known photographs from the masters of the 20th en 21st century photography; all of them pioneering and groundbreaking photographers – the medium’s innovators and pioneers –.

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Arnold Newman - Piet Mondriaan, New York, 1942
Arnold Newman - Piet Mondriaan, New York, 1942
Diane Arbus - A Woman in a Bird Mask, NYC, 1967
Diane Arbus - A Woman in a Bird Mask, NYC, 1967
Frank Horvat - Paris Champs-Elyseés C, 1956
Frank Horvat - Paris Champs-Elyseés C, 1956
Duane Michals - Portraits of the Artists Made with the Artists Own Dandruff in the Manner of Vik Muniz-Jeff Koons, 2001
Duane Michals - Portraits of the Artists Made with the Artists Own Dandruff in the Manner of Vik Muniz-Jeff Koons, 2001

Artists on view Masters of Photography

Irving Penn, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Seydou Keita, Arnold Newman, Richard Avedon and Cindy Sherman

Irving Penn, Anemone Coronaria, Inra Blue, New York, 2006.jpg
Irving Penn, Small Waist, New York, 2000
Irving Penn, Theater Accident Photo
Irving Penn, Cigarette n° 355, New York, 1972
Saul Leiter, Taxi, 1956
Ray K. Metzker, Philadelphia 1962
Stephen Shore, Ginger Seippel, Miami, Florida, November 12, 1977