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MARILYN MONROE 90th Anniversary. A Life in Pictures
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VINCENT PETERS In The Lights
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THE HILTON BROTHERS WE THE PEOPLE
"There is a crack in everything... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
...that's how the light gets in" -Leonard Cohen
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MARILYN M O N R O E
90th Anniversary. A Life in Pictures 4 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 galerie hiltawsky, Berlin
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Bernard of Hollywood Marilyn Monroe, from the movie 7 year itch, 1954 Š Bernard of Hollywood Courtesy: in focus Galerie
Bernard of Hollywood Marilyn Monroe, 1946 Š Bernard of Hollywood Courtesy: in focus Galerie
Starting on November 4, 2016 the Berlin based galerie hiltawsky will present the exhibition Marilyn Monroe. 90th Anniversary. A Life in Pictures.
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The group exhibition showcases approx. 70 photographs, including some very rare images. Among them are an early photograph of a Valentine's Day chocolate advertisement, Norma Jeane's first cover photo for a U.S. magazine (Romance), the legendary "flying skirt" (by Elliott Erwitt and Bernard of Hollywood) for the film "The Seven Year Itch" and virtually unknown, very private photographs of Marilyn Monroe with the notable American writer Carl Sandburg by Arnold Newman and images of the legendary pool scene by Lawrence Schiller.
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Ed Clark Marilyn Monroe 1950s Š Ed Clark Courtesy: galerie hiltawsky
Marilyn Monroe (*June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptismal name Norma Jeane Baker; †August 5, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles) was a U.S.-American actress, model, singer, and film producer. In the 1950s, she gained international acclaim as a movie star, later becoming an icon of the silver screen and a sex symbol of the 20th century.
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Bernard of Hollywood Marilyn Monroe at the studio, 1951 Š Bernard of Hollywood Courtesy: in focus Galerie
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Andre de Dienes Marilyn Monroe, 1952 Š Andre de Dienes Courtesy: galerie hiltawsky
A catalog with more than 100 pages and around 70, mostly full-page illustrations with a text by Andreas J. Mueller, director of the Deutsches Fotomuseum in Leipzig-Markkleeberg will accompany the exhibition.
19 MARILYN MONROE 90TH ANNIVERSARY. A LIFE IN PICTURES Duration 4 November 2016 14 January 2017 Location galerie hiltawsky, Tucholskystrasse 41, 10117 Berlin
October - 13 November 2016 IMMAGIS Fine Art Photography, Munich
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Vincent Peters | Emma Watson | London, 2015 |
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VINCENT P E T E R S IN THE LIGHT
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Following the popular success of Vincent Peters's exhibition "In the Light" in France, Belgium, Austria, and Berlin, the Munich-based gallery IMMAGIS is presenting an excerpt from his newest book Personal together with other glamorous and romantic photographs by the artist, from October 14th, 2016. With some 20 large-format photographs, the Bremen-born photographer demonstrates his wide repertoire and his newest homage to female beauty at this gallery located in the heart of Munich's museum quarter.
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Vincent Peters | Irina Shayk | Madrid, 2011 | from the book Personal | Photo Š Vincent Peters
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Vincent Peters | PenÊlope Cruz | Madrid, 2015 | from the book Personal | Photo Š Vincent Peters
For more than 20 years, Vincent Peters has ranked among the top international photographers, working since 1995 for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, NumĂŠro, The Face, GQ, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar. His work has also been commissioned by numerous worldwide renowned luxury brands, including Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent.
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His distinctive style, of sensitive, classic photos, is in equally high demand for celebrities, fashion, and advertising photography. Using minimal resources, he creates dramatic images that look like stills from an imaginary film, evoking scenes captured by the great Hollywood studio photographer, George Hurrell. His first book, The Light Between Us, was published in 2014, presenting a collection of his best images of actors, models, and musicians. Now with Personal, he turns his attention to his favorite subject: women. Here, we encounter stars such as PenĂŠlope Cruz, Emma Watson, and Irina Shayk, along with lesser known beauties, posed partially nude in delicate ballet costumes, or leaning alluringly over a balcony, and always enveloped in Peter's fabulous lighting.
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Vincent Peters | Nude | Ivry-sur-Seine, 2015 | from the book Personal | Photo Š Vincent Peters
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Vincent Peters | Nude | Ivry-sur-Seine, 2015 | from the book Personal | Photo Š Vincent Peters
Vincent Peters lives and works in Paris and New York. More information under: www.vincentpetersphotography.com
About IMMAGIS Fine Art Photography: The gallery IMMAGIS was founded in 2009 by Kathrin Köhler in Würzburg, Germany and specializes in contemporary photographic art. IMMAGIS stands for excellent, classic, and extravagant positions from the international photography scene; from the world's leading photographers to emerging young talents. In addition to its ongoing exhibition program, in 2012 the gallery developed and launched the contest "Entrepreneur 4.0 - Portraying Visions", a photographic exploration of societal changes sparked by the fourth industrial revolution and the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the future. More information under: www.immagis.de and www.unternehmer4punkt0.de
VINCENT PETERS: IN THE LIGHT IMMAGIS Fine Art Photography, Blütenstrasse 1, 80799 Munich www.immagis.de
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The Hilton Brothers use their cameras as their paintbrush, as much as to document; details of shadows and light, suggesting the ordinary as extraordinary. They open a new window on both familiar and unfamiliar worlds in their latest body of work, We the People. They thread parallels between China and N. America, moving and threading an often ironic narrative, moving from playful to mournful in one moment. The duo is asking questions about the meaning of "Progress".
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gives the viewer a unique glimpse into duo's 10 years on the road, with two reoccurring locations: China and Outwest USA. To Makos and Solberg, they are two paradoxical and magical places on Earth.
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is the most recent collaboration of Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg. These works explore the cultural dynamics of the relationship between America and China, the emerging great powers of the 21st century. Globalization, instant communications and social networking has brought East and West, old and new together in ways that have irrevocably changed both America and China.
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Makos and Solberg have spent the last years traveling extensively through both countries compiling a large body of photographic images of contemporary culture, people and the landscape. Through their collaborative process they merge diverse images into individual works of cohesive beauty and rich, subtly provocative content, which tells a unique story of what is progress and what is power.
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H W I eL T T O h Ne B RP Oe To H E eR S p l Warhol famously chose Mao for subject matter seeing in the revolutionary leader's Little Red book much that, on a superficial level, mirrored Warhol's own published philosophy. Young Chinese artists like Ai Weiwei, recognizing the dead-pan serious/not serious nature of Warhol's work as directly descended from Duchamp, embraced Warhol as a liberating figure, who allowed their own emerging artistic sensibilities to freely borrow from Western modern art in finding a new, global voice. Ai Weiwei came to use the formal visual vocabulary of contemporary Western art to address contemporary social issues in China. His use of ready-mades (an installation of brightly -colored children's knapsacks left outside the Munich Museum to weather, as a commentary on the tragic loss of life following a landslide in rural China that was thought to have been caused by poor land management policies).
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Ai Weiwei further developed his wry use of material by taking the "ready-made" concept a step further, (employing large groups of workers to hand craft and paint countless small ceramic items to exactly mimic beans), and thus engaging directly in the lives of contemporary Chinese workers. Wei's use of social media is among the earliest and remains among the most influential examples of how instant communication has become a force in in art culture, and politics.
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Makos and Solberg continue in this tradition of social comment on contemporary culture, how it is shaped, and how it affects our sense of self in a world where real American cowboys struggle to define themselves in a world of shrinking land and drought, and a growing Chinese middle class, through social media and travel becomes familiar with not only the uberAmerican brands of Marlboro, McDonalds and Coke, but of Uber itself, and America's bedrock "brand", democracy. In both America and China, traditional ideas of individualism and collectivism are evolving in the popular imagination and in governmental authorities' responses to global concerns.
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visually explores this rich cultural environment that is being shared, and influenced by its sharing, on social media, and traditional media, all of which is fast becoming available world-wide. These new works speak specifically to the dialogue between America and China, their peoples, traditions, and attitudes towards the past and the future.
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The photographic duo of Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, under the name The Hilton Brothers, is a successful example of art synergy, two American photographers that met each other in a bicycle in April 2004. Christopher is famous for his photographs of many celebrity icons, like Andy Warhol, while Paul grew up with a camera in his hands, began studying Anthropology in South Africa in his teens, which lead him to New York in his 20's, returning to the camera of his youth.
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From the moment they met, they realized that they were both interested in similar subject matters, and they decided to share their common photographic experience with the world. Being attracted by the 1930's, they chose for their creative collaboration the name The Hilton Brothers, out of Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of English conjoined twins who were famous song and dance stars in the 1920s and 1930s.
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With cameras in hand Christopher and Paul traveled to USA, Cairo, Saigon, Palermo, Lanzorate. They started their collaboration by sharing a limitless curiosity for everything that is interesting, putting ideas and experiences together, sharing the process of taking pictures of the same subjects. The result? A unique duo of visual storytellers that explore the freedom of collaboration, sharing at the same time a common vision through their pictures and collage.
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"The intensity of collaboration is matched only by the intensity of creation" Lou Reed, Tyrants + Lederhosen (2011)
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Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to New York after high school. He studied architecture in Paris and briefly worked as an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol, Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject, called Makos "the most modern photographer in America." His work is in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburg PA, and The National Collection of Spain.
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Makos' photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, The Tate Modern, London, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the IVAM, Valencia (Spain), and The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, including Paris Match, Interview, and The Wall Street Journal.
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He is the author of many books, including White Trash (1977), Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China 1982 (2007), Christopher Makos Polaroids (2009) and LADY WARHOL (2010). Makos lives in New York City. makostudio.com
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Paul Solberg (1969, Minnesota), before moving to NYC in 1996, studied Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and traveled extensively to Bophuthatswana, Namibia, and South America. Solberg began his photographic career with his first published book, Bloom (2005), following such titles as Tyrants + Lederhosen (2011), and Tattoos, Hornets & Fire (2012), and Ten Years in Pictures (2015).
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First known for his acclaimed still life portraits, the same depth is seen in his human subjects, such as the portrait of Ai Weiwei (2008), and in his haunting portraits of the Armed Forces, in Service (2010), which resides in such collections as the Elton John Photography Collection.
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Solberg's photographs have been published in Publisher's Weekly, Le Figaro, CNN, La Lettre, Interview Magazine, WSJ Int'l Edition, Conde Nast Traveler, The Huffington Post, and New York Daily News. Solberg's work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including: La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Subte Museum (Montevideo), Galerie Sho Contemporary Art (Tokyo), Galerie Hiltawsky (Berlin), Karl Hutter Fine Art (LA), Casa de Costa (NY), Peter Marcelle Project (NY) and Galerie Catherine Houard (Paris). Solberg lives in New York City. paulsolberg.com
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H W I eL T T O h Ne B RP Oe To H E eR S p l The Makos - Solberg collaboration, The Hilton Brothers (2004) is derived from the 1930's Siamese-twins vaudeville stars, the Hilton Sisters. These visual storytellers explore the freedom and parameters of collaboration, inspired by the ultimate collaboration, physical conjoinment. The Hilton Brothers are the emersion of two visual identities melding into a singular narrative; a shared language spoken through pictures. Blurring and fusing two disparate styles, each of their works subtly commenting on the world today, or escaping from it. Such examples are in their series, "Speed" (2006), "Andy Dandy" (2007), and "Narrative" (2009). Publications include Mistaken Identity (2009) and their opus, Tyrants + Lederhosen (2011). Their work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Galerie Catherine Houard (Paris), Galerie Sho Contemporary Art (Tokyo), Galerie Hiltawsky (Berlin), Christopher Henry Gallery (New York), and Karl Hutter Fine Art (LA). thehiltonbrothers.com @thehiltonbrothers
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Dramaco llectio n Š Nefelia | Out of fashion Drama collection attempts to challenge the relationship between art and functional design . It is the latest work of Nefelia | Out of fashion design studio. A collective of objects that amazes, while still being realistic enough to execute. A true Greek drama is taking place as the collection progresses, with highly designed objects, initiating newcomers to a land of mythical figures, Greek goddesses and heroes.
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evil eye
The , traditionally a talisman made to protect against the malevolent glares, that Greeks believe to be a curse cast to a person when unaware, in "Drama" collection becomes an acrylic set of placemats for two.
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Janus,
with the two faces, one seeing into the past and one into the future, thus representing time. A symbol of change and transition, in Drama collection, becomes a hand mirror, with a handle made out of handmade cast concrete and a double layering of laser cut plexiglass.
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Medusa-Sea
A mythological figure but yet a famous jelly fish. Inspired by both, this hanging light lamp, is made of iridescent laser cut layers, brass parts and a led light bulb. Due to the nature the material, it produces a unique view, depending on the angle you look at it. In an eye height when standing it seems clear, airy, transparent. When viewed from a different height, it produces all the colors of the rainbow.
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It was just a simple box. What was in it? Could it be gold, or silver, even precious stones? Surely just taking a very quick look inside couldn't do any harm - could it?...
Pandora's Box
hid evils and unknown secrets, and it becomes a jewelry box in Drama collection.
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Monster Chimera was defeated in a battle by hero Bellerephon, who rid during the fight! In Greek mythology Pegasus was the son of Medusa, a horse with wings that was eventually the companion of the Gods in mount Olympus. In Drama, it becomes a decorative ornament made of laser cut plexiglass that can also be hung.
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Ornithes,
Or inspired by the famous play of the father of comedy Aristophanes, become a set of coasters by using the technique of laser cutting, and embedding delicate eye pieces into an already-cut acrylic base.
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Trojan
The horse is a hand mirror inspired by the wooden horse the Greeks constructed, during the Trojan war, to hide a select force of men inside. Priest Laocoon tried to unveil its secret and was punished by Poseidon who sent two giant octopuses to strangle him. Made out of laser cut plexiglass, in silver and gold mirror and pink /cream colours, they sit on handcrafted wooden bases.
Greek mythology is all about drama, infidelity and betrayals between interconnected actors. F a s c i n a t i n g t a l e s about individuals fighting against the circumstances. Nefelia through Drama, presents modern Greeks, as equally dramatic and pompous as their ancestors, and the only way to approach this temper and celebrate their culture, was to design with humor, and then present her work through a string of metaphors -a sarcastic editorial that tries to bridge the profound gap between past and present. The collection is an exciting mix of u n e x p e c t e d e l e m e n t s , a s a r c a s t i c i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of G r e e k h i s t o r y , that in the end, characterize the distinctive and -out of fashion- work of Nefelia. 142
Drama collection was presented in ICFF, NYC, May 14-17, 2016
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