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Naomi Campbell, Paul Rowland Vintage Portrait Silver Gelatin Print

Marcus Leatherdale (1952 - 2022) Silver gelatin print with copper leaf mount 1987 Titled: High Priest. From the Demigod series. Hand signed and dated and bears artist studio stamp verso. Provenance: Greathouse Gallery (with label & information verso) Edition: 1 of 10. Dimensions mage measures 12" x 5", total measurements are 24" x 13" Marcus Leatherdale was a Canadian portrait photographer. Marcus Andrew Leatherdale was born on 18 September 1952, in Montreal, Canada, to Jack Leatherdale, a veterinarian, and Grace Leatherdale, a homemaker. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Leatherdale arrived in New York City in 1978, where he attended the School of Visual Arts. started his career in New York City during the early eighties, setting up a studio on Grand Street. Leatherdale first served as Robert Mapplethorpe office manager for a while and was photographed in the nude by the master, grabbing a rope with his right hand and holding a rabbit in his left. Thereafter he worked as an assistant curator to Sam Wagstaff. He soon became a darling of the then vibrant club scene and the fashionable media: Interview, Details, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Elle Decor presented his work. Later on he was featured in artsy publications as Artforum, Art News, and Art in America. Leatherdale was the Cecil Beaton of downtown New York, He photographed a not-yet-famous club kid named Madonna in her ripped jeans and his denim vest. The performance artist Leigh Bowery was majestic in a tinseled mask, a corset and a merkin. Andy Warhol was a Hamlet in a black turtleneck. Susanne Bartsch, the nightlife impressaria, was a towering presence in red leather. He documented the New York City lifestyle, the extraordinary people of Danceteria and Club 57 where he staged his first exhibits in 1980. Leatherdale was an acute observer of the New York City of the nineteen eighties. His models were the unknown but exceptional ones – like Larissa, Claudia Summers or Ruby Zebra – or well known artists – like Madonna, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Winston Tong and Divine, Trisha Brown, Lisa Lyon, Andrée Putman, Kathy Acker and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, Jodie Foster, and fellow photographer John Dugdale. He Married Claudia Summers, theirs was not a traditional marriage, but they were best friends, and he was Canadian, so it made life easier if they wed. His boyfriend for a time was Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photography studio Mr. Leatherdale also managed. He and Mapplethorpe were a striking pair, dressed like twins in leather and denim, their faces as if painted by Caravaggio, and they often photographed each other. Jean-Michel Basquiat was often hanging out there, playing his bongo drums; so were friends like Cookie Mueller, the doomed, gimlet-eyed author and Details magazine contributor who was for a time Mapplethorpe’s and Ms. Summers’ drug dealer, and Kathy Acker, the performance artist and novelist. For quite a while Leatherdale remained in Mapplethorpe's shadow, but was soon discovered as a creative force in his own right by Christian Michelides, the founder of Molotov Art Gallery in Vienna. Leatherdale flew to Vienna, presented his work there and was acclaimed by public and press. This international recognition paved his way to museums and permanent collections such as the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, the London Museum in London, Ontario, and Austria's Albertina. He was included in the MoMA exhibit New York/New Wave along with Kenny Scharf, William Burroughs, John Crash Matos, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Sprouse. Above all, his arresting portraits of New York City celebrities in the series Hidden Identities aroused long-lasting interest amongst curators and collectors. In 1993, Leatherdale began spending half of each year in India's holy city of Banaras. Based in an ancient house in the centre of the old city, he began photographing the diverse and remarkable people there, from the holy men to celebrities, from royalty to tribals, carefully negotiating his way among some of India's most elusive figures to make his portraits. From the outset, his intention was to pay homage to the timeless spirit of India through a highly specific portrayal of its individuals. His pictures include princesses and boatmen, movie stars and circus performers, and street beggars and bishops, mothers and children in traditional garb. Leatherdale explored how essentially unaffected much of the country was by the passage of time; and it has been remarked upon that this approach is distinctly post-colonial. In 1999, Leatherdale relocated to Chotanagpur (Jharkhand) where he focusing upon the Adivasis. Later Serra da Estrela in the mountains of central Portugal became his second home base. Leatherdale's matte printing techniques, which adapt nineteenth-century processes and employ half black, half sepia colorations, reinforce the timelessness of his subjects. Tones and matte surfaces effectively differentiate his portraits from the easy slickness of fashion photography. In 2019, Mr. Leatherdale compiled his work from 80s in a book entitled “Out of the Shadows”, written with Claudia Summers. During his time in New York City, he dated Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photography studio Leatherdale managed. His partner of two decades, Jorge Serio, died in July 2021 Major exhibitions 1980 Urban Women, Club 57, NYC 1980 Danceteria, NYC 1981 Stilvende, NYC 1982 The Clock Tower, PS1, NYC 1982 544 Natoma Gallery, San Francisco 1982 Eiko And Koma, Stilvende, NYC 1983 Form And Function Gallery, Atlanta 1983 Galerie in der GGK Wien, Vienna, Austria 1983 The Ring, Vienna (organized by Molotov) 1983 London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada 1984 Performance, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1984 Social Segments, Grey Art Gallery, NYU 1984 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1985 Ritual, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1985 Artinzer, Munich 1985 Leatherdale/Noguchi, Gallery 291, Atlanta 1985 Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia 1986 Poison Ivy, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1986 Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome 1986 Hidden Identities, Michael Todd Gallery, Palladium, NYC 1987 Demigods, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1987 Collier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 1987 Tunnel Gallery, NYC 1988 Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd., London, UK 1988 Madison Art Center, Madison 1989 Wessel-O’Connor Gallery, NYC 1989 Summer Night Festival, Onikoube, Sendai 1990 Bent Sikkema Fine Art, NYC 1990 Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Faye Gold Gallery, Atlanta 1990 Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles 1991 Runkel Hue-Williams Gallery, London 1991 Galerie Michael Neumann, Düsseldorf 1991 Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans 1992 Arthur Rogers, NYC 1992 Galerie Del Conte, Milwaukee 1993 Galerie Bardamu, NYC 1996 Fayf Gold Gallery, Atlanta 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Bridgewater/Lustberg, NYC 1998 Rai Krishna Das...

Pyramids in Egypt. a photo of a pyramid in a desert landscape. (from an email by the artist) This one is one of a series taken in 1984, in Egypt. They are numbered in series of 7. This one seems to be one of the original set of prints. The Musée du Louvre and the Musée Carnavalet, here in Paris, have acquired similar prints last year. Born in 1951 in Thann (Alsace, France) Paul Maurer starts photographing as an autodidact. He lives and works in Paris, France, since 1974. His main series cover natural and urban landscapes, architecture, plants or still lives. Paul Maurer finds his primary inspiration in the Alsatian landscapes and natural spaces, where he makes his first prize-winning shot. His encounter with French architect Paul Andreu determined his move from natural to urban landscapes: he pictures the streets and all that is happening in the town. His eye first captures general views, then concentrates on buildings. 1979 FNAC / Paris - France : “Basel’s Carnival” 1980 Photo Art / Basel - Switezerland : “Basel’sCarnival” 1983 Théatre du Rond-Point / Paris - France : “Hommage à James Joyce” 1984 Mois de la Photo / Paris - France : “Trianon” 1985 Photo Art / Basel - Switzerland : “Masks”Stockereg Gallery / Zurich - Switzerland : “Beaches” Museum of Modern Art / Miami (Flo.) - USA : “On Atget’s Footsteps” 1989 Cartier’s Foundation for Contemporary Arts / Paris -France: “Lights,Hazard and Reflection” 1999 Galerie Lahune-Brenner / Paris - France: " Jardin d’Erik GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1979 International Art Fair / Basel - Switzerland : “Natures” 1980 J. Briance Gallery / Paris - France : “Masks” 1981 Charmy l’Envers Gallery / Paris - France : “Trianon” 1982 FIAC / Paris - France : “Hennesy’s dreams” 1983 G. Pompidou Museum / Paris - France : “Imaginary Images” R.I.P. / Arles - France : “Natures” Paris Photo Gallery / Paris - France : “Natures” 1985 Museum of historical Monuments / Paris - France : “ Workshops” 1996 Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Paris - France : “ Seine’Embankments” Museum of Photography / Charleroi - Belgium : “The 3 great Egyptians” Hotel de Sully / Paris - France : “ The 3 great Egyptians” 1998 Galerie Zabriskie / Paris “Au revoir Paris” Paris Photo / Paris “Crossed Photos” 2005-2007 Galerie Esther Woerdehof / Palm Beach Photo...

HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...

Hatay is a visual artist, a healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian physicist/inventor and an English art dealer, she grew up in an international environment. Her father encouraged original thinking and experimentation; her mother nourished her creativity and her intuitive skills. Leaving her home in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, for Munich, Germany, she apprenticed to Bauhaus photographer Frl. Berthe Himmler. The next step was New York City where Hatay began to freelance in all aspects of photography. It was when she photographed Jimi Hendrix at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 1969 and was inspired by his music that she got a chance to spread her wings artistically. She was initially inspired by his energy, his vision and his originality. "Jimi Hendrix was absolutely amazing - it is not possible to put words to the Experience. He was, and still is, unique. I didn't know at the time I photographed him that he was interested in his music being a healing power. I learned a lot about this aspect of Hendrix about ten years later when I met people who knew him. When they heard how much I was interested in the healing aspects of his music, they shared their stories with me. I used some of this information in my two books, "Jimi Hendrix, The Spirit Lives On" and "Jimi Hendrix, Reflections and Visions". Nona's experimental techniques were used in her photographs on many other Rock stars, such as Tina Turner, James Brown, and Frank Zappa. She had a major exhibit of her work in Paris. ORIGINAL PHOTO ART one of a kind - experimental & hand painted are in many private collections & museums HARD ROCK CAFE INTERNATIONAL exhibits over 200 original Hatay photoartworks of MUSICIAN worldwide A few original vintage photoartworks available from Studio Hatay 2012 Limited edition archival giclee prints available September from Studio Hatay or Gallery shows ESSAYS, LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIOS & EXHIBITS ( partial list ) 1968 THREE SUNDAYS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE New York City, NY - one copy handmade book 1969 NEW YORK CITY - essay/exhibit Peace Marches, other events, personalities, Abi Hoffman, Dick Gregory, Stan Lee, Moondog. others, and concerts Fillmore East and Apollo 1975 SAN FRANCISCO HOOKERS BALL (exhibit purchased by Margo St James) 1976 CASTRO STREET FESTIVAL (Sylvester performing) exhibit color (hand painted) expanded photographs 1978 HENDRIX PORTFOLIO limited edition boxed portfolio of 10 original experimental photographs of Jimi Hendrix with tape of 10 songs illustrated (designed to experience listening while looking at the multidimensional pictures and reading Hendrix's lyrics/poems) b/w 1980 THE ROSICRUCIAN PARK, San Jose CA (world headquarters) color photos & experimental b/w 1982 JAMES BROWN & TINA TURNER - limited edition portfolio 1983 COLOR EXPANDED PORTRAITS - hand painted photos - many exhibits & commissions 1986 COLOR EXPANDED VINTAGE CARS at Limerick CT exhibited AUTO ART...

Naomi Campbell, Vogue Italia II - portrait of the supermodel The artwork is made and signed by the artist in a strictly limited edition of 7. Other sizes on request. For decades Mich...

Bruno Bisang NAOMI CAMPBELL for Swish, New York 1994 (P_013) 45 x 37.5 inches Archival Pigment Print / Black & white fine art Bartya / Color gloss resin coated Edition of 7 + 2 AP...

Total Edition of 15 signed and numbered Also available in: 100 x 100 cm / 39.4 x 39.4 in Black and white portrait of Supermodel Naomi Campbell in Paris...

ALBERT WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Naomi Campbell, Palm Springs, 1989 1989 Archival pigment print Image 122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36 in.) Sheet 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.) Edition of 1...