Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 4

Jacques Olivar
Blue Cadillac Antonia, Balearic Islands, contemporary, photography

2013

About the Item

Edition of 10 A female model is sitting in the front of an old classic Cadillac. Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar (b. 1941), where the miseen-scene often subtly references literature and film. Olivar originally trained as an airline pilot, before spending years as a nomadic advertising photographer, gradually winning recognition and awards including the Grand Prix Strategies in 1984. This profile led to collaborations with fashion houses and international publications, working for Céline, Vogue, Giorgio Armani, Comme des Garçons, and many more over the years. His Fine Art photography, which has been shot entirely on film, has also appeared in exhibitions across the world, including Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2001). Yet the images all demonstrate how Olivar’s approach moves beyond fashion and into the sphere of fine art, through his combination of beauty, glamour and sensuality with a perpetual fascination for narrative. He notes: “I always try to match two different stories together. There is the location of the story – the atmosphere, the light, the colors and the story of the woman – her eyes, her feelings, her attitude, her clothes. I like to choose for my pictures the least unexpected environment: a junkyard or a trashy diner, a lone street in a deserted ghost town or the poetry of a gas station. Then, I drive it into the ground to get the glamour of the situation.”
More From This SellerView All
  • Golden Giant II, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, elephant
    By Joachim Schmeisser
    Located in Munich, DE
    Edition of 5 More sizes on request. It was in the evening, not far from the reintegration unit in Tsavo National Park. I had just taken my last pictures of the day and the orphans w...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Golden Giant I, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, elephant
    By Joachim Schmeisser
    Located in Munich, DE
    Edition of 5 More sizes on request. It was in the evening, not far from the reintegration unit in Tsavo National Park. I had just taken my last pictures of the day and the orphans w...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Hadzabe, people, smoke, color photography, fire, africa, bushman
    By Joachim Schmeisser
    Located in Munich, DE
    Edition 12 more sizes on request An old man of the Hadza tribe is making fire. Born in Germany in 1958, Joachim Schmeisser is best known for his major photographic series he has d...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Diane Keaton, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
    By Greg Gorman
    Located in Munich, DE
    Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of famous American actress Diane Keaton...
    Category

    Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Brian Ferry, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
    By Greg Gorman
    Located in Munich, DE
    Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of British singer and s...
    Category

    1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Drew Barrymore Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
    By Greg Gorman
    Located in Munich, DE
    Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of the young American actress Drew...
    Category

    1990s Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

You May Also Like
  • Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead
    By Herb Greene
    Located in New York, NY
    16x20” Limited Edition Next available edition printed upon purchase. Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Captain Trips, Jerry Garcia
    By Herb Greene
    Located in New York, NY
    11x14 Limited Edition Next available edition printed upon purchase. Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Neil Young, Broken Arrow Ranch, 1991
    By Jay Blakesberg
    Located in New York, NY
    16x20” Premiere Archival Print Limited Edition Next available edition printed upon purchase. Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Neil Young, Broken Arrow Ranch, 1991
    By Jay Blakesberg
    Located in New York, NY
    16x20” Premiere Archival Print Limited Edition Next available edition printed upon purchase. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Kings of Leon, San Francisco, CA, 2005
    By Jay Blakesberg
    Located in New York, NY
    16x20” Premiere Archival Print Limited Edition Next available edition printed upon purchase. Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

  • Peter Gabriel, Sanremo, Italy, 1983
    By Guido Harari
    Located in New York, NY
    "Shock the Monkey #2" Also available as a special “Classic” edition of 15, only in size 16x23in, signed by both Guido Harari and Peter Gabriel 11x16” L...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

    Materials

    Archival Pigment

Recently Viewed

View All