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Michael Andreas Russ
Untitled, Portrait of a Woman

c.1980

About the Item

This photograph "untitled, Portrait of a Woman" c.1980 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German/American photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. It is ink stamped with the artist's name on the back. The photograph size is 11.5 x 8.5 inches, framed is 18.5 x 15 inches. It is framed in a wooden light brown frame. it is in excellent condition. About Michael Andreas Russ. Michael Andreas Russ (born January 1945 in Berlin) is an German/American photographer, photo designer and film director. Russ' career as a photographer began in New York in the late 1960s where he photographed his fellow acting students. Self-taught, he eventually moved to his own studio off Union Square, Manhattan and connected with the local underground art scene. Photograph by Russ was published on the cover of “Art Direction Magazine of Visual Communication” with a Gertrude Stein quotation: “The composition in which we live makes the art which we see and hear” In his early years Russ focused on men's fashion magazines and erotic sequential photographic scenes for Playboy Press books. He eventually experimented with distinctive photographic techniques, turning 35mm black and white film into chemically toned, masked, solarized and hand colored, one of a kind silver gelatin prints. These 'TinTones' as Russ would call them eventually became the trademark of his work. They were published in popular fashion and lifestyle magazines and brought him international recognition in the art world. His work was published in major fashion, lifestyle and avant-garde magazines, GUNNARS, Mode International, Mode Avant Guarde, PHOTO Magazine, Zoom (photography magazine), as well as German Playboy (magazine), Photo Reporter and cover art to IL Magazine. He also contributed sequential 'sujets de chambre' to Vogue magazine His erotic postcard edition "The Compagnie" became part of the permanent collection of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, an annex to the Louvre museum. Selected Exhibitions. 1980: Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Louvre Annex, Paris). "Postcard edition The Compagnie" 1983: China Club, Los Angeles. "Prussian Blue". Large format R prints. 1998: L.A. Gallery, Los Angeles. Group exhibition. 1999: The Image House, Santa Fe N.M. "Iris Giclee Prints". 2000: Fullers Lodge, Los Alamos N.M. "Iris Giclee Prints", group exhibition. 2000: The Paramount, Santa Fe N.M. "TinTones". 2003: Soho Gallery, Los Angeles, "Iris Giclee Prints and silver gelatine -"TinTones", group exhibition. 2007: Fine Arts-Con.Tra Salongalerie, Berlin. "TinTones", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial.[24] 2007: Galerie Nadania Idriss, Berlin. "TinTones", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial. 2008: Art Center Berlin. "TinTones", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial. 2009: Galerie Lucas Carrieri (Berlin). "TinTones", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial. 2011: Art Center Berlin. "TinTones. Rough Print", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial. 2012: Art Place Seoul, South Corea. "TinTones. Rough Print", large format Lambda Prints. 2013: Retrospektive: Fotografien von Michael A. Russ, 1973 – 2013. "06:00 AM … positive/negatives 2013: Station Berlin, Berlin Fotofestival The Browse 2013."TinTones", large format AluDiBonds/Silver/Industrial.
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