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At the Real Dolls Factory, San Diego, 19 February 2015
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
At the Real Dolls Factory, 19 February 2015
Portrait of a sex doll crated for shipment to a client. The Real Dolls brand sat at the high-end of the trade, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
14" x 14.5" Platinum & Palladium Print
Edition Nº 1 of 3
Certificate of Origin
Signed and Titled by the Photographer in Edition and Emboss-stamped in the Margin/Recto
Printing & Edition Notes along with Copyright Stamp and Applicable Providence on Verso
Printed by hand at the photographer's studio in the traditional Platinum & Palladium process on 100% cotton rag paper. Platinum & Palladium prints are known for their unrivaled longevity and unparalleled subtlety.
Print cost includes wrapping/packing/crating for shipment in double-tubing.
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Jonathan Becker
(Steven Kasher Gallery bio by Mark Rozzo)
Literate flair, acute visual intuition, love of mischief and spontaneity, and global wanderlust: These are among the hallmarks of the work of Jonathan Becker, whose photography spans four decades and includes iconic portraits (often for Vanity Fair) of a multiplicity of subjects, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha Graham, Madonna, Elia Kazan, Prince Charles, Eudora Welty, André Leon Talley, Ai Weiwei, Diana Vreeland and Jack Kevorkian.
Becker - whose work was first published in Andy Warhol’s Interview in 1973 - was born in 1954 and raised in New York City. In the mid-1970s, he moved for a year to Paris, where he was mentored by his hero, Brassaï. Upon return to New York, Becker drove a cab, toting his camera and parking to complete magazine assignments. A 1981 exhibition of Becker’s work at New York’s Rentschler Gallery included a series of arresting images of patrons taken inside the kitchen at Elaine’s, the storied hangout on New York’s Upper East Side. This exhibition, curated by art director Bea Feitler brought Becker to the attention of Frank Zachary, editor-in-chief of Town & Country. Zachary invited Becker to work for the magazine, where the young photographer further developed his passion for journalistic portraiture alongside Slim Aarons, who, after Brassaï, became Becker’s guiding light.
Becker was then enlisted by Bea Feitler to contribute portraits to the prototype of Vanity Fair’s 1983 re-launch. His participation led to a highly prolific association with the magazine as Contributing Photographer, continuing to this day. Becker has also contributed portraits and reportage to The New Yorker, Vogue, W, The Paris Review, amongst truly most major publications. In complement to his editorial work, Becker has accepted a limited number of private and family portrait commissions each year, some accompanied by privately published books, and in the course of his three-years-long project for the Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its vast array of philanthropic grant recipients on four continents abroad.
Six trade books comprised entirely of Becker’s photographs have been published including Bright Young Things...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
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Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Origin...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Saturday Night Live in Elaine's Kitchen, 1976
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Elaine's Kitchen - Saturday Night Live • Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi & Lorne Michaels, New York, January 1976
Photographed by Jonathan ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Emma in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, April 1984
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Emma in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, 1984
Pão de Açucar, (Sugarloaf Mountain), Rio’s defining landmark looms in the background.
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
14" x 14.5...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
On the Sofa at the Real Dolls Factory, San Diego, 19 February 2015
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
On the Sofa at the Real Dolls Factory, San Diego, 19 February 2015
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of O...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Chasse au Cerf, Normandie, France, September 1975
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
La Chasse au Cerf, Normandie, France, September 1975
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Origin
Signed a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hunter Thompson and Anita Bejmuk at home, Aspen, Colorado, 7 July 2002
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Hunter Thompson and Anita Bejmuk at home, Aspen, Colorado, 7 July 2002
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Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
18" x 18.5" Archival Pigment Pr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ai Weiwei in his studio, Beijing, 12 May 2007
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Ai Weiwei in his studio, Beijing, 12 May 2007
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Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Origin
Signed and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie, Damien Hirst, & Julian Schnabel, New York, 3 May 1996
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
David Bowie, Damien Hirst, and Julian Schnabel at Hirst's Opening, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 3 May 1996
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Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigmen...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Diana Vreeland at home, 550 Park Avenue, New York, 21 July 1979
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Diana Vreeland at home, 550 Park Avenue, New York, 21 July 1979
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Orig...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 30 June 2013
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III at six in the morning, Paris, 30 June 2013
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment