The English title of this series is not quite as meaningful as the original French one, "Vraies semblances" (which means both true semblances and verisimilitudes). This was my second project as an author, and it still is, of all my work, the one that produces the strongest reactions - be they positive or negative.

Its main theme, needless to say, is women and the emotions they convey. Most of those who modeled for these photographs have played some role in my own life or in that of people close to me. Only few are "professional beauties", such as actresses or fashion models. Each session has taken weeks o...

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Jay Mark Johnson is a film director with broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised and/or directed the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series. Noted for his work in architecture and design, he has projects in the permanent collection of the MOMA (NYC), as well as at the Smithonian Institution and the Art Institue of Chicago.

Johnson's varied and prolific career also spans theatre and performance art, journalism, live musical performance, and photography.

"Motion Studies" is the first major solo show.

"'Motion S...

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Nobuyoshi Araki is undisputedly one of the most radical and influential photographers of our times. In his oeuvre he has been exceptionally productive and innovative and is regarded as one of the most important figures in current art sphere far beyond the area of photography.

In the last 40 years Araki has published around 350 photo books. In his native country has long been a media star. His enormous fame in Japan at the beginning of the 1990's was accompanied with increasing international interest. In the last ten years Araki's work has been presented in a number of exhibitions in Europe.

Taboo-breaker, cap...

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Roland Pleterski (1920 - 2000), an Austrian who was for years a New Yorker by choice, was a photographer who sought glamour. Trained as a fashion artist and heeding the call of photography rather late, Peterski went to New York at the beginning of the 1950's, drawn by the radiance of the American metropolis. There he became Irving Penn's assistant. Pleterski's elegant, statically-staged fashion and portrait photographs of contemporaries, known through Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and other high end fashion magazines, are unmistakeably influenced by the work of the great photographer and friend. Despite an oeuvre that during his lifetime...

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