“One is never so naked as when dressed for a party“, artist Jessica Craig-Martin notes in an interview. It is a statement immediately reflected in her subjects. Craig-Martin’s works depict scenes from social events – cocktail parties, charity fundraisers, and glamorous galas at the Cannes Film Festival or the Venice Biennale. Her precise and detailed photographs show extravagantly attired guests enjoying exuberant parties. In contrast with photographs published in glossy magazines, however, Craig-Martin does not show flawless beauty but reveals snippets of the reality that lu...

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Ralf Peters does not consider himself as a card-holding photographer but emphatically claims to use his photographs as mere material: photography is the medium whereby he hopes to make meaningful statements on reality and its medial presentation. To achieve this challenges the viewer to be his partner – as an inquisitive and critically perceptive observer. It is only because the strange beauty and sometimes disturbing impenetrability of Peters' images exert a mesmerising fascination that significance is revealed. Many of his photographs already carry a high atmospheric charge due to the extraordina...

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In the 1940s and 50s Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was among New York‘s most highly regarded fashion and advertising photographers. The Kunsthaus Zürich celebrated his 100th birthday in a 1997 retrospective that covered Blumenfeld‘s artistic oeuvre in great detail. The Andres Thalmann Gallery is delighted to present Blumenfeld‘s Vintage Prints from 1937 – 1958 in close cooperation with the Erwin Blumenfeld Estate.

Blumenfeld considered his nude studies an important part of his work. Inspired by Surrealist photographers, among them Man Ray and Brassaï, he explored dream worlds. T...

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