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David Drebin
Beautiful Disasters
Book Launch & Book Signing
Saturday ⋅ September 15, 2012 ⋅ 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Steve Schapiro
Then and Now
Book Launch & Book Signing
Saturday ⋅ September 15, 2012 ⋅ 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
CWC GALLERY is pleased to present a selection of the most famous works by David Drebin and Steve Schapiro with new and never shown photographs, opening on August 27, 2012. On September 15, in the context of the special exhibitions, Steve Schapiro and David Drebin will present their new photobooks »Then and Now« (Hatje Cantz) and »Beautiful Disasters« (teNeues) at CWC GALLERY.
© Steve Schapiro, David Bowie, Los Angeles, 1975
Steve Schapiro
Whether the intoxicating moves of Ray Charles, the famous victory poses of 21-year-old Cassius Clay or the impervious aura of Andy Warhol: Steve Schapiro succeeded in capturing one of the most exciting decades in contemporary history, the 1960s, in his unique photographs. Among his work with celebrities of music, art or acting he also documented a period of profound changes in politics and society with his camera. Schapiro accompanied Robert F. Kennedy on his election campaign in 1968 an made impressive photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, especially of Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s characteristic for his work that he tries to carve out the special charisma of the characters. With his partly symbolic-iconic portraits Steve Schapiro bears witness to the decade. Another large and highly esteemed part of the work of Steve Schapiro is the photo series from the movie sets »The Godfather« (1972) and »Taxi Driver« (1976). He attended the filming and was able to capture the development of two of the most influental movies in history from an exceptional angle.
Steve Schapiro was born in 1934 in New York City and contracted his passion for photography already as a nine-year-old boy. He studied under Eugene W. Smith who influenced Schapiro’s interest in documentary of social milieus and emphatic portraits in the following years. In 1961, Schapiro began to work as a professional journalist. His photographs have been published in numerous prestigious magazines such as »Life«, »Time«, »Rolling Stone« or »Vanity Fair«. In 2011, CAMERA WORK dedicated a comprehensive and succesful exhibition to his body of work. The artist lives and works in Chicago.
© David Drebin, Jerusalem, 2011
David Drebin
In his newest photographs from the series entitled »Beautiful Distasters«, Drebin develops saucy-seductive stories around the voyages of his desirable protagonists. Inapproachable, unattainable and likewise irresistible, the women in these photographs own an eroticising charisma which is a trademark of David Drebin’s work. The spectator becomes a voyeur and gets a glimpse of apartments where glamourous, heroic, and attractive women are staged mysteriously or of unique subjects in which the female body is shown lascivious and passionate. But below the beautiful surface of the models it quakes: Drebin shares their desires, wishes and hopes with the spectator. So he succeeds in doing photographs full of pathetic intimacy and closeness which combine topics such as humor, love, erotic, loneliness and melancholia.
David Drebin was born in 1970 in Canada and grew up in Toronto before he moved to New York City to study at »Parsons The New School for Design«. After his succesful graduation he quickly established his reputation as an international photographer for advertising and fashion. Enterprises like American Express, Mercedes, Nike, or Sony belong to his range of customers and his photographs are published in magazines like »Elle«, »GQ«, »New York Times Magazine«, »Rolling Stone«, or »Vanity Fair«. In 2005, David Drebin had his first solo exhibition at CAMERA WORK. In 2007, a selection of his photographs was released in the photo book »Love And Other Stories«, three years later the photobook »The Morning After« (teNeues) was published and was exclusively launched at CAMERA WORK. In recent years, David Drebin has developed to a much asked contemporary photographer on the photography art market. Drebins photographs have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide, featured on considerable art fairs and are part of international auctions.