Vendredi 25 Septembre 2015 11:13:05 par Myriam Boudjemia dans Expositions

Join a public dialogue between acclaimed portraitist and documentarian Jonathan Becker and André Leon Talley, former SCAD trustee and Vogue magazine contributing editor. The event celebrates the opening of “A Fashionable Mind: Photographs by Jonathan Becker,” the artist’s first solo exhibition in more than 30 years and his first museum retrospective. The evening provides a unique opportunity to learn about Becker’s significant contributions to contemporary photography through his portraiture of diverse human experiences.

His compelling landscapes — both of nature and the human figure — explore physicality well beyond surface detail. For example, his portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe at the artist’s 1988 exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is one of the most provocative images captured of Mapplethorpe during the last year of his life. The photograph speaks to the artist’s uncanny ability to capture the social-cultural statements of individuality as well as the irony and rawness of the human spirit.

Becker has traversed the globe in search of his most captivating and diverse subjects, including the upper echelons of entertainment, style, fashion and art, as well as unique subcultures such as the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon jungle. Additionally, he has collaborated to great acclaim with writers and artists such as Vanity Fair’s founding design director Bea Feitler and photographer Slim Aarons. His mentor was the great Hungarian artist Brassaï, from whom he had the good fortune to learn much about the geography of the human spirit through portraiture. Brassaï encouraged Becker to show the light of the soul, an essence only achieved through intense observation of human character.

This exhibition is curated by André Leon Talley.