Paris Photo is considered to be one of the outstanding art fairs for photography. Over 140 galleries from 34 countries display artworks from the 19th century to the present by more than 3500 photographers in the beautiful Parisian Grand Palais. In November 2015 the fair had to be closed prematurely due to the tragic events of November 13. With the exhibition “BOOTH D9 – Sélection Paris Photo” we are giving our artists an opportunity to present their works again in our gallery space in Lucerne.
© Lucien Clergue, Les Géantes 1978
One part of the exhibition is dedicated to French photographer Lucien Clergue and features a small retrospective of his work from all periods of his long-lasting career. He received worldwide recognition with his playful nude photographs and Venus...
In summer 2013 Bernheimer Fine Art Photography presents the exhibition Jan C. Schlegel: Faces in its gallery rooms on Brienner Str. 7 in Munich. This is the first solo exhibition of the photographer in the Bernheimer gallery.
The pictures shown in the exhibition bear witness of the special encounters of the photographer with unique people on his trips through Africa and Asia. Since 1998 Jan C. Schlegel regularly travels to remote places, which are secluded from the tourism of the western world. On his tours the artist observed the rapid decline of traditions and increasing change of the way of life of the people within their tribes due to globalisation. The inexorable changes woke the urgent wish in the photographer to portrait people, to capture impressions and to preserve traditional life forms in his pictures....