Leila Zahiri #Photographe
Leila Zahiri is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist. As a rising professional photographer, she has recently graduated from OCADU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. Being an aspiring artist she tends to draw the inspirations for her work from her cultural and personal views
Exposition Expositions: Burn with desire et Anti glamour portraits of women Modifier l'image
Exhibition : Burn with desire
From Edward Steichen’s iconic portrait of silent film star Gloria Swanson (1924) to Annie Leibovitz’s influential gatefold covers for Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue (1995-2014), this multimedia exhibition offers a sweeping, yet considered view of photography’s role in defining glamour since the 1920s. Drawing on prints from the RIC’s Black Star Collection of photoreportage and the holdings of George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, among other collections, Burn with Desire provides a historical and visual chronology encompassing Hollywood studio portraits as well as red-carpet and film set photographs. Additionally, a series of artistic projects, including works by Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, and Andy Warhol, demonstrate a more...