JIM MARSHALL + TIMOTHY WHITE: Match Prints Opening

Match Prints: (left) Robert Plant, Los Angeles, CA, 1970 by Jim Marshall (right) Nicole Kidman, New York, NY, 2003 by Timothy White

Photography Heavyweights: Jean-Jacques Naudet (left) Author, Curator and Commissioner of Exhibitions in Arles, with (center) David Schonauer, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and (right) Achard & Associates, Philippe Achard.

The Opening crowd included actress Glenn Close (center) and photographer Roxanne Lowit (far left) with Stockland Martel photo agent Emily Leonardo

Match Prints Photographer Timothy White and Glenn Close. White photographed the Oscar-nominated actress for the FX series "Damages," in which she stars

Glenn Close with Match Prints Photographer Timothy White

Exhibition film crew captures wall photographs; (top left) by Timothy White, Shirley MacLaine, Los Angeles, CA, 1991; (top right) by Jim Marshall, Shelley Winters, New York, NY, 1963

Celebrity photographer and author, Roxanne Lowit
(gotta see her website!)

All Snapshot Photographs (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved

MATCH PRINTS
Photographs by Jim Marshall and Timothy White
March 26 - April 24, 2010 Staley Wise Gallery NYC

"Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Johnny Cash at San Quentin State Prison, died on Tuesday night (March 23) in a hotel in New York. He was 74."–The New York Times, March 24, 2010

LARRY FINK: Be Seen

Be Seen
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Be Seen
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Mingle
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Mingle
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

BOOKS
LARRY FINK WEBSITE
And BLOG

BENNO GRAZIANI: La Dolce Vita

Fiat's Gianni Agnelli and guest Heidi von Salvisberg, Beaulieu 1967
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jackie et les Paparazzi's, Port d'Amalfi 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Benno Graziani photographing Jackie Kennedy and Marella Agnelli, Amalfi, Italy 1962 Photograph(c)Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jackie Kennedy Nageant, Ravello, Italy August 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

Jacqueline Kennedy and sister Princess Lee Radziwill, Ravello, Italy 1962
Photograph (c) Benno Graziani /All Rights Reserved

'Match was our little club, there were no editors meetings because we hardly spent time apart from each other – and it worked! Some editions sold more than two million copies...The world's press envied us and tried in vain to imitate us

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BENNO GRAZIANI, photojournalist and former editor of Paris Match, exhibits his iconic black and white images of the legendary rich and famous on the French-Italian Riviera of the 1950's-1970's. Graziani was friends with some of the biggest celebrities of his era. He was the inspiration for Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Having met as journalist's while Jacqueline Kennedy, then Jacqueline Bouvier, was working for the Washington Times Herald in the 1950's, Graziani had the privilege of documenting the Kennedy lifestyle as seen in his book Private Collection (Editions Verlhac). His work has been exhibited in The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2000; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 2001 and Galerie Photo12, Paris, 2007 and 2009.

NYC exhibition by appointment only through Nov 14. public_realations(at)olegcassini(dot)com galerie–photo12

Post thanks to Jean-Jacques Naudet, legendary editor,
author and champion of important image-makers

JONATHAN BECKER: A Vanity Fair Retrospective

Robert Mapplethorpe at his Whitney Retrospective, 1988
Copyright © Jonathan Becker / Vanity Fair

Brassaï, Eze, 1982 © Jonathan Becker / Steven Kasher Gallery

Madonna, Martha Graham, and Calvin Klein, N.Y., 1990
Copyright © Jonathan Becker / Vanity Fair

"After the requisite “NO”, followed by a long, debilitating night/morning of Jack Daniels and memorable palaver I can’t remember, Frank Sinatra finally acquiesced with the simple, syncopated, “One pitcher”. He kept his word the next afternoon. I got my picture for Town & Country. Never have I been so careful with the shutter-trigger".

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JONATHAN BECKER began contributing to Vanity Fair in 1981. His portraits of filmmaker Louis Malle and of Becker’s mentor and friend Brassaï featured largely in the prototype for the magazine’s relaunch, in 1983. Becker’s specialty in portraits, photographed by and large on location, soon became a Vanity Fair staple: Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Miller, Jocelyn Wildenstein, and Martha Graham, as well as countless socialites, artists, and heads of state. Assignments for the magazine sent Becker from the Amazonian jungle, for first-encounter photographs of members of the Yanomami tribe, to Buckingham Palace, for the first photographs showing the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles together. Over the course of work for the Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its funded projects on five continents. Three books of Becker's work have been published: Bright Young Things; Studios by the Sea, Artists of Long Island’s East End; and Bright Young Things: London. (bio from Vanity Fair)

View Vanity Fair's Portfolio: A JONATHAN BECKER RETROSPECTIVE

Jonathan Becker: www.jonathanbecker.com