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ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER
John Stewart: Muhammad Ali "Butterfly", Chicago, 1977

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ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER

Exhibition: 7 Sep – 15 Oct 2016

Wed 7 Sep 19:30 - 21:00

Galerie Clairefontaine

7 place de la Clairefontaine
1341 Luxembourg

+352-472324


www.galerie-clairefontaine.lu

Tue-Fri 10-18:30, Sat 10-17

ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER
John Stewart: Pink Lotus, Sri Lanka, 1997, Pigment Print

John Stewart
"ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER"

Exhibition: 7 September – 15 October, 2016
Opening: Wednesday, 7 September, 19:30-21h

Born in London in 1919 and brought up in Paris, John Stewart came to photography in the early 1950s, after a chance meeting with Picasso in the French village of Vallauris. Stewart’s request to photograph the artist sitting in a field of tall grass was granted and a few days later, he received an invitation to photograph Matisse in Nice. This was the beginning of a stellar career that saw Stewart go to work in New York under the celebrated director of Harper’s Bazaar, Alexei Brodovitch. His work then began to appear regularly in Vogue, House & Garden and Elle and is now in museums and collections around the world.

ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER
John Stewart: Morandi, Paris, 1974, Charcoal Print

The exhibition at Galerie Clairefontaine will be a retrospective of his works including a selection of his famous series of Muhammad Ali. The show will feature exceptional prints of flowers, portraits, still-lifes, draperies and entropies. As John Stewart describes it himself: "Come to the seventies, little by little I let go of art directors and copy writers, and soon rediscovered my early fascination for still-life. I often used a 19th century method of making photographic prints, known as Charcoal printing. Using pigments rather than silver salts, the technique allows for deep, powerful blacks and a kind of sensuality unknown in conventional printing."

ADVENTURES OF A FOOTLOOSE PHOTOGRAPHER
John Stewart: Muhammad Ali "Fist", Chicago, 1977, Pigment Print