Always fascinated by photography (his great uncle was a friend and patron of Eugène Atget), Patrice Calmettes, when he was not yet 20, was offered by Diana Vreeland to become a photographer for Vogue USA. A complicity that will last several years before Andy Warhol asked him to collaborate Interview.
After all these years of cosmopolitan life and overflows, Patrice Calmettes takes refuge in work on timelessness. Portraits, landscapes and architecture are all subjects that we are the roots of our Western civilization. The most of his photos were taken in Ibiza, Mediterranean island of excess passage and tranquility, since the Phoenician period.
Meticulous and lonely, his black and white are stylized and whatever the subject, they retain a conventional size, shared mind with Robert Mapplethorpe. The latter was an unknown young man of 18, Patrice Calmettes was then dazzled by his talent when he entered his studio. Most often he works with Hasselblad, his pictures are graphics, always in natural light (its blacks are bright) and great elegance. His photographs have the power of images that stores at first glance.
Pierre Passebon
Patrice Calmettes
Photographe
Always fascinated by photography, Patrice Calmettes, when he was not yet 20, was offered to become a photographer for Vogue USA, which will last several years before Andy Warhol asked him to collaborate Interview.
After all these years of cosmopolitan life and overflows, Patrice Calmettes takes refuge in work on timelessness. Portraits, architecture, landscapes, are all issues that we are the roots of our Western civilization. Most of his pictures were taken in Ibiza, Mediterranean island of excess passage and tranquility, since the Phoenician period.
Judith Benhamou-Huet
Auteur
Judith Benhamou has specialized in the art after Law and Political Science studies. It takes into topics about the art or the art market for Les Echos, the Point or Art Press. She is editorial director of a daily program on Paris Première and TV5 Monde, “Otto goalkeeper contemporary art.” Recognized as one of the specialists in the study of the market for contemporary art, she made numerous conferences around the world where it discusses the various issues related to this topic. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 she curated the exhibition “Warhol TV” which examines the relationship between Warhol and on TV, shown in Paris, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro.
Pierre Passebon
Galeriste
Passebon Pierre is the director of the gallery of the Passage in Paris.