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BEAUTY CULTURE
May 21 - November 27, 2011

Featured Photographers

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Lauren Greenfield
Photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is renowned for her remarkable insights into youth culture, body image and the effects of consumerism.  Author of the groundbreaking books Fast Forward, Girl Culture and Thin, her work is widely published and in many museum collections including the Getty, LACMA, SFMOMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. American PHOTO named Greenfield one of the 25 most influential photographers of our time. Greenfield’s Emmy-nominated documentary film Thin (HBO, 2006) provided an unprecedented window into the psychology of eating disorders. It premiered at Sundance and won the Best Documentary Award at the London Film Festival. Greenfield was commissioned by the Annenberg Foundation to direct a short film, as part of the BEAUTY CULTURE exhibition.


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Melvin Sokolsky
Largely self-taught, Melvin Sokolsky’s brief but intense career as a photographer made an important contribution to what is considered the golden age of magazine publishing (1950s - 1970s). Sokolsky was a frequent contributor to Harper’s Bazaar, Ladies Home Journal, Esquire, Newsweek, the New York Times and McCall’s (for which he photographed a complete one-man issue in October 1962). After nearly ten years at the top of his profession, Sokolsky translated his work into film and commercials.  Sokolsky is the recipient of every major television commercial award including the coveted Directors Guild nomination and 25 Clio Awards. In 1972 Sokolsky was nominated for an Academy Award for a computerized zoom lens that he designed.


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Tyen
A photographer, makeup design director and master of color, Tyen has worked for the past 30 years with the House of Dior to create some of its their most enduring images and products. He moved to Paris at 16.  He began his career doing stage makeup for the Paris Opéra. But he was soon discovered by the magazine world, creating looks for photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Bill King. Within a year, Tyen revealed his talents as a photographer, first for his own campaigns, then for established fashion magazines: Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle, and for prestigious designers such as Versace, Valentino, Issey Miyake and Gianfranco Ferré, among others.


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Albert Watson
Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers, while creating his own art along the way. His striking images, many of them iconic portraits of celebrities, have appeared on more than 100 covers of Vogue and been featured in countless other publications. Watson also has shot campaigns for many major corporations, such as Prada, Revlon and Chanel, and he has photographed dozens of Hollywood movie posters. All the while, Watson has spent his time working on personal projects, creating stunning images from his travels and interests, from Marrakesh to Las Vegas. The photo industry bible Photo District News named the Scotsman one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time.  


See below for a full list of contributing photographers:

Miles Aldridge, Susan Anderson, Anthony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, Lillian Bassman, Gilles Bensimon, Fadil Berisha, Erwin Blumenfeld, Michelle Bogre, René R. Bouché, Guy Bourdin, Carl Bower, Daniele Buetti, Nancy Burson, William Claxton, Chuck Close, Jodi Cobb, Michel Comte, Fabio Cuttica, Prabuddha Dasgupta, Baron Adolf de Meyer, Patrick Demarchelier, Terence Donovan, Otto Dyar,  Daniela Federici,  Hans Feurer, Mark Fix, Gorm Gaare, Greg Gorman, Jean-Paul Goude, Peter Granser, Lauren Greenfield, Philippe Halsman, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Walter Iooss, Yale Joel,  Lynn Johnson, Dimitrios Kambouris, Bernd Kammerer, Colby Katz, Tom Kelley, Sr., Dr. John Keshishian, Dirk Kikstra, Alex Sandwell Kliszynski, David LaChapelle, Paul Lange, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Sam Levin, Danielle Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Maxwell, Bruce McBroom, Rasmus Mogensen, Yasumasa Morimura, Nino Muñoz, Zed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Erwin Olaf, ORLAN, Tom Palumbo, Ellis Parrinder, Phil Poynter, Karen Radkai, Chris Rainier, John Rawlings, Man Ray, Marcia Resnick, Terry Richardson, Philip Riches, Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston, Norman Jean Roy, Greg Ruffing, Horacio Salinas, Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello, Francesco Scavullo, Martin Schoeller, Andres Serrano, Joe Shere, Melvin Sokolsky, Annie Sprinkle, James Stanfield, Bert Stern, Gilles Toucas, Tyen, Leo Vals, Ellen Von Unwerth, Albert Watson, Felicia Webb, Carrie Mae Weems, Nathaniel Welch, Bob Willoughby