Georges Dambier "Who's That Girl?"

Benrubi Gallery

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This exhibition of work by noted French fashion photographer, Georges Dambier, represents an important cross section of the artists’s long and influential career, including never before exhibited images of recently restored color negatives from the 1950s. Over the course of a career that spanned several decades, Dambier produced iconic images of some of the most recognizable faces in fashion of the era, including Suzy Parker, Dorian Leigh, Capucine, Bettina, and Brigitte Bardot.

Working for ELLE in the 1950s, Georges Dambier changed the face of fashion photography by taking his models out of the studio and onto the streets; no longer would the women he photographed be confined to emotionless poses, indifferent to the camera. Instead, he showed models smiling, laughing and empowered by action. His images captured an effortless sense of glamour and feminine chic in both the modern everyday and the exotic, whether his models were surrounded by local people in a marketplace in Marrakech, or in a village in Corsica, or-– and above all-– in his beloved Paris. Most of all, it was Dambier’s ability to put his subjects at ease, as many of them were his close friends, that helped him create true, intimate and lasting images. Later in his career, Dambier went on to photograph some of the most well-known cultural figures of his time, including Jean Cocteau, Josephine Baker and Charles Aznavour.

This is George Dambier’s second exhibition at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, representing the first major retrospective of his work in North America. Dambier worked for leading magazines and clients throughout his career, including Vogue, Elle, Jardin des Modes and L’Oréal. His work is the subject of a monograph, Paris Fifties: Regards sur Mode, published in France in 2008.

[Image: Georges Dambier "Catherine and Her Surfboard, Biarritz" (1959) Pigment Ink Print]

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from March 24, 2011 to May 27, 2011

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Georges Dambier

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