1956 Vintage Jeanloup Sieff Portrait Michelle Girardon Paris Photogravure 12x16

Print Method: Photogravure
(Heliogravure, sheet fed photogravure, lithograph)

Color / B&W: Black & White

Print Year: 1989

Origin: France

Orientation: Portrait

Image Height: 9.65 ins.

Image Width: 6.42 ins.

(New) Mount & Mat Board: 100% Cotton, Acid Free, Museum Grade Mount Board.

Mount Height: 16.0 ins.

Mount Width: 12.0 ins.

Standard Frame: 12 by 16

Frame Ready

The mount size for print VP6BC7C6 is a standard frame size 12.0 ins wide x 16.0 ins high, which allows you to save money on expensive, custom framing. Please note: this print is also fully matted, making it genuinely frame ready (Although we cannot change the size of the print, if you prefer a different size mount to fit a particular frame size, please contact us before ordering. No charge). The mount and mat are brand new.

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BIO

Born: Paris, France, 1933

Died: 2000

Hamiltons Gallery

" ... Sieff is heralded as one of the great international photographic talents of the last half-century and has left an undeniable imprint on his generation. Prolific in many fields, the variety of his imagery highlights his broad artistry, ranging from fashion, nudes, landscape and portraiture. With great tenacity, Sieff pursued a personal and highly effective signature style, soaked in playful imagination with a touch of irony. Seldom working in colour he favoured the discipline of black and white, often using to his advantage the spatial distortion of wide-angle lenses, the dramatic potential of shadow and exploitation of tone. ... "

Ira Stehmann

" ... Photographer Jeanloup Sieff was known his sensuous black-and-white nudes, portraits of artists and politicians, fashion photography, and surrealist-inflected landscapes. Influenced by the new-wave filmmakers of the 1950s, Sieff developed a style characterized by clean, modern elegance, capturing long bare backs, sumptuous curves, and ladies’ lingerie. “I have always maintained there is no such thing as art,” he once said. “There are only artists, producing things that give them pleasure, doing so under some compulsion, perhaps even finding the process painful, but deriving a masochistic joy from it!” Sieff worked for Elle and the Magnum Agency, and his work has appeared in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, among other publications. ... "

Wikipedia

" ... Jeanloup Sieff was a French photographer. He was born in Paris to Polish parents. He was a photography student of Gertrude Fehr. He is famous for his portraits of politicians, famous artists, landscapes, as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens and visible dodging marks. He worked mainly in black and white and in fashion. ... "

The Forest Magazine

" ... Jeanloup Sieff immerses himself in his pictures, his vision remains the same regardless of the subject. Black and white is the norm, along with a frequent use of a wide angle lens, distorting perspective. Even though the perspective distortion wide angle lenses prominently feature can render the subject unnatural and distant to us, Sieff’s images are imbued with sensitivity and a tenderness that embraces the person depicted. "My pictures are like many little black and white rocks I left here and there in order to find my way back to my teenage years" he would describe later on in his life. ... "

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