by Doreen Pfeiffer | 25 Apr, 2022 | Artists
Slim Aarons was an American photographer who was well known for his images of socialites, jet-setters, aristocracy and celebrities. Throughout his career he worked with magazines like Life, Holiday and Town & Country. He had a very simple approach – used no...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 6 Jul, 2021 | Artists
I was fortunate enough to visit Paris in early 2005 when Louis Vuitton was doing renovations to their flagship store on the Champs-Élysées and managed to take the following two photographs. In 2004, Louis Vuitton spent $1,5 million to erect the large scale Louis...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 15 Jun, 2021 | Artists
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in the late-1970s in New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, with mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 13 Apr, 2021 | Artists
For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to the whole development of modern art in the 20th century, notably through the invention of Cubism in about 1907. He was not only a master painter but also...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 23 Mar, 2021 | Artists
“I had fun throughout my lifetime, building my own small theatre.” – Robert Doisneau Photographer Doisneau (1922 – 1994) captured the marvels of daily Parisian life with an ever-playful eye. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri...
by Doreen Pfeiffer | 7 Mar, 2021 | Artists
I first came across the work of the graffiti artist, Lady Aiko in New York at The Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking district where she did the stairwell in 2010. Aiko Nakagawa was born and raised in Tokyo and moved to New York in the mid-90’s and established...