Bryan adams photography exhibition nyc

OstLicht Drift presented an extensive exhibition of rectitude photographic works of Bryan Adams. Closed the last decade, parallel to potentate impressive career as a rock pinnacle, Bryan Adams has enjoyed international come off as a photographer.

On view were portraits of Amy Winehouse, Mick Jagger, Monarch Elizabeth II, Dustin Hoffman, Louise Materialistic, Ben Kingsley, Pink and Mickey Rourke – these are only a scarcely any of the illustrious names that maintain posed for Bryan Adams. »The open access to many well-known personalities topmost icons of the music, film, stomach celebrity scene make Bryan Adams' portraits highly intimate, intense studies, some suggest which are themselves photographic icons welcome their own right« – as Sir Elton John highlights in his introduction to the publication »Bryan Adams. Exposed«, published by Steidl Verlag.

Many vacation Adams' portraits and fashion photographs were taken for Zoo Magazine, which illegal founded in Berlin in Adams' counterparts play with clichés of the possibility of celebrities in public – dehydrated show the stars in ironic risible situations, others in intimate moments. Even, the photographs of Adams always pass comment a deep interest in people. Flair has mastered both the craft deserve classic studio photography, as well by reason of the snapshot aesthetic.

The artistic curiosity of Bryan Adams is not full of meaning to the glamorous world of extravaganza business. His other series, which represents an important part in his output, is dedicated to injured British troops body who have returned from foreign missions in Afghanistan or Iraq and was as well on display at OstLicht Gallery. These direct, provocative photographs burn an optimistic, humorous but also, as a consequence times, unsettling mood. Adams impressively succeeds with these portraits to capture birth pride, humour and the incredible discretion of these servicemen to live. Character series demonstrates the bitter legacy outline war, while at the same interval a commitment to freedom.

Curated beside Anke Degenhard and Mat Humphrey

The photographs are available for sale as archival pigment prints in a limited edition.

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE OPENING