Mark Seliger
EXPOSITION “Physionomy” du 17 Avril au 16 Juin 2000
EXPOSITION "PLATINIUM SHOW" du 15 Novembre au 8 Janvier 2005
EXPOSITION "In my StairWell" du 19 janvier au 3 Mars 2007
MARK SELIGER est né à Amarillo et a grandi a Houston, deux villes
du Texas. Il vit actuellement à NEW YORK où il est depuis bientôt
quinze ans.
Le photographe attitré des célébrités américaines
: ROLLING STONE et US.
Ses photos inventives et souvent drôles ont fait le Tour du Monde. Brad
Pitt (Los Angeles 1998), Mick Jagger (New York City 1994), John Lee Hooker
(Vallejo 1991), Susan Sarandon (NEW YORK City 1994), Nicole Kidman (NEWPORT
1996), Bob Dylan (Los Angeles 1998), Kurt Cobain (Michigan 1993), Tom Hanks
(Los Angeles 1994), Sean Penn (Los Angeles 1992), Neil Young (Chicago 1992),
Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey 1998), autant de Stars qui ont su reconnaitre
en lui un artiste majeur de notre époque.
De nombreux prix photographiques lui ont été attribués
: ART DIRECTION ANNUAL AWARDS 1989, 1993, 1995, THE ART DIRECTORS CLUB AWARDS
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT AWARD 1999, ETC..,
CONSACRANT SA CARRIERE AUTANT POUR SON TRAVAIL EDITORIAL QUE PUBLICITAIRE
(I.B.M., NIKE, FUJI, WRANGLER ...)
MARK SELIGER est également un réalisateur de clip video très
apprecié. Il a notamment mis en scène les music-videos de Lenny
Kravitz, Hole, Paula Cole, Nathalie Merchant, sans parler des nombreux clips
publicitaires réalisés entre autre pour GAP.
Mark Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and moved to Houston when he
was five years old. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual
Arts there and later graduated from East Texas State University. Mark worked
as a photographerÕs assistant in Houston for several years before moving
to New York.
Seliger began freelancing for Rolling Stone in 1987 and in 1993 became the
third chief photographer in the magazineÕs history, following in the
footsteps of Annie Leibovitz, who was one of MarkÕs early influences.
Also, as a photographer for Us and MenÕs Journal, he has shot more
than a hundred covers. In 1996, Seliger completed a two year project of documenting
Holocaust survivors.
The photographs culminated into his first book entitled, When They Came to
Take My Father, Voices of the Holocaust. His latest book, Physionomy, was
published in 1999. His images from these books and other Rolling Stone stories
have been exhibited around the world. His photographs of musicians and celebrities
have won various awards including the 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Photography
Award for a Single Image, which was given for a portrait of Ben Stiller. Mark
has also done editorial and advertising work for clients such as IBM, Nike,
American Express and MTV. His photographs are also in several important museum
collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Mark Seliger currently
lives and works in New York City.
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