SCAD FASH presents “A Fashionable Mind: Photographs by Jonathan Becker”
- ATLANTA, Georgia
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- January 10, 2016
SCAD FASH, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s museum celebrating fashion and film, presents “A Fashionable Mind: Photographs by Jonathan Becker.” The exhibition was originally curated by André Leon Talley for the SCAD Museum of Art and will include a selection of new photographs for SCAD FASH. Becker’s first solo exhibition in more than 30 years, this retrospective surveys 35 years of his illustrious career, and features more than 60 of his iconic photographs. Images include portraits and intimate behind-the-scenes moments of bold-faced names in fashion, entertainment, style, high society and art.
Visitors are invited to attend a conversation between Bob Colacello and Becker Jan. 20, 2016, 7-8 p.m., at SCADshow, 173 14th St. NE. SCAD will host a ticketed preview opening Jan. 21, 6-9 p.m., with all proceeds benefiting new and existing scholarships. The exhibition opens to the public with cost of museum admission Jan. 22. To purchase tickets or become a museum member, visit scadfash.org.
Highlights of Becker’s career include a mentorship under Franco-Hungarian artist Brassaï and an ongoing tenure of more than three decades as a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine. Becker is considered one of the world’s most influential contemporary photographers and is known for his signature style of portraiture. His subjects have included Martha Graham, Louis Malle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Miller, Jack Kevorkian, Eudora Welty and Jocelyn Wildenstein.
Assouline recently published a book of his collective works titled “Jonathan Becker: Thirty Years at Vanity Fair.” A catalog of the exhibition, published by the university, is forthcoming and includes a foreword by SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace, an introductory essay by André Leon Talley, and an in-depth interview with Becker.
This show runs concurrent to a solo show of works by Daniel Lismore titled “Be Yourself; Everyone Else is Already Taken”. Both shows open with a private preview on January 21; doors open to the public on January 22.