Jeanloup Sieff is one of the most famous and idiosyncretic photographers in the world, whose work has influenced succeeding generations. He has created icons of fashion photography as well as landscapes, portraits and nudes, images which are inextinguishably inscribed in our minds.
Through a year-long relationship with the artist and his wife Barbara Sieff, curators has been given access to newly discovered unpublished material as revealed in the gallery above.
The photographs are stamped by the Estate and signed by Barabara Sieff; so they come directly from first hand.
The celebrated show at NRW Forum in 2007 was arranged by Ira Stehmann.
Jeanloup Sieff was born in Paris in 1933. His parents were Polish. He worked from the mid-fifties as a freelance photographer for Elle magazine,. From 1961 to 1966 he lived and worked in New York. Back in Paris he photographed for several magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Paris Match, Glamour, Esquire, Look, Vogue or Twen. He published many books of photography and exhibited his work worldwide in galleries and museums. He died in Paris in 2000.