French Film Stars at the Payne Whitney Mansion
25 Portraits by the Famous Harcourt Studio
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La dame au chapeau
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Elsa Zilberstein
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Carole Bouquet
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Jeanne Moreau
Since 1934, the Harcourt Studio has been taking black and white portraits that are both luxurious and solemn. With its unique signature, evoking glory and elegance, marking each photo, Harcourt has fashioned a distinctive style in which it sculpts the faces of its subjects through the interplay of light and shade in a timeless décor. The studio’s history, intimately linked to the cinema, is built around actors and artists, but also politicians, sportsmen and other celebrities who come to pose under the lights of France’s most famous photography studio. “In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologie (1957).
This will be the Harcourt Studio’s first exhibit in the United States.
Admission: Free of charge.
Where / When
Dates:
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 Fifth avenue
between 78th and 79th streets
New York, NY 10075
212 439 1400
Written on Feb. 28, 08
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