Thursday, October 29, 2015

Reaction Paper 1

Brigitte Lacombe followed her dream and dropped out of high school at age 17 to pursue the medium. She took her first camera, a Nikon F, given to her by her father. And began working at Elle in Paris. French photographer Brigitte Lacombe now loves in New York City.

Brigitte solo exhibit “Brigitte Lacombe: Complicites” is on view at PHILLIPS Galleries in New York. Her loves are portraits and travel. She works as a special photographer on the films of Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze, Bennett Miller, Sam Mendes, Michael Haneke, David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, James Gray, among others.

She contributes to Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, New York Magazine, German Vogue, Zeit Magazine, Neue Journal, and many others.

Brigitte was awarded The Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography in 2000. The Art Directors Club Hall of Fame “Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography” in 2010. And the Lucie Award for “Achievement in Travel and Portraiture” in 2012.


Brigitte is currently at work on her third book of personal photo’s to be published in 2017.


1 comment:

  1. Your reaction papers should be on something that you have experienced....did you attend this exhibition? If so, what were your observations?

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