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MELVIN SOKOLSKY, “DREAMS & BUBBLES”

By Denyse Beaulieu

Some visual artists shoot through their time with a comet-like brightness – as, just as for comets, we impatiently watch for their return. Marvin Sokolsky’s work, from 1959 to 1969, for groundbreaking magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar – when fashion photographers leave their studios and take to the streets – hijacks classic paintings from Vélasquez to Balthus, by injecting them with a Sixties vitality. The New Yorker’s career suddenly broke off in 1969, when he became a director and cameraman for television. In 2000, he returned to fashion photography, shooting for Vogue, Bazaar, Vibe and the New York Times, after his “historical” work crossed over from glossy publications into museums – it is part of the Victoria & A lbert Museum and the MOMA’s permanent collections. Fifty original prints will be exhibited at the Acte 2 Gallery, in a rare Parisian appearance of Sokolsky’s seminal Pop Age oeuvre.

Melvin Sokolsky, « Dreams and Bubbles », from March 20th to May 7th 2005.

Galerie Acte 2 Photographie – 41 rue d’Artois – 75008 Paris. T : 01.42.89.48.80 – www.acte2photo.com