Simple Pleasures: The Artful Pose
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” — Brigitte Bardot
Terry O’Neill, Brigitte Bardot, Spain, 1971, Silver gelatin photograph
Lawrence Schiller, Marilyn Monroe, 1962, Digital C-Print
Roy Schatt, James Dean, 1954, Silver gelatin photograph
Helen Levitt, New York (Foreign Legion), 1940, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Diane Arbus, Mildred Dunnock, N.Y.C, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Patrick Demarchelier, Nude, New York, 1975, Selenium / Toned Silver Gelatin Photograph
Patrick de Warren, Clara, 1999, Digital Chromogenic Photograph
Richard Avedon, Ingrid Boulting, Coat by Dior, Paris studio, 1970, Silver gelatin photograph
Helmut Newton, Chez Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, 1974, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Herb Ritts, Man With Chain, Los Angeles, 1985, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Lawrence Schiller, Sophia Loren & Carlo Ponti at the Academy Awards Dinner, 1962, Archival Pigment Photograph
Albert Watson, Man in Shadows, New York City, 1997
Jim Lee, Ice Pick/ 2020, 2021, Archival Pigment Photograph
Horst P. Horst, Coco Chanel, Paris, 1937, Silver gelatin photograph
Norman Seeff, Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith, New York, “Robert & Patti II”, 1969, Archival pigment photograph
Clive Arrowsmith, Bowie Twisting (back in color), London Studio, 1977, Archival Pigment Photograph
Will McBride, Barbara McBride Smoking, Starnberg, 1965, Silver gelatin photograph
André Kertész, Satiric Dancer, 1926, Silver gelatin photograph
Simple Pleasures is an ongoing series curated by Holden Luntz Gallery, presenting a selection of our favorite pictures organized thematically.
We hope you find these photographs as a gentle reminder that there are always simple pleasures to be found .