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Jean Pigozzi

Johnny STOP!

November 7–December 23, 2010
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP! Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

Jean Pigozzi: Johnny STOP!

Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever

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Works Exhibited

Jean Pigozzi, Diane and Jean Pigozzi, Geneva Switzerland, 1991 Archival Pigment Print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Diane and Jean Pigozzi, Geneva Switzerland, 1991

Archival Pigment Print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Muhammad Ali, New York City, USA, 1978, 1978 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Muhammad Ali, New York City, USA, 1978, 1978

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Larry Gagosian, Charles Saatchi and Leo Castelli, St. Barthelemy, 1991, 1991 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Larry Gagosian, Charles Saatchi and Leo Castelli, St. Barthelemy, 1991, 1991

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Bono, Ron Wood and Mick Jagger, Mick's Birthday Party, Villa Dorane, Antibes, France, 1999, 1999 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Bono, Ron Wood and Mick Jagger, Mick's Birthday Party, Villa Dorane, Antibes, France, 1999, 1999

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Keith Richards, Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey, USA, 1981, 1981 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30

Jean Pigozzi, Keith Richards, Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey, USA, 1981, 1981

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30

Jean Pigozzi, Carla Bruni and Jean Pigozzi, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Carla Bruni and Jean Pigozzi, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Jack Nicholson and Willy Rizzo, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Jack Nicholson and Willy Rizzo, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Diane Von Furstenberg, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991 Archival pigment print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Diane Von Furstenberg, Venice, Italy, 1991, 1991

Archival pigment print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Bill Gates with Damien Hirst's shark, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA, 2007, 2007 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Bill Gates with Damien Hirst's shark, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA, 2007, 2007

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Jean Pigozzi and Henry, Villa Dorane, Antibes, France, 1992, 1992 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Jean Pigozzi and Henry, Villa Dorane, Antibes, France, 1992, 1992

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Paris, France, 1978, 1978 Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Paris, France, 1978, 1978

Archival pigment print, 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), edition of 30
© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Unknown, New York City, USA, 1979, 1979 Archival pigment print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15© Jean Pigozzi

Jean Pigozzi, Unknown, New York City, USA, 1979, 1979

Archival pigment print, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm), edition of 15
© Jean Pigozzi

About

Cartier-Bresson said that a photographer must be a hidden observer. I put myself in my pictures. That’s how little I am hidden.
—Jean Pigozzi

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Jean Pigozzi.

Photographer, collector, philanthropist and businessman, Pigozzi has spent much of the past four decades compiling a frank and lively photographic catalogue of the international glitterati with which he surrounds himself. Instead of writing a diary, he has kept a visual journal of his friends and social calendar, producing a brand of high-society portraiture that conveys his preference for celebrating life in the limelight, embracing the company of the rich and famous rather than stalking celebrities with a telephoto lens to reveal their secrets. The well-known series Pigozzi & Co. that he began in the 1970s turned the typical conception of the paparazzo on its head by inserting the photographer among his famous subjects, such as Gianni Agnelli, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, and Diane von Furstenberg. In recent years, his attention has shifted to portraiture, casual, low-key moments, and travel photographs.

At once insider and outsider, Pigozzi provides extended access to a world that is usually hidden from sight. His small Leica camera goes everywhere with him as an extension and defining element of his identity. In a photograph with Carla Bruni (1991), he poses for his own camera while Bruni gazes out to the side of the frame, flirtatiously engaged with an unseen subject. Diane and Jean Pigozzi, Geneva Switzerland (1991) reveals an endearing sense of play, as he snaps the cartoon-like face of his dog appearing between his legs, nuzzling his crotch; while his portrait of Bill Gates before the jaws of Damien Hirst’s notorious shark (2007) is at once humorous and iconic.

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