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Laurent Elie Badessi (born November 27, 1964 in Avignon, France) is a French photographer and artist based in New York City.〔(Focusing on the Photographers: Laurent Elie BADESSI | Anne Fontaine Foundation )〕〔(Tepper Takayama Fine Arts - Laurent Elie Badessi )〕〔(Laurent Elie Badessi Photography )〕〔(Art in America: Annual guide to galleries, museums, artists - Google Boeken )〕〔(Skin - Google Boeken )〕 He is a fourth generation photographer. Badessi frequently uses symbolism, mythology, and historical and cultural references in his work. The study of trust that develops between the photographer and the sitter and the exploration of the power of the photographic medium on people, are both fundamental vectors in his artistic quest. His photographs often addresses subtle and relevant questions on social, political and cultural issues, such as the relationship with nudity, religion, the environment, war or the fragility of life. Most of the time, he sketches his images, so rarely anything in them has not a specific reason to be. ==Early life== Badessi the son of French photographer Elie Badessi and Catalan Maria Louisa Rovira Font was raised in France. Badessi was first interested in painting and filmmaking, but at the age of fifteen, he chose photography as his chief form of artistic expression. While studying language and communication sciences with a focus on journalism and advertising at the Université des Lettres in Avignon, he experimented with photography. He spent hours taking photos of people and soon, started to draw attention to his work by winning prestigious photography contests such as the Guy Laroche Drakkar Prize. Before moving to Paris, Badessi’s first noteworthy photograph was published in Paris’ Vogue Hommes magazine. The black and white portrait was exhibited as part of the Condé Nast retrospective at the Centre Photographique et d’Audiovisuel de la Ville de Paris (1986), along with photographs by Irving Penn, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Annie Leibovitz that had been taken throughout the years for the company’s various prestigious titles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurent Elie Badessi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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