Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey

“Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey” explores the wide-ranging motifs, approaches and media that define Karl Lagerfeld’s astute and intensely personal interpretation of photography. The exhibition reveals Lagerfeld’s many areas of interest including architecture, landscapes, Paris by night, portraits and self-portraits, fashion photography, and abstractions (an interest in the graphic characterizes many of his photos, regardless of their subject). From the beginning of his photographic career in 1987, Lagerfeld has concerned himself as much with different photographic exposure and printing techniques, as with his compositions themselves. For him a photo is never just an image, but a visual object whose identity depends on the medium in which he brings it to life. “Karl Lagerfeld, A Visual Journey” thus presents the full spectrum of Lagerfeld’s photographic media, including daguerreotypes, platinotypes, Polaroid transfers, resinotypes, Fresson prints, screen-prints and digital prints.