Marc Hispard is a fashion photographer born in France. At 15, he starts to work at professional photographic lab Pictorial Service in Paris in order to learn the bases of photography and at the same time in the evening studies at "Ecole du Louvre". At 18, he works as photographer for "Jardin des Modes".
After military duties he starts a long collaboration with the magazine ELLE in France. In 1963 he works in London for QUEEN Magazine and the British VOGUE , in Rome for ITALIAN VOGUE and for MADEMOISELLE in New-York. In 1886, he is one of the 3 photographers who started ELLE U-S-A In 1988 he makes of the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Swimsuit issue and from 1989 he contributes for VOGUE U-S-A, ITALIAN VOGUE, French GLAMOUR and French VOGUE.
He makes advertising campaigns for major companies all over the world as L?OREAL, REVLON, DIOR, VICTORIA SECRET, BIOTHERM and ESTEE LAUDER. He works as commercials for MACY?S and BURDINES and is the concept designer and director for the launch of the GIVENCHY perfume ORGANZA.
EXHIBITIONS
2001 : in Tokyo at the Bunkamura Gallery
2009 : in Paris at Laurent Strouk Gallery ( co-work with the painter Ruben Alterio).
2010 : at Art Paris.
THE EXHIBITION OF MARC HISPARD
A double bill
The retrospective of Marc Hispard's best fashion photographs taken during his career in France and in the United States of America comprises more than 40 medium-format prints measuring 60 x 80 cm and a number of larger prints. This exhibition is sure to attract fashion photography enthusiasts keen to take another look at top models of the great era, like Claudia Schiffer, Estelle Lefebure, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Karen Mulder. Marc Hispard belongs to the exclusive club of the world's greatest photographers in the tradition of Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino and the like.
And in parallel with this retrospective, we are presenting an extraordinary collaboration between Marc Hispard and the Argentinean painter Ruben Alterio, who combines figuration and abstraction and brings black & white and colour into play. This work is the result of two years'research designed to establish a dialogue between their respective arts by combining the photographic output with the pictorial. Marc Hispard's fashion photographs become the narrative part of the oeuvre and the starting-point of Ruben Alterio's pictorial work. Confronted with photorealism, Ruben Alterio opts for the wash-drawing technique, which heightens the painter's abstract interpretation. Once realized, Ruben Alterio's canvasses are re-photographed by Marc Hispard and juxtaposed with the photograph that inspired the painter. So the same print comprises the photograph and the canvas. Original to say the least, this approach will certainly appeal to all those interested in photography and contemporary painting.
