Tuesday 10 May 2016

2016 Cannes film festival photo exhibit appears at the back of the Scenes - WWD

FREEZE body: For the 2nd consecutive yr, inventive consulting company Finch & companions, which attracts a celeb-studded crowd with its annual Filmmakers Dinner right through the 2016 Cannes movie pageant, has teamed with Swiss luxurious watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre for a photograph exhibition celebrating the seventh artwork.

"The art of in the back of the Scenes" is curated by John Ingledew and showcases a variety of photographs taken on film units with the aid of the likes of Douglas Kirkland, Terry O'Neill and Dennis inventory.

among the many photographs featured this year are scenes from "Zabriskie aspect" directed via Michelangelo Antonioni, "a hard Day's night" with The Beatles, "excessive Society" with Grace Kelly and "Viva Maria" that includes Brigitte Bardot. They also consist of Alfred Hitchcock directing "infamous" in 1946 and Marilyn Monroe on the set of "The Misfits."

most of the photos are extraordinarily infrequent, and some have not ever been exhibited earlier than, in accordance with the organizers.

also on screen may be the Compass, a miniature camera created by means of LeCoultre & Cie in 1938 — small sufficient to slot in a cigarette pack but outfitted with a large number of facets such as an publicity meter, developed-in filters, a telescopic lens, a spread finder and angle viewfinder, as well as a tool for panoramic and stereoscopic views.

simplest four,000 cameras — "developed like a watch — as basic to make use of," as its slogan advertised, had been created by using the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland-based mostly manufacturer. "Haute horlogerie and the worlds of cinema and images share typical values: both create dreams and a way of ask yourself via aesthetic and technical mastery," mused Daniel Riedo, chief govt officer of Jaeger-LeCoultre.

The exhibition is slated to open might also 13 at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc at Cap d'Antibes and run through may 20.

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