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Swiss photographer Henry Leutwyler built an international career and has been acclaimed for his portraits of stars on covers of globally renowned magazines. In 1979, when he was just 17 years old, he discovered the work of Philippe Halsman at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. This was just one month after the death of this icon of twentieth-century photography. Thirty-eight years on, Henry Leutwyler delved into Philippe Halsman’s archives and spent several months staging his many personal belongings to create a biography of the photographer with 101 LIFE magazine covers to his name. Henry Leutwyler’s project Philippe Halsman. A Photographer’s Life pays a unique tribute to the artists he so greatly admires, while also evoking the era of analogue photography in today’s digital age. Exhibited in the Swiss Camera Museum, his work echoes the collection of objects relating to the history of photography.
Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
In collaboration with The Halsman Archive
A production by Images Vevey in collaboration with the Swiss Camera Museum
