Scott Fitzgerald didn’t live long enough to write, but you know he would.”Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. In its introduction, Bono writes: “Villa Dorane seemed like a chapter F. Nearly half of the book is dead.” Pool Party, out this spring, is in part a tribute to good times gone by. “There’s also a lot of dead people, sadly enough. “Over the years people have changed, and there are new ones, too,” he says. Now he uses a small Sony point-and-shoot-no iPhone here. When they did, Pigozzi photographed them: initially with a Polaroid, à la Warhol, then with a Leica M4. Pigozzi is a collector-of art and of people, who often ended up at the pool. “It has been part of my entire life this pool is my little sister.” In November, a new exhibition exploring Newton’s globe-trotting life and his singular work titled Helmut Newton - Fact & Fiction will open in A Coruña, a port city in Spain’s northwest. I had all my summer holidays there,” Pigozzi says. I tried to kiss girls there for the first time. The first time I saw girls in bikinis there. “It’s reflecting over 60 years of this pool,” says Pigozzi, whose father, Henri, founded the French car company Simca and built Villa Dorane in 1953, the year after Johnny was born. The Joan Collins TV miniseries Monte Carlo was filmed there in 1986 there’s a group photo from Helmut Newton’s 68th birthday party in 1988 Elle Macpherson is pictured in a floatie on the cover, in 1991. Pigozzi currently lives and works between New York, London, Paris, and Antibes, France.“IT’S A BIT LIKE if you did a play on Broadway with only one set,” says Jean “Johnny” Pigozzi of Pool Party, a new book of his photographs published by Rizzoli that chronicles a decades-long cast of friends-including Jack Nicholson, Swifty Lazar, Jane Fonda, Shane Smith, Naomi Campbell, Larry Gagosian and Woody Allen-cavorting around his kidney-shaped pool at the Villa Dorane in Cap d’Antibes, in France. They succeed because they provoke and stimulate our reactions to them. The fashion and portrait photographs which have established his pre-eminent worldwide reputation are unsettling, disturbing and controversial. ![]() (2005–06) The Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2006–07) Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2011) CNAC–Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (2011) and Foundation Cartier, Paris (2015–16), among others. Helmut Newton’s photography is not concerned with picturing everyday reality. Works from Pigozzi's collections have been exhibited at institutions including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2005) National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Pigozzi is also an avid contemporary art collector: he founded the largest collection of contemporary African art in 1989, known as the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC-The Pigozzi Collection), and spearheaded the Japigozzi Collection of contemporary Japanese art in 2006. ![]() ![]() Pigozzi’s most recent body of work entitled, “Johnny’s Pool,” will be on view at Gagosian Gallery, New York, from April 12th to May 28th 2016. Recent group exhibitions include “Pigozzi and the Paparazzi,” Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin (2008) and “An Ear for Music, An Eye for Art: The Ahmet Ertegun Collection,” The Baker Museum, Florida (2013). Pigozzi’s work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions including Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (1974) Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, France (2010) “Johnny Stop!,” The Moscow House of Photography, Moscow (2011) and “My World, Jean Pigozzi,” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2014). in 1974 from Harvard University, Massachusetts. ![]() Jean “Johnny” Pigozzi was born in 1952 in Paris, France. Pigozzi often appears in his own photographs, affirming the role of the camera as a tool for his keen engagement with the world. His “sophisticated snapshots,” significantly influenced by Robert Frank and Helmut Newton, are candid and intimate: friends including Andy Warhol, Anjelica Huston, and Diane von Furstenberg, among others, are captured in scenes of social revelry or voluptuous leisure. While attending Harvard University, he made regular sojourns to New York City where he mingled with artists and tastemakers, taking photographs in close proximity. Jean Pigozzi picked up a Leica camera as an adolescent and began formulating a diaristic style that revolved around his observations of upper–class life.
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