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BIOGRAPHY
Chronicling a world of beauty and style, photographer Rose Hartman has captured
fashion's trendsetters for three decades, and in so doing has helped to define what
we remember most about glamour and those who create it. Her lens has given order to the chaos of openings, runways shows, and couture's triumphs and tragedies, by letting the viewer see the substance behind the form. With her photographs appearing worldwide in books and publications such as Allure, Harper's Bazaar, New York, ,Vogue, W, The New York Times, Panorama, Stern and Vanity Fair, she has distinguished herself as a photographer whose eye is so keen, even her candid work has the finish and insight of portraiture.
What one fails to realize is that many of the photographs associated with a style, an
event, and an era, have belonged to Hartman, whether it is Bianca Jagger on a white horse as she enters Studio 54, or Isabella Rossellini at a private dinner in the Hamptons, Hartman has photographed everyone celebrated, innovative, and memorable in the worlds of fashion and society, and through her expert technique, given us more reasons to remember them.
While her photographs of people such as Halston, Diana Vreeland and Warhol
continue to herald her presence in the late seventies and eighties, no less significant are her images of today's fashion icons: Naomi Campbell, John Galliano, Iman, Karl Lagerfeld, and Kate Moss.
Any Hartman photograph however is never complete without knowing the story
behind it, for each of them is an illustration of one of fashion's many fables. Some
of the stories are intriguing, some of them compelling, but none of them short of
fascinating.
Whether it is Princess Diana, John Kennedy Jr., Anna Wintour or Donatella Versace, the grace, style, wit and charm of a Rose Hartman photograph continues
to be as legendary as the people who are her subjects. Her first book, BIRDS OF
PARADISE, An Intimate View of the New York Fashion World (Delacorte Press),
remains recognized as much as a collection of photographs, as a history of the
era it records; and the people who Hartman, through her brilliant eye, continues
to keep at the forefront of our consciousness.
Selected group exhibitions include "Framed" at the Dia Center, "The Warhol Look"
at the Whitney Museum, "The Cream of the Crop" at the Museum of the City of
New York, "The Last Party" at the Sorokko Gallery, "Front and Center" at the Pucci
Gallery, "Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights" at the Experience Music Project in
Seattle, Washington and the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
"Glamour and Glory" at the Gallery des Artistes in Moscow.
Hartman's photos are in the permanent collections of the Patterson Museum and
Saks Fifth Avenue and the private collections of Jerry Hall, Jane Holzer, Bianca Jagger, Ralph Rucci and Paul Wilmot.
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