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Philippe Lévy-Stab

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Born in 1967, lives and works in Paris.

For 35 years, Philippe Lévy-Stab has combined the art of photography with that of jazz with portraits of the artists who represent this music. Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Wynton Marsalis ... views of New York, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, Harlem ...

He has made numerous solo exhibitions in France, Asia, the United States and some group exhibitions alongside some of the biggest names in photography: Jean-Pierre Leloir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, Roy DeCarava ...

2022, Salle Pleyel Paris "TSF Jazz / You & The Night & The Music". Espace Mado Robin, Paris. 2019, Espace Dupon Paris, Vannes Photos Festival, Château Palmer à Margaux.  

Recently Louis Vuitton has acquired three exhibitions for Japan and the United States.  

At UNESCO, a new solo exhibition "JAZZ, THE SOUND OF NEW YORK" presented with the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, bringing together the works of William P. Gottlieb and Herman Leonard.

His images are present in the permanent collections of the most prestigious museums and international photographic institutions, Modern Art Gallery Taiwan, Elysee Museum Lausanne, National Portrait Gallery London, The Library of Congress Washington DC, St. Louis Art Museum, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Spencer Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC, Portland Art Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC

Alongside his artistic activity, he produces album covers for the labels Riverside, HighNote, Sunnyside, RMM, Naïve, SpaceTime, Blue Note, Impulse! Records...

Regularly exhibited, published all over the world and present in the largest collections in Europe, Asia and America, Philippe Lévy-Stab's work is one of the remarkable contributions of photography to music.

Through sumptuous black-and-white prints that he produces himself, on fiber base paper in the traditional rules of silver production, Philippe Lévy-Stab expresses his admiration and talent.  

These collection prints are stamped, signed, numbered and limited to 25, 15 and 5 copies for 40x50cm, 50x60cm and 100x100cm formats. They are available for sale.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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50 solo exhibitions on the theme of jazz

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.Salle Pleyel, Paris. TSF Jazz / You & The Night & The Music 2022.

Vannes Photos festival 2019, Espace Dupon-Phidap, Château Palmer 2019…

The Modern Art Gallery - Taiwan, The Accton Art Foundation Taiwan, Blue Note Festival Drugstore Publicis, 

La Grande Halle de la Villette, Château de Candé - Touraine, Galerie chambre claire - Annecy, 

Galerie 14 Toucy, Louis Vuitton Nagoya Sakae Japan, Laboratoire Dupon Montmartre, Le Lutetia Paris, 

Louis Vuitton Atlanta USA, Louis Vuitton Short hills New Jersey USA, UNESCO Paris.

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RECENT PROJECTS 

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.Salle Pleyel, Paris. TSF Jazz / You & The Night & The Music 2022.

Centre Mado Robin - Paris, 2022.

Château Palmer 2019 Solo exhibition "Jazz, The Sound of New York". 

Vannes Photos festival 2019 Solo exhibition "Jazz, The Sound of New York". 

Espace Dupon-Phidap 2019 Group exhibition. Works of Jean-Pierre Leloir, Guy Le Querrec...
Aperture Gallery New York - What matters now? Exhibition in progress. Deborah Willis.
Louis Vuitton Short Hills New Jersey - USA. Permanent exhibition.
Laboratoire DUPON Montmartre Paris. "Jazz, The Sound of New York". Solo exhibition.

Louis Vuitton Atlanta Georgia - USA. Permanent exhibition.
The Modern Art Gallery - Taiwan. Solo exhibition.

Louis Vuitton, Nagoya Sakae - Japan. Permanent exhibition.
New York University - Tisch Buildind "Posing Beauty in African American Culture".
Visa pour l'Image 2009 / 21ème Festival International du Photo-journalisme
CORBIS Agency, projections "Le Jazz fête ses 100 ans".
Galerie chambre claire, Annecy. Solo exhibition.
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Let Your Motto Be Resistance".
Dorothy's Gallery, Paris. "Art & Music"
Centre d'animation Vercingétorix - Paris. "Jazz à New York"
Galerie 14 - Dominique et Ricky Ford, Toucy en Bourgogne. "L’habitat traditionnel Lobi, Burkina Faso"
Centre d'animation Marc Sangnier - Paris. "Jazz à New York"
New Morning, Paris. Permanent exhibition.
Galerie 14 - Dominique et Ricky Ford, Toucy en Bourgogne. "Plénitude"
Galerie Evolution Pierre Cardin, ArtAuction / Laboratoire DUPON. 
Photographies Contemporaines 120x120cm

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PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

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Louis Vuitton - Nagoya Sakae, Japon. 

Louis Vuitton - Short Hills New Jersey, USA.

Louis Vuitton - Atlanta Georgia, USA.

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New Morning, Paris.

Duc des Lombards, Paris.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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.Espace DUPON 2019 

Œuvres de Bruno Ducourant, Tony Frank, Dominique Tarlé, 

Pierre Terrasson, Jean-Pierre Leloir et Guy Le Querrec.

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UNESCO - Paris

Solo exhibition "Jazz, The Sound of New York" 

with the collection of the National Museum of American History, 

Smithsonian Institution - Washington D.C.

Works of Herman Leonard, William P. Gottlieb.

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" Posing Beauty in African American Culture "

African American Images from the 1890's to the Present.

Curator : Deborah Willis. 

Works of James VanDerZee, Robert Mapplethorpe, 

Seydou Keita, Weegee, Gordon Parks, Bruce Davidson, Cecil Beaton, Man Ray …

2009 - New York University - Tisch Building, New York.
2010 - Art Gallery of Hamilton - Hamilton Ontario, Canada.
2010 - Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA
2011 - Newark Museum Newark, NJ
2011 - USC Fisher Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA 

2012 - College of Wooster Art Museum | Wooster, OH

2012 - Everhart Museum - Scranton, PA

2012 - Figge Art Museum - Davenport, IA

2013 - Spelman College Museum of Art - Atlanta, GA

2014 - Evansville Museum - Evansville, IN

2014 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Richmond, VA

2016 - Northwest African American Museum - Seattle, WA
2017 - SNAP! Space - Orlando, FL

2017 - Mobile Museum of Art - Mobile, AL

2019 - David C. Driskell Center

2020 - University of Maryland, Baltimore

2021 - Delaware Art Museum

2021 - Flint Institute of Arts - Flint, Michigan
2022 - New Jersey State Museum - Trenton, New Jersey
2023 - Harn Museum of - Gainesville, Florida 

(January 30, 2023 - June 4, 2023)
2023 - Kent State University Museum - Kent, Ohio

(August 17, 2023 - December 17, 2023)
2024 - Taft Museum of Art - Cincinnati, Ohio

(February 1, 2024 - April 30, 2024)

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Portland Art Museum, Oregon - USA  « New On The Wall »  

The Adams Foyer and Copeland Gallery - 2008

Curator : Terry Toedtemeier. 

Works of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt... 

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« Let Your Motto Be Resistance : African American Portraits »

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C

Collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

Curator : Deborah Willis. 

Works of Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, 

Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten... Curator Deborah Willis. 

2007 - International Center of Photography, New York.
2008 - National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C
2009 - California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009 - Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
2009 - Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2009 - Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton, NJ
2009 - Museum of African American History, Boston, MA
2010 - Atlanta History Center, Atlanta GA.
2010 - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL

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The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA - USA « A History of Photography ».

The american civil war, the civil rights movement

Curator : Brooks Johnson

Works of Gustave Hergaux, Otto Steinert, Abelardo Morell, Roy DeCarava...

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AuctionArt & DUPON Laboratoire « Photographies Contemporaines 120X120cm ».

Galerie Evolution / Pierre Cardin - Paris, 2008.

Works of Olivier Föllmi, Guy Le Querrec, Stanley Greene, Hans Silvester, William Klein...

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 La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris. « Jazz Hors Scène » .

Organized by ANJRPC
Works of Sabine Weiss, Williams Klein,Jean-Pierre Leloir, Jean-Loup Sieff, Henri Cartier-Bresson…

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COLLECTIONS

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Modern Art Gallery - Taiwan 

The Detroit Institute of Arts - USA 

The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS - USA

Saint Louis Art Museum - USA

The Library of Congress, Washington D.C 

The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA - USA

Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne - Switzerland

Portland Art Museum, OR - USA

The National Portrait Gallery, London

Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Paris

National Museum of African American History and Culture,
Smithsonian Institution - Washington D.C.

The National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution - Washington D.C

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EDITIONS - Group projects

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" Posing Beauty in African American Culture "

African American Images from the 1890's to the Present. Deborah Willis.
 Edition : W W Norton & Company Inc

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" Let Your Motto Be Resistance : African American Portraits ". Deborah Willis.
Smithsonian Books Editions / National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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"Jazz en Suite " Franck Médioni. 
Editions du Garde-temps.

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COLLECTION GELATIN SILVER PRINTS

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PRESS

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The collection is distributed worlwide by Corbis Agency - New York..

 For France : Jazz News, Le Monde Magazine, L'Express, le Nouvel Obs, Jazz Hot, Jazzman, Télérama,...

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BIOGRAPHY

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Philippe Lévy-Stab lives and works in Paris.  

Born in 1967, he linked photography to Jazz at the age of 15.

A graduate with merit in visual communications from the French School of Technical Education (EFET), he has a CAP (Certificat d’Aptitude Professionnelle) in photography with an option in Laboratory. He spent three years as assistant to the renowned photographer Olivier Paris, a specialist in shots of jewellery and top brand cars.

Since 1985 he has taken portraits of his idols, namely Art Blakey, Woody Shaw, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard… His work based on Jazz and its artists has continued ever since. 

In 1989, he opened his studio in the Rue de la Jonquière in Paris where he has not only welcomed jazzmen but also great French classical soloists.

Alongside his art photography work, cinema directors Gérard Krawczyk, Luc Besson, Catherine Breillat, Bernard Stora, Richard Berry… have called on him as set photographer for his aestheticism, precision and discretion.

In June 2001, he opened his gallery in Rue Leneveux in Paris, where his work on Nature and Jazz are permanently exhibited.  

Philippe Lévy-Stab has had some fifty personal exhibitions and taken part in several collective shows alongside photography’s greatest names : William Klein, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sabine Weiss, Jean-Pierre Leloir, Jean-Loup Sieff, Roy DeCarava…  

Today he brings the art of photography to that of Jazz, with portraits of the artists that symbolize this music. Via the spectacular black and white prints that he develops himself, Philippe Lévy-Stab expresses his admiration, his passion and his talent.  

His photographs may be found in the permanent collections of the most prestigious international museums and photographic institutions.  

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James Brown. Paris, 2002.

20 x 24" / 50 x 60 cm

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Could the inventors of photography, Niepce and Daguerre, ever have imagined that their successors, photographers, would over time not only perfection the processes of reproducing objects and people, but in some way sign their work with such strong characteristic styles that, in a given context, the photograph suggests as clearly the name of the photographer… as that of the person photographed.  

For a connoisseur, a photo by Leloir, Bibbs, Herman Leonard, is as unmistakably signed as might be a solo by Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young…     

A young photographer, Philippe Lévy-Stab, is the worthy disciple of those named above. His photos carry his signature as plainly as his subject is designated.  

They will all grab your attention, but a long time hence, the images that Philippe Lévy-Stab conjured up one fine day of Ernie Barnes, Jon Faddis, Tom Harrel, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Mabern… will remain in your memory and your imagination.

Maurice CULLAZ

(1912-2000)

Journalist, Producer for Radio France,

Co-founder in 1935 of the magazine Jazz Hot,

President of  the "Académie du Jazz"

“Nothing is too good for Maurice… he fought for us when it wasn’t the trend” James Brown.

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序言--菲利浦‧雷維史達

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  喜歡聽爵士樂很多，懂得聽爵士樂的人也不少，但是 “看” 爵士樂呢？音樂是無形的，是飄揚在空中的音符，音樂如何成為看得見的影像？什麼又才是爵士樂的影像？

  攝影師菲利浦‧雷維史達找到了答案：他捕捉爵士樂手演奏時全力付出、渾然忘我的陶醉神情，剎那永恆，使樂手群像成為爵士視覺表徵。

  其實無需再強調菲利浦‧雷維史達技術層面上的優異表現，他對光線及構圖技巧精準掌握，早已讓他在攝影界佔了一席之地。但我認為他的作品之所以能帶給觀賞者一種無名的感動，乃是在於他有時像仰慕者充滿愛意，有時又像爵士樂手多年好友般默契十足，加上攝影師天生的敏銳，心意與技術相結合才能攝下這一幕幕動人真摯的畫面。

  菲利浦‧雷維史達的構圖精簡，喜在深色背景之上突顯主題人物。如果艾爾曼‧里歐納致力在作品中捕捉樂手與觀眾的熱情互動；菲利浦‧雷維史達則成功地讓觀賞者進入主題人物的內心世界，彷彿與之展開一次面對面的私密談話。頓時，周圍只有我、他與爵士樂…

社會學家皮耶‧布迪厄曾說：攝影的功用之一是填補人們記憶中心靈視覺經驗的空缺。在菲利浦‧雷維史達的攝影裡，畫面就是一種視覺經驗；感動就是一種心靈經驗。沒有空缺，而是創造。  

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The Modern Art Gallery - Taiwan

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Music lovers love to listen to Jazz, true connoisseurs love to hear the Jazz… But if vision takes the place of hearing, could our eyes ‘look at’ Jazz? Music is virtual, the vibration of air. How can it be visualised? What is the image of music?

Philippe Lévy-Stab brings us his answer to this question, the answer of a photographer; the artists that have given their bodies and souls to Jazz are those that best symbolize this music.

There is no need to sing the praises of Philippe Lévy-Stab’s technical skill here, nor of his perfect control of light and his unique shots that are a veritable photographical feat. On the other hand, I feel the need to say how the emotion and strength of his work as a portrait artist come from his love of music and his admiration for musicians. With this passion and complicity he captures these intense moments of movement and expression.

Herman Léonard shows musicians in touch with their audience and surroundings. Philippe Lévy-Stab brings us to an intimate tête-à-tête with the artist, far from the swarming crowds of the heaving clubs… Just the jazzman, his music and me.  

Pierre Bourdieu put forward the idea that photography serves to fill the emptiness in man’s memories and experiences. That of Philippe Lévy-Stab is plentiful in itself, its image creating the most precious of memories and its spectacle the most memorable of experiences.

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Shih Li-Jen

Director, The Modern Art Gallery - Taiwan

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