Movie legends photographed by Canadian Douglas Kirland are on display in Mestre

With his photographs, Douglas Kirkland(Toronto, 1934) has portrayed the movie legends of the past 60 years, starting with Marilyn Monroe when, at only 24 years old, the photographer portrayed her covered only with white sheets, and then immortalized figures such as Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Dominique Sanda, Sofia Loren, Peter O’Toole, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslet and many others.

Now, the Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre, in collaboration with Photo Op, pays tribute to the artist with the exhibition Freeze Frame, 60 Years Behind the Scenes of Cinema, which, from Feb. 15 to April 19, 2020, highlights crucial moments in his career.

As Cristina Comencini wrote, “Douglas Kirkland knows that the image must be concise and rich, containing so much information at once, because in cinema (and photography) you have little time to tell and you have to say so many things. Douglas indulges his instincts, takes risks, searches. Beauty does not interest him as an end in itself, he wants to stop life, which is why he is one of the greatest ’freeze frame’ filmmakers of our time, as precarious and unstable as cinema.”

In his career, Kirkland has also photographed the scenes of some of cinema’s greatest productions, both independent and colossal, such as Butch Cassidy (1969), New York, New York (1977), Sophie’s Choice (1982), My Africa (1985), Titanic (1997), Moulin Rouge! (2001), I Am Love (2009) and The Great Gatsby (2013), to name a few.

The review is curated by Marta Cannoni, Livia Corbò and Elisabetta Da Lio and produced with the technical support of Canon and Moab Paper.

For all information you can visit the official website of Photo Op.

Movie legends photographed by Canadian Douglas Kirland are on display in Mestre

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