Konstantinos Ignatiadis
ÉPHÉMÉRIDE
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ÉPHÉMÉRIDE
EDITION DETAILS
Limited edition of seven (plus one) heliogravures encased in a tray within a cloth-bound clamshel box, authenticity certificate, signed and numbered /250
BOX SIZE
300 × 220 mm
HELIOGRAVURES
Eight portraits, 150 × 210 mm, individually signed, hand-numbered, encased in cloth-bound tray
PORTRAITS
LEAD TIME
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Jean Bertholle
Richard Serra
Aurelie Nemours
Francesco Clemente
Jean-Charles Blais
Julian Schnabel
Loïc Le Groumellec
Irene Papas
Konstantinos Ignatiadis is one of the most talented and profound portraitists of the last half century – while at the same time he has remained almost virtually unknown to the wider public. Working as official photographer for the collection and exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Ignatiadis met and worked with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, befriended them, and photographed them for his private practice, producing photographic meditations of such unspeakable beauty, clarity, and sincerity that they go far beyond what is traditionally thought of as ‘portrait photography’.
In Éphéméride, his first work to be widely available, Ignatiadis has selected seven of his favourite photographs (portraits of Jean Bertholle, Jean-Charles Blais, Francesco Clemente, Loïc Le Groumellec, Aurélie Nemours, Julian Schnabel, and Richard Serra), plus an extra portrait of Irene Papas, to be the subjects of signed and numbered hand-produced heliogravures, encased in a bespoke fabric-lined clamshell box that resembles a camera. The edition is limited to 250 copies worldwide.
The photographer Konstantinos Ignatiadis was born in 1958 in Ioannina, Greece. After brief studies in Physics and Mathematics, he left for Paris where he remained until the turn of the last century. During his twenty-year-long stay, he met, mingled, lived, and socialized with an impressive array of intellectuals and artists, while at the same time working as a photographer for the Centre Georges Pompidou M.N.A.M. in charge of photographing its impressive collection and contemporary exhibitions. He has shot for major publications, among which Jean Dubuffet’s prints, as well as Daniel Cordier’s, Henri Creuzevault’s, and Yvon Lambert’s private art and book collections.