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 gifted and quietly profound portraitists of the past fifty years—yet he remains almost entirely unknown to the wider public. As the official photographer for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Ignatiadis encountered many of the twentieth century’s most influential artists. He befriended them, photographed them, and, in his private practice, created images of such startling beauty, clarity, and depth that they transcend the traditional category of portraiture.
Éphéméride is the first of his works to be made widely available. In this limited edition, Ignatiadis has chosen seven of his most cherished portraits—of Jean Bertholle, Jean-Charles Blais, Francesco Clemente, Loïc Le Groumellec, Aurélie Nemours, Julian Schnabel, and Richard Serra—along with a special additional portrait of Irene Papas. Each image is presented as a signed and numbered heliogravure, hand-printed and housed in a bespoke, fabric-lined clamshell box designed to resemble a camera. The edition is strictly 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.