The Select Interview: Gilles Bensimon takes shape in confidences
Common people know him as one of the greatest fashion photographers. The most divine ambassadors have posed, posed for her objective, internationally. If he launched several, he cannot take credit for them. Modesty requires. He liked it. Sublimated them all. By this unique look: sparkling and sensitive. His inspiration includes more than four decades of portraits. Black and white, colors, Gilles Bensimon will have been the eye of all the catwalks, of all the passing seasons. But also that of other galaxies: cinema, television, sport, music. So far, only those close to him are following, through morning Whatsapp notifications (New York time). And they know it, with a heart in love with another mode of expression than photography: drawing. Gilles Bensimon reveals his good papers (but not all), as the inspired student would hand in his copy. Driven by a great surge of enthusiasm, tempered by fear... Some of his works, which had long remained confidential, are on display: "fifty, precisely", smiles gallery owner Edouard Larock, 4th in a line of art enthusiasts. art. From today, its doors and picture rails open onto this…
