Portraits by Robin Holland September 25 - October 22 As part of the 44th New York Film Festival, The Film Society of Lincoln Center is pleased to present an exhibit of extraordinary photographs by one of New York’s best-known portrait photographers, Robin Holland. For this show she has selected 72 images of the most renowned filmmakers and actors to grace the Film Society’s silver screen over the past 25 years.
Portraits by Robin Holland is free and open to the public. The photographs are on display in the Walter Reade Theater’s Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at Lincoln Center. Gallery hours are 2-8 pm daily.
The images in this exhibit include portraits of directors of the Neue Deutsche Kino such as Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog; American mavericks of several generations, Sam Fuller, Douglas Sirk, Shirley Clarke, Melvin Van Pebbles, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh and Wes Anderson; and international masters Ousmane Sembene, Mike Leigh and Eric Rohmer. The images were shot on medium format color and black & white film and printed as 16 x 20 digital C prints using a Durst Lambda printer. Eastman Kodak is sponsoring the exhibit and produced the prints.
Robin Holland who was born and raised in Yonkers, New York, graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers and received a B.A. in literature and creative writing from SUNY Binghamton.
She has been photographing artists, writers, filmmakers and actors in her Tribeca studio and on location for nearly 25 years. Her work has been published in the Village Voice, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Film Comment and Sight and Sound, among other publications.
“It all began in 1982 with Wim Wenders,” said the artist. “I tracked him down in Salzburg where he was directing a play and persuaded him to let me photograph him outside the theater. We hit it off and I asked if I could shoot stills for his next film and he said yes. But I think he probably said yes to a lot of people and then somebody had to sort it all out. The film turned out to Paris, Texas and I was hired exactly a year later.”
During the mid 1980s Holland began taking photographs of directors and actors participating in the New York Film Festival, capturing rising directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Wong Kar Wai, Claire Denis, David Lynch and George Clooney, whose portraits are also included in the exhibit. “I have always been fascinated by film and love hearing what creative people have to say, although I occasionally enjoy the calm of a still life project,” Holland added.
Holland’s work with filmmakers and actors was recently featured on Sundance Channel. In 2005, she exhibited portraits of actors and directors at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, and had an image included in “Isabelle Huppert: Portrait of a Woman,” a show at P.S. 1. She has also shown at White Columns (New York) and the Berlin Film Festival.
This exhibit is dedicated to the loving memory of Doris S Holland
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Photos in order shown: Isabelle Huppert, NYC, 9/27/94; Robert Altman, NYC, 8/19/03; Claire Denis, NYC, 3/25/00; David Lynch, NYC, 10/4/01; Marisa Paredes, NYC, 10/13/95; Michael Haneke, NYC, 10/9/05; Richard Linklater, NYC, 5/16/06; Werner Herzog, NYC, 11/1/99; Liv Ullmann, NYC, 10/19/04.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents curated exhibits in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater that either compliment the programming or are film related art shows. Inaugurated in 1991, the space was designed by prestigious architectural firm Davis Brody and named in honor of the Furmans, longtime supporters of the Film Society.
