Jonathan Becker: Lost Time
July 14, 2024 - January 26, 2025 Get ticketsThe Katonah Museum will present Jonathan Becker: Lost Time from July 14, 2024, to January 26, 2025. This exhibition is guest curated by Mark Holborn in conjunction with the artist's monograph, by Phaidon. Spanning Becker’s illustrious career from his formative period in Paris as a protégé of Brassaï through today, his work features some of the most fascinating and important subjects across contemporary culture. Whether celebrated within the pages of Vanity Fair and Vogue or gracing museum walls, Jonathan Becker remains one of the leading visual storytellers of our time.
The monograph, Jonathan Becker: Lost Time, is available for sale at the KMA. Bringing together commissioned and personal work, this stunning collection presents more than 200 images from across Becker’s career, charting his journeys in New York, Paris, London, and Buenos Aires from the 1970’s to the 2010’s. Portraits of artists Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman, writers Arthur Miller and Eudora Welty, musicians David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and others reveal Becker’s exceptional eye and astute sociological observations. Published by Phaidon.
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Jonathan Becker: Lost Time features more than fifty of the artist’s photographs of influential figures from the worlds of politics, fashion, arts, and culture. Captured through the lens of his Rolleiflex camera, the striking, square-format images reveal intimate, closely observed scenes that serve as both timely and timeless portraits. Becker’s mastery of light, shadow, and saturation is evident across his work in both black and white and color mediums, evinced by the lush, velvety charcoal tones and dazzling chromatic range of his prints.
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Jonathan Becker: Lost Time is supported by the Katherine C. and David E. Moore Exhibition Fund and The Director’s Circle of the Katonah Museum of Art: Mike Davies, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Vida Foubister, Nisa Geller, Virginia L. Gold, Kirsti Kroener and Nicholas Kronfeld, Linda Nordberg, Amy Parsons, Yvonne S. Pollack, Rochelle C. Rosenberg, Rebecca Samberg, and Richard and Audrey Zinman. In kind support has been generously provided by Phaidon. The Katonah Museum of Art is proud to be a grantee of ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with the support of County Executive George Latimer.
