Conde Nast To Present Exhibition Of Rare Photos As First-Time
Partner Of Art Basel Miami Beach
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Conde Nast
announces today its first-ever participation in Art Basel Miami
Beach (December 6-9), where the
company will exhibit a specially curated show of photographs from
the new book and global exhibition Coming Into Fashion: A
Century of Photography at Conde Nast.
Conde Nast is collaborating with Art
Basel for the first year as lounge host and partner. The
accompanying exhibit within the "Art Collectors Lounge" will bring
together a selection of rare photographs and original prints from
the Conde Nast archives in New
York, Paris, Milan and London. It is the first project of this scope
and magnitude to present early work by Conde Nast contributors who
went on to become some of the biggest names in the history of
fashion photography.
The 28 photos shown at Art Basel Miami Beach will provide U.S.
audiences a sneak peek of Coming Into Fashion, which will
hit U.S. shores in 2014 as part of its global tour. The exhibition
kicked off this past August at the C/O Berlin museum to
record-setting crowds and will next appear in Milan, beginning January 2013.
Conde Nast's freshly curated show at Art Basel Miami Beach will
be divided into four chronological "chapters" and will showcase
work originally published in Vogue, British Vogue,
Glamour and Vanity Fair from such renowned
photographers as Edward Steichen,
Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, John
Rawlings, Constantin Joffe,
Erwin Blumenfeld, Serge Balkin, Diane
Arbus, Clifford Coffin,
Bert Stern, David Bailey, Deborah
Turbeville, Denis Piel,
Herb Ritts, Ellen von Unwerth, Corinne Day, Raymond
Meier and Sebastian Kim,
among others.
"Many of our brands have been attending Art Basel Miami Beach
for years, and after experiencing it for myself firsthand, I was
inspired by its breadth, scope and import in the art and design
community," said Chuck Townsend, CEO
of Conde Nast. "I encouraged my creative team to come up with an
exhibit that is global in scale and of timely significance. Given
the unique influence of the Conde Nast brands, we are the only
magazine publisher that could find its home at Art Basel Miami
Beach."
The Conde Nast lounge, presented in partnership with Microsoft,
will have the look and presence of a freestanding art exhibit.
Visitors will also have access to a specially created app―available
exclusively on the Microsoft Surface tablet and only at Art Basel
Miami Beach―that offers a virtual tour with additional audio and
text content.
For more information on Art Basel
and Art Basel Miami Beach, please visit www.artbasel.com.
Conde Nast is home to some of the world's most celebrated media
brands. In the United States,
Conde Nast publishes 18 consumer magazines, four
business-to-business publications, 27 websites and more than 50
apps for mobile and tablet devices, all of which define excellence
in their categories. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media
(FFM), whose portfolio of brands serves as the leading source of
news and analysis for the global fashion community. Conde Nast has
won more National Magazine Awards over the past 10 years than all
of its competitors combined. For more information, visit
condenast.com or follow us on Twitter @CondeNastCorp.
SOURCE Conde Nast