Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson Start Price USD 300.00 Current Price USD 300.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 30, 2008 Location San Francisco, California See more about 'Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson' Description Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson by Mikhail Lemkhin. Silver gelatin prtint 8''x 10'', boarded 14'' x 17'', printed and signed by author. From limited edition of Forty-five. Buyer pays $20.00 for shipping within USA. With any questions write m@lemkhin.com or call (415) 664-7677; (415) 335-5303. Mikhail Lemkhin (www.lemkhin.com) was born in 1949 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia); in 1983 he emigrated to the United States, leaving behind a twenty-year career in photography and journalism. Given his first camera at the age of seven, Lemkhin has thought of himself as a photographer since he was eight. His first national recognition came in 1964, when his photographs were published in Sovietskoye Photo, the only Soviet photography magazine, followed the next year by an article about him featuring his photographs. Mikhail Lemkhin attended Leningrad University, 1967-1973, and received a M.A. in journalism and photojournalism. While at the university, he worked as a photographer for university departments and for the university newspaper. After receiving his degree, he worked as a free-lancer, as well as a staff journalist and photographer for various Leningrad newspapers and publications. He also worked as an advertising photographer for the Graphics Arts Agency (an agency of the Union of Soviet Artists), for which he produced more than 20 books. Lemkhin began making portraits of cultural figures when he was in his teens. He has made hundreds of portraits of Russian and Western cultural figures: poets, artists, film makers, dissident political figures, journalists, including Andrey Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, Andrey Tarkovsky, Derek Walcott, Czeslaw Milosz, Randy Newman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, Israel Lopez, Joseph Mankiewicz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seamus Heaney, David Mamet, Dizzy Gillespie, Joseph Brodsky and many others. His photographs have appeared in American and European periodicals including Nikon News, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Moscow News, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaia Gazeta, Ogoniok, Kommersant in Russia, Photographos Magazine in Athens, Greece, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), NRC/Handelsblad in Amsterdam, The Nederlands, Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm, Sweden, and others. Throughout his career, Mikhail Lemkhin participated in more than 50 photo exhibitions, including 31 personal exhibitions. His photography has been the subject of more than a hundred articles published in the USA and in Europe. His photographs are held in the collections of Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (Paris, France), The State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Anna Akhmatova Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia); a big collection of his photographs has been purchased by Stanford University (Green Library). His photographs are also being held in the private collections of Michelangelo Antonioni (Rome, Italy), Vaclav Havel (Prague, Czech Republic), Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (Dublin, Ireland, Maria Brodsky (New York), Nobel Laureate Derek Walkott (Trinidad), Olga and Henry Carlisle (San Francisco), Carl Djerassi (San Francisco), Sean Penn (San Francisco), Dusan Makavejev (Paris, France), Elliott and Rhoda Levinthal (Palo Alto), Manoel de Oliveira (Porto, Portugal), Otar Iosseliany (Paris, France), Vasiliy Livanov (Moscow, Russia), Maria Sinyavsky (Paris, France), Rose and Philip Kaufman (San Francisco), George Krevsky (San Francisco), Mikhail Piotrovsky (St. Petersburg, Russia), Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman (San Francisco), Wim Wenders (Berlin, Germany), Jonathan Linn (Washington), Yasushi Kojima (Tokyo, Japan), Joaquin Lens (La Coruna, Spain), Gidon Kremer (Paris, France) and others. Mikhail Lemkhin is also the author of several hundred articles, a dozen short stories, and a novella, all of which appeared in Russian, European, and American periodicals. He is a member of The International P.E.N. Club, of The Federation Internationale de L' Art Photographique, of The National Press Photographers Association, and a member of The International Association of Art Critics. In April 1995 Hermitage Publishers released his book MISSING FRAMES, a photo album of portraits of Russian, European, and American cultural figures. In April 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux released his next book, JOSEPH BRODSKY, LENINGRAD: FRAGMENTS. Place a Bid!