LE PHOTOGRAPHE AMÉRICAIN BRYAN FINKE EXPOSE À PARIS
Ladies and gentlemen, the captain and crew would like to welcome you aboard… For his new series, Brian Finke offers us a peek into the exotic, polished world of the flight attendant. You’re flying British Airways, Icelandair, Tiger Airways or Cathay Pacific Airways; taxi and takeoff are imminent: fasten your seatbelts and raise your tray tables.
For two years, Brian Finke has flown around the world, from continent to continent, following people who have made their careers in the sky.
Finke’s photographs locate themselves in the tradition of ethnographic journalism. His natives dress in show costume, like the cheerleaders in his first series, or in the conventional suits worn by flight attendants; in other words, they are in uniform – today’s tribal masks. Brian Finke’s images render justly the trim polish of these resolutely glamorous women. Elise Legris-Heinrich
Born in Philadelphia in 1976, Brian Finke lives in New York.
GALERIE PHILIPPE CHAUME
“FLIGHT ATTENDANTS” – PHOTOGRAPHS by BRIAN FINKE
Opening September 11th, 2008, 6-9pm
9, rue de Marseille 75010 Paris – du mardi au samedi de 12h à 19h30
00 33 (0) 1 42 39 12 60 – 00 33 (0) 6 15 21 23 26
info@galeriephilippechaume.com – www.galeriephilippechaume.com

Brian Finke “Flight Attendants – Sara, Icelandair” 2007, Original C-Print, 40×40″. Courtesy Galerie Philippe Chaume, Paris.