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Click on any photograph to see a larger image and caption information in a new browser window Return to Sony Gallery main page
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The Portraits of Van-Leo This premiere exhibition of our Virtual Gallery is now expanded to thirty-five photographs from the collection of portrait photographer Van-Leo, now housed in the Sony Gallery’s permanent collection at the AUC Van-Leo archives. Van-Leo’s dramatic portraits have been featured in three Sony Gallery shows: “Van-Leo: A Moveable Feast,” held in October 1998 in conjuntion with AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library; “Glamour as Genre,” held in Nov.-Dec. 1996; and from March 20 to May 10, 2001, "Van-Leo: The Chronology," also in conjunction with the Rare Books Library. Special thanks to Maha Ma'moun, Veronica Rodriguez, and Sadek Washi for helping put this online exhibition together. In Memorium Van-Leo: In Memorium: Van-Leo by Abdallah Schleifer, Director of the Adham Center There will never be another: an icon of a more refined age, Van-Leo passes on leaving a vast body of work by Negar Azimi, Rare Books and Special Collections Library, AUC Obituary: Leon Boyadjian (Van-Leo) by Nigel Ryan, Al-Ahram Weekly The Third Citizen: a conversation with Van-Leo by Akram Zaatari, the Arab Image Foundation Essays on Van-Leo's life and work: Van-Leo: Master Cairo Portrait Photographer by Barry Iverson, a founding member of the Sony Gallery International Advisory Board (catalog essay from “Van-Leo: A Moveable Feast”) Van-Leo: The Truth of Glamour by Nigel Ryan (catalog essay from the “Glamour as Genre” exhibition) Van-Leo: The Chronology by Veronica Rodriguez (catalog essay from the "Van-Leo: The Chronology" exhibition) Van-Leo's Unrivaled Images of Cairo's Belle Epoch by Fatma Bassiouni Van-Leo: The Discipline of a Rebel by Akram Zaatari, the Arab Image Foundation Sitting It Out by Nigel Ryan Van-Leo: Portraits of Glamour by Pierre Gazio
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