Gérard Musy

Gérard Musy’s striking black-and-white images capture the bold energy of 1980s nightlife and fashion. From backstage runways to fetish-club icons, his lens celebrates powerful, seductive, and defiant women.

Paris
Vintage Gelatin silver print
18,5 x 28 cm
2002
Geneve
Gelatin silver print
54 x 81 cm
1984
Paris
Vintage Gelatin silver print
28 x 18,5 cm
1992

Gérard Musy

Gérard Musy’s striking black-and-white images capture the bold energy of 1980s nightlife and fashion. From backstage runways to fetish-club icons, his lens celebrates powerful, seductive, and defiant women.

Gérard Musy saisit en noir et blanc l’énergie des nuits et de la mode des années 1980. Entre coulisses de défilés et icônes des clubs fétiches, son regard célèbre des femmes puissantes, séductrices et insolentes.

Biography

Biographie

Gérard Musy was born in 1959 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. In 1983, while still a student at the University of Geneva, he began to photograph New York nights. In the sophisticated black and white of the "Sexy Eighties", he photographed the collections of the greatest fashion designers as well as the creatures dressed in leather, latex and glitter that reigned over the nightlife of Paris, London or New York. At a time when photographers were crowding around the catwalks, Gérard Musy, with his Leica, was one of the first to take over the backstage. Women are the heroines of his photos: seductive, conniving, sultry or dominating.

Gérard Musy est né en 1959 à La Chaux-de-Fonds, en Suisse. En 1983, alors encore étudiant à l’Université de Genève, il commence à photographier les nuits new-yorkaises. Dans le noir et blanc sophistiqué des Sexy Eighties, il immortalise les collections des plus grands créateurs de mode, ainsi que les créatures vêtues de cuir, de latex et de paillettes qui régnaient sur les nuits de Paris, Londres ou New York. À une époque où les photographes se bousculaient autour des podiums, Gérard Musy, armé de son Leica, fut l’un des premiers à investir les coulisses. Les femmes sont les héroïnes de ses images : séductrices, complices, sensuelles ou dominantes.

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L’Œil Fertile

Paris
29.11
03.03.2018
2018

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Kaléidoscope

Paris
12.11
15.11.2014
2014

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Lustres et Lamées

Paris
14.03
20.04.2013
2013

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