[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Tableau photographique original de 10 portraits de Michael Jackson sur fond de rideau rouge

Original unique printing of this double series of color photographs presented as three contact sheets, numbered, dated and signed on the verso by the artist in black ink: "1/1, sept 2010, Arno Bani". September 2010 is the date of the sale of these unpublished photographs at Pierre Bergé et Associés.

It was in 1999 during a stay in London that Michael Jackson noticed Arno Bani's work in an issue of the Sunday Times magazine. Fascinated by his fashion photographs, he brought the young 23-year-old photographer to New York and asked him not only to photograph him, but also to define his look for the next ten years. This meeting was followed by several working sessions and finally a three-day photo shoot in studios in Malakoff, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
These photographs, supposed to serve as illustration for the album cover of Invincible were claimed by Michael Jackson's record label and were not revealed to the public until 2010, the year following the disappearance of the king of pop.
"This collaboration would establish Arno Bani as one of the most gifted photographers of his generation. Subsequently, he was sought after by fashion and luxury institutions such as Lacroix, Givenchy and Cartier or by musicians from the duo air, David Guetta and Bob Sinclar. At twenty-five, Arno Bani is a photographer recognized beyond the boundaries of fashion. Made of contrasts, mixing classicism and modernity, his monochromatic approach to the image is now essential and is expressed in the pages of Citizen K, Spoon, Visionaire or Jalouse. He thus photographs Monica Bellucci, Mélanie Thierry or Noémie Lenoir." (Catalogue of the Pierre Bergé et Associés sale, December 2010)