Patrick Faigenbaum

Patrick Faigenbaum (*1954 in Paris) is considered one of the most important and artistically interesting photographers in France. Trained as a painter and art historian, he took his first photographs in the early 1970s, focusing on the portrait genre. Since receiving international acclaim in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families, Patrick Faigenbaum has situated his work within the heart of the pictorial tradition, emphasizing the expressive power of photography and its position within art history. His works are shown in public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the MNAM - Centre Pompidou in Paris, or the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand in Paris. Since 2001, Patrick Faigenbaum is teaching at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.