Limited Edition Photography

In the summer of 2010, the friend of photographer Simon Procter, Rolande, an aged but still very wild paintress, died. Rolande’s family agreed to open her studios one last time “before all was cleared away.” Procter, with help from his friends at Christian Dior Couture and his Paris creative team, shot in this extraordinary space. Young French model Pauline Serreau was given the daunting task of embodying the dead artist. The images in the Roland, Death of a Painter series are a unique example of life, art and death interpreted through contemporary fashion photography.

Work by fine art photographer Simon Procter that chronicles couture runway shows he photographed for Chanel over a ten-year period is currently on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Miami gallery, which is located in the lobby of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel.  The show opened on March 25, 2014 and will run until the end of April.

In January and February, a work by Bill Beckley, one of the artists represented by Rosenbaum Contemporary, was featured on the covers of BAMbill, the program for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  BAM is an arts center, located in Brooklyn, New York, that promotes the work of both emerging and modern master artists in all disciplines: visual arts, theater, dance, music, opera and film.  Beckley has donated the work titled I’m Prancin, made in 2013, to be sold to benefit BAM.  It now hangs in BAM’s opera hall.