Do not miss the exhibition from Mark Laita !

The Arcotel Velvet recommends the exhibition of the American photographer Mark Laita in the gallery CAMERA WORK in Kantstrasse.

Laita Mark was born in 1960 in Detroit and grew up in Chicago. Here he studied photography. After graduating he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a commercial photographer for Mercedes-Benz, VISA and addidas.
He also was responsible for ten years for the promotional shots for Apple.

The CAMERA WORK AG owns one of the world's largest photo book and photo collections. The vintage collection includes works by renowned photographers like Diane Arbus, Man Ray, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Paul beach, Richard Avedon, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Peter Lindbergh. The internationally renowned gallery CAMERA WORK will present fascinating exhibitions regularly by icons of photographic history to contemporary photographers. From the 10th of February opens the CWC GALLERY, a branch of CAMERA WORK in Berlin, in the former Jewish girls' school in the Auguststraße11-13 in Berlin Mitte.

The exhibition of Mark Laita in the gallery CAMERA WORK will start on 4th of February 2012 and shows until 10th of March 2012 for the first time in Europe, the three new series "Sea," "Serpentine" and "Amaranthine" with unique photographs of the most fascinating creatures of the sea, the most impressive snakes and the most colorful and graceful birds in the world. All three series combines the special representation of animals as a still life as well as the recurring form of language.

»Sea«
The after more than ten years in 2010 completed series "Sea" is already one of the most popular photo series in the genre of nature photography.
Mark Laita succeeds in his photographs to depict the exotic creatures of the oceans as an artistic and aesthetic still life. He uses a complicated picture installation to photograph the animals by taking them in the foreground to get their special shape, colors and depict their peculiarities of character.

»Serpentine«
More than 100 of the most dangerous snakes in the world - from the milk snake, coral snake and Texas Rattlesnake to the Black Cobra - Mark Laita photographed them for his series "Serpentine" (Lat. serpens: Snake).
After seeing the pictures people are fascinated by the symbolism and mythology of snakes and also of the menacing aura of grace and elegance.

»Amaranthine«
For the series "Amaranthine" (Greek Amarantos: not passing) Mark Laita has portrayed over 100 of the rarest and most beautiful birds in the world. Unlike the other two series, but the birds are no longer alive, but were preserved for eternity, and exhibited in museums of natural history. Particularly clear here, the awareness of the ambivalence between death and eternal beauty can be experienced.