To cel­e­brate the release of his lat­est book by Taschen, A.galerie is exhibit­ing the mas­ter of pho­tog­ra­phy, Albert Watson, for the fourth time. 

ALBERT WATSON – The Last Cyclops

Known world­wide for his strik­ing por­traits, iconic fash­ion pho­tographs, and count­less mag­a­zine cov­ers, Albert Watson stands as a liv­ing leg­end of con­tem­po­rary photography.

Born blind in one eye, he trans­formed what some would have seen as a lim­i­ta­tion into an absolute cre­ative force. Like a “mod­ern Cyclops,” his unique gaze becomes an omni­scient vision. Whereas Polyphemus, in mythol­ogy, was deceived by Ulysses, Watson thwarts appear­ances and reveals the invis­i­ble. His sin­gle eye does not dimin­ish his vision: it sharp­ens it, tran­scends it, and makes it universal.

His images, por­traits, fash­ion series, and per­sonal cre­ations, all pos­sess the same inten­sity. Each pho­to­graph is both a frag­ment of his­tory and a piece of a larger whole, a mul­ti­fac­eted work where power, ele­gance, humor, and lucid­ity inter­sect. Each pho­to­graph is a page of mod­ern myth.

Albert Watson him­self claims this Cyclops iden­tity. And his pro­lific and glob­ally rec­og­nized work now ranks among the pin­na­cle of visual cre­ation. His unique, pro­found, and sin­gu­lar gaze has left its mark on mod­ern pho­tog­ra­phy, to the point of mak­ing him a myth­i­cal fig­ure himself.