Erica Lennard and the Agathe Gaillard Gallery have a long story together. The future photographer Erica came to Paris with her sister in 1973, shortly after finishing her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. With, as baggage, pictures of her sister Elisabeth and her friends. The style was simple, friendly and sincere, appreciated by the young French photography that emerged after the Rencontres d’Arles carved out a new future for photography in France. It was during this time that Agathe Gaillard, whose gallery opened in 1975, welcomed, this young American photographer revealed in Arles, among others including Ralph Gibson and the Lennard sisters.

In February, 1976, her exhibition “Women, Sisters” led to her first book published with the same title by Editions des Femmes Books.
Since then, Erica Lennard has become a renowned garden photographer, with 14 books covering Classic Gardens to artist’s or writer’s gardens, Japanese gardens and the gardens of Provence.

However, during the years 1975-1985, before focusing her vision on gardens, Lennard worked for Vogue and several other fashion and generalist magazines. She photographed countless women, comedians, artists and friends, all of whom will be on display at the Agathe Gaillard Gallery from March 3 through April 21, 2012.
Erica Lennard’s search for beauty evolved from faces and bodies to landscapes and places in general. Why look back? “Because, she says, these questions and this vision remain written in time and in my memory, sometimes that is important to remember.”

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Exhibition

Erica Lennard
The Beauty of Women
Until April 21, 2012

Galerie Agathe Gaillard
3 rue du Pont-Louis-Philippe
75004 Paris
+33 (0)1 42 77 38 24
info@agathegaillard.com