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During the past 25 years of Swiss photographer Michel Comte’s career, renowned magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, Stern and GQ, have been publishing his images and portraits of the most beautiful women and world’s most significant artists of our time alike. What has gradually evolved, is an astonishing collection of work of great intimacy and understanding; images which allow an exceptional insight into the soul of whom Comte is portraying. Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and bestseller-author, once said: “Regardless whether Michel has a Hollywood celebrity or an orphan from the Third World in front of his lens, he takes both their pictures with the same sincerity and devotion.”

Michel Comte at LUMAS

Those limited artoworks, made by Michel Comte are distributed exclusively to authorized professional dealers – and thus are not available directly to retail customers through LUMAS. In our showroom, the UNISON-Haus, we showcase you an assortment of those editions within a very special ambience.

Please, visit our galerie, take your time to watch the originals and get inspired. Of course you can acquire each of them directly on spot.

Are you interested? First questions will be answered at: +49 3464 241 120 and for further information we are always give you personally professional advice.

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Vita

1953    born in Zurich. Trained to be professional art restorer Photography as a profession came to Comte auto didactically

1978     Comte receives his first international photographic assignment for Paris based fashion-labels Ungaro and Chloé

1979    Comte leave Switzerland and moves to Paris

1981    Comte relocates to New York, where he beings to work for the American Vogue, later settling down in Los Angeles. During a fashion shoot Comte meets model Dominique Kamber

since 1981    Editorially Comte works mainly for the publishing group Condé Nast During this time he not only works as a fashion- but also a celebrity photographer, portraying stars from the worlds of fashion, arts, entertainment, music and sports, from Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Lopez, over Robert Altman, Sting and Jeremy Irons, to Julian Schnabel or Jeff Koons.

since 1999    Michel Comte travels to and works in war-zones and unstable regions such as the Tibet, Iraq, Afghanistan or Bosnia as photographer for the International Red Cross. In collaboration with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) various Charity-projects develop

2003    Michel Comte photographs the campaign of his first own fragrance: Michel Comte Shared Water

2004    founding of the, Michel Comte Water Foundation, which functions as a charitable foundation under the supervision of the Swiss government, of which the purpose is to help supply and provide possibilities for people in developing countries to have access to clean drinking water

2007    Comte begins his first international film project as director of an Hollywood production

Exhibiton (selects)

Guggenheim Museum in Venice
Centro Internazionale di Fotografia in Verona
Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

Books/Catalogs (Selection)

Te Neues Publishing: Michel Comte, Twenty Years: 1979-1999, 1999
Te Neues Publishing: Michel Comte: Kontraste/Contrasts Portfolio (Stern Portfolio Library), 1999
Steidl Verlag: People and Places with no Name, 2000
Steidl Verlag: Aiko T, 2002
Steidl Verlag: Charlie Chaplin: A Photo Diary, 2002
Steidl Verlag: Michael Schumacher: Driving Force, 2003
Random House: Schumacher, 2003
Steidl Verlag: Michael by Michel, 2004
BMW AG: MWB Sauber F1 Team, 2006

Essays (Selection):

Magazines:
Vogue Italia
American Vogue
Vogue Germany
Stern
Dutch
Vanity Fair
Interview
GQ Magazine