Marlborough is pleased to participate in the 2021 edition of Paris Photo with a group exhibition comprised of some of the most iconic images by Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Brassaï (born Gyula Halász, 1899-1984) and Irving Penn (1917-2009).

While each of these three artists share various stylistic and thematic similarities across their respective practices, we bring them together here to celebrate the brief, but critical, role Marlborough played in the 1970s and 80s as a pioneer at the forefront of exhibiting and selling photographs.

Many of the photographs on view have not been seen in some forty years since Brandt’s exhibitions with the gallery in 1976 and 1981, Brassaï’s in 1976, 1979, 1982, and 1984, and Penn’s in 1977, 1980, 1981, and 1982.