Gideon Lewin 1939 —

Gideon Lewin was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles), majoring in advertising and photography. Early in his career, he was studio manager and “right hand man” to Richard Avedon for 16 years. During this time he collaborated with Richard Avedon on Many projects, i...ncluding printing of major museum exhibitions and editions, working on books, traveling with him extensively for editorial assignments.

Lewin also managed to continually do his own personal work as a photographer. He created an ad campaign for Saks Fifth Avenue in the late sixties, and ads for many American designers in the seventies, and an ad campaign for Israeli tourism, “come to Israel, Come stay with Friends”.

The ‘creative eye of Gideon Lewin allowed him to establish his independent studio in 1980. He collaborated with American and European designers on advertising, promotions and books. Notably, his campaigns for Bill Blass, Bob Mackie, Clairol, Hathaway, Martha, Jacobson, and Lord and Taylor, stores and the Venetian in Las Vegas. In many cases he was the photographer as well as the creative director; the ‘creative eye’.

Lewin has done the photography and the production of two books: “Unmistakably Mackie’. “The Fashion and fantasy of Bob Mackie” and “foie Grass, a passion”, which included the creations of 63 of the most important chefs in the world. This book received the International Book Award.
His editorial work has been published in Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, Avenue, Lears, Elle, LIfestiles and Travelgirl magazine.

Gideon Lewin portraiture work is extensive. He has photographed many personalities on note. His collection includes Clint Eastwood, Pearl Bailey, Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Pearlman, Jane Seymour, Lauren Bacall, Ariel Sharon, Rupert Murdoch, Donna Karan, Bobbie Sort, Liza Minnelli and mentor and great friend Richard Avedon.

In 2000, A Retrospective exhibition of his work was present at the Museum of photography in Mougine, France, followed by a one man exhibit, “Platinum Nudes” at the Neuhoff Gallery in New York, Lewin is currently working on 3 book projects: “Gideon Lewin, The Avedon Years 1960 – 1980”, “Platinum Nudes”, and a book of portraits.

“Fluid Beauty” – Gideon Lewin’s Nudes is on exhibit at Vered Gallery in East Hampton December 30 until February 21 2011.

An important source for modern and contemporary American & European Art in East Hampton, New York & worldwide, Vered Gallery's spectacular wide-ranging inventory consists of unique paintings, drawings, large & small scale sculpture, monotypes, prints and photographs  by Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Richard Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Fernando Botero, Cartier-Bresson, Marc Chagall, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Willem De Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, David Hockney, Winslow Homer, Wolf Kahn, Jeff Koons, Fernand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Thomas Moran, Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Charles Sheeler, Bert Stern, Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol, Carleton E Watkins, Tom Wesselmann and Andrew Wyeth.

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