KATONAH, NY.- The Katonah Museum of Art is presenting the exhibition Jonathan Becker: Lost Time, on view until January 26, 2025.


The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the publication of Becker's monograph Jonathan Becker: Lost Time, edited by Mark Holborn, released by Phaidon in October 2024.


Curated by renowned editor Mark Holborn, the exhibition commemorates fifty years of Jonathan Becker’s singular vision. Spanning the artist’s formative period in Paris as a protégé of Brassaï through his illustrious career working with Vanity Fair and Vogue during a golden age of magazine publishing, the photographs astutely commemorate some of the most fascinating and important subjects across contemporary culture. Becker remains one of the leading visual storytellers of our time, and Jonathan Becker: Lost Time provides unique access to one of the leading figures in contemporary photography.

Jonathan Becker: Lost Time features more than fifty of the artist’s photographs of influential figures from the worlds of politics, fashion, arts, and culture. Captured through the lens of his Rolleiflex camera, the striking, square-format images reveal intimate, closely observed scenes that serve as both timely and timeless portraits. Becker’s mastery of light, shadow, and saturation is evident across his work in both black and white and color mediums, evinced by the lush, velvety charcoal tones and dazzling chromatic range of his prints.

While reflecting Becker’s personal experiences with his subjects, these images also reveal shifting cultural attitudes, ideas, and world events. Through the intimacy and immediacy of Becker’s portraits, this exhibition also explores photography’s relationship to individual and collective memory and is a poignant rumination on the passage of time.

Jonathan Becker has photographed some of the most celebrated figures across modern culture. Becker began his career as a photographer for Interview and Town & Country before serving as a long-time contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue. He has published several books of photographs, including Bright Young Things: New York & London, with Brooke de Ocampo (2000 and 2003); Studios by the Sea: Artists on Long Island’s East End, with Bob Colacello (2002); and Jonathan Becker: 30 Years at Vanity Fair (2012). His monograph, Jonathan Becker: Lost Time, edited by Mark Holborn, will be released by Phaidon in October 2024.

A celebrated editor and book designer, Mark Holborn has collaborated with Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Lucian Freud, William Eggleston, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Holborn is also an eminent author and curator with expertise in Japanese art and photography, whose books include The Ocean in The Sand: Japan, from Landscape to Garden (1978), Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre (1991), and Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography (2019), as well as two forthcoming publications with the photographer Daido Moriyama. His current project, on artists and archives in the Middle East, focuses on the old town of Jeddah on the Red Sea.



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