Robert Maxwell

One of the pre-eminent portrait photographers of our time, Robert Maxwell successfully balances fashion and celebrity photography with a fine art practice. Combining a rough-edged eroticism with an interest in form and beauty, his deeply expressive portraits, still lifes and nudes are steeped in the history of photography.His use of nineteenth-century techniques including the glass wet-plate process known as the ambrotype, and platinum and silver printing, contributes to the rich, dark and reflective surfaces of his photographs. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Camerawork in Berlin and Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. Arena Editions published his first monograph "Robert Maxwell: Photographs" in 2000.His advertising clients include Nike, American Express, Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdales. His editorial work has appeared in W, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, Newsweek and Interview. For T: The New York Times Style Magazine's "Originals" project, he has traveled around the world to photograph more than 200 leading figures in their fields.