Van Leo (born Levon Alexander Boyadjian; November 20, 1921 – March 18, 2002) was an Armenian-Egyptian photographer who became known for his numerous self-portraits and portraits of celebrities of his time.

2023年1月19日 · Beginning in the late 1930s, Van Leo made hundreds of dazzling and uncanny self-portraits. What does his archive tell us about the mysteries of identity?

Van Leo, born Levon Boyadjian, is an Egyptian-Armenian photographer who worked from 1940 until 1970s. His photography is considered one of the pivotal stages of photography’s development in Egypt. Leo was born into a middle-class Armenian family who had moved to Cairo in the early 1880s.

2023年11月5日 · Becoming Van Leo is the first international survey of work by the late Armenian Egyptian photographer known as Van Leo, a pseudonym of his own making. Born Levon Boyadjian to Armenian parents in Turkey in 1921, the artist moved to Egypt with his family as a child, eventually settling in Cairo.

洛杉矶哈默博物馆 (Hammer Museum) 的一个新展览探讨了 亚美尼亚 裔埃及摄影师范·里奥 (Van Leo) 的生活和工作，他用自己的自画像表达对性别、种族和阶级的探索。 痴迷于自我记录的行为通常被理解为一种当代现象，这是由于在社交媒体的发达而引起的。 但早在“自拍照”进入现代词汇之前，影棚和摄影设施就成为这些艺术家展现自我的创作工具。 Van Leo 是 Levon Boyadjian 的笔名， Levon Boyadjian 是一位亚美尼亚裔埃及摄影师，自 20 世纪 30 年代以来，他的摄影实 …

2022年3月17日 · Responsible for some of the most cherished pictures of Cairo's bustling cosmopolitan society in the 20th century, Van Leo has a remarkable portfolio. But who was the famed photographer and what legacy does he leave for Arab photographers today?

Becoming Van Leo is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.

Van-Leo (1921-2002) was an Egyptian-Armenian studio photographer who arrived in Egypt in 1924. His work spanning the mid 1940s to the late 1990s includes Cairo’s entertainment elite and other well-known public figures such as Omar Sherif, Doria …

2022年1月26日 · Born in Turkey in 1921 to Armenian parents who then fled the crumbling Ottoman empire, Van Leo (the pseudonym of Levon Boyadjian) grew up in Alexandria, Zagazig and Cairo. He was fascinated by...

2024年7月10日 · Van Leo, who worked from the 1940s until the 1970s in Egypt, was more than just a photographer; his lens did not merely record the surface, the world we see everyday. He was more interested in capturing the soul – the raw, unspoken emotions beneath.