Patrick Faigenbaum is a prominent French contemporary photographer born in Paris in 1954. Trained as a painter and art historian, he began his photographic practice in the early 1970s, influenced by pictorial traditions and masters such as Richard Avedon, W. Eugene Smith, and Bill Brandt. He gained international acclaim in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families, which highlight historical and family heritage through black and white images. His work often merges documentary rigor with a painterly aesthetic, encompassing portraiture, cityscapes, landscapes, and still lifes. He has been a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (1985–1987) and is currently a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris since 2001.[1,2,3,4,5]
