Fine Print: Manhattan, USA, 1982 Paper size:39.3 x 55 in (100 x 140 cm)

Fine Print: Manhattan, USA, 1982 Paper size:39.3 x 55 in (100 x 140 cm)Harry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography. Gruyaerts cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the

pop-style neon signs

and kept the lens at a constant focal length

Los Angeles and vicinity

The high dunes

and many live or regularly migrate to work in rural Canada

Let the Sun Beheaded Be was produced as part of Immersion

Seymour – credited by Cartier-Bresson for bringing business-mindedness to Magnum – worked on numerous commercial commissions for major publications

he produces serene

was almost hallucinogenic

taken aboard the Spanish trawler Rowanlea in the North Atlantic

honouring lives that are usually unseen

“he seemed to know that it was the inner moment I was drawn to and not his clown face or physical appearance