A parade of portraits of the world’s greatest personalities
The faces of super-stardom may be familiar to all of us, but now they are all coming together in a parade of images titled «Corbis Outline,» at the City of Athens’s Technopolis arts complex in the central neighborhood of Gazi, starting tomorrow and running to November 19. The tribute, which is jointly organized by photo agencies Apeiron and Corbis Outline, is part of the ongoing International Month of Photography and prior to its Athens showing, the exhibition traveled to Tokyo, Los Angeles, Milan and New York. The Athens exhibition also marks the 60th anniversary of UNICEF, as well as the 25th birthday of the Corbis agency. Corbis Outline is a photo agency that licenses contemporary celebrity portraits to editorial publications, specializing in stylized studio art and candid shots. Featured personalities are of world renown and include famous faces from many arenas: from actors, musicians and authors to scientists, CEOs, artists and more. The group exhibition at Gazi will bring together a number of important portraits taken for the photo agency. These include photos of Madonna, Sharon Stone, Billy Idol, Julianne Moore, Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Lui and Bill Clinton, to name but a few. This exhibitions is considered one of the highlights of the Month of Photography, an event which this year seems to be especially promising.
