JESSE ALEXANDER

Jesse Alexander has been involved in photography and especially motorsports  photography since the early 1950s when he covered the original Mexican Road Race. He then spent many years in Europe covering Formula One and the famous long distance sports car races, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio. In that period of time he also photographed theater and music personalities for the New York Times.

 

His work is held by numerous private collectors and has been exhibited in museums in the United States, including the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Akron Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

 

 “As a young boy growing up during World War II, I was captivated by the imagery that came out of the war through the eyes of legendary photographers like Edward Steichen and W. Eugene Smith.  My other heroes include Henri Cartier Bresson, Jacques Lartigue, Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Davidson and Robert Capa.”

 

Jesse’s current body of work includes travel photographs of Iceland, the Galapagos Islands, and birds.

 

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Films by Jesse Alexander:

 

FISH MARKET, a ten minute black and white documentary film of the legendary Billingsgate fishmarket in London.

 

MUDHOUSE, a documentary film of the construction of an all concrete home designed by Roland Coate in Santa Barbara, CA.

 

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Corporate Collections:

 

Chrysler Corporation

Ford Motor Company

Volkswagen of American

Ralph Lauren Polo, New York

Porsche North America

Audi North America

 

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Published Books:

 

AT SPEED  -1971

 

LOOKING  BACK -1982

 

P38 LIGHTNING  RESTORATION OF AN AMERICAN WAR BIRD -1990

 

FORTY YEARS OF MOTORSPORT PHOTOGRAPHY -1996

 

DRIVEN (Chronicle Books) -2000

 

PORSCHE MOMENTS (David Bull) -2006

 

FERRARI GRAND PRIX MOMENTS (David Bull) -2007

 

PORTRAITS (David Bull)  -2008

 

INSIDE THE ARCHIVES  (David Bull) -2010

 

FORTY YEARS OF MOTORSPORT PHOTOGRAPHY-(eBook Artist) -2011

 

MONACO  (to be published in 2014)

 

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 Exhibition List:

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara, 1980

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 1984

Akron Museum, Akron, 1986

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, 1992

Peter Fetterman Gallery Santa Monica, 1995

Staley+Wise Gallery New York, 1996

Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1997

Staley+Wise Gallery, New York, 2000

Michael Hoppen Gallery,London, England, 2002

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 2007

Patty Look Lewis Gallery, Santa Barbara, 2007

Art and the Automobile, Stansted, Quebec, 2008

Brooks Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, 2012

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2012

 

 

All photographs, video and content © Jesse Alexander