Winnie

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In 1958, Danish born Winnie Denker came to Paris. Over the twenty years that followed, which she spent both in Paris and New York, she dedicated herself to fashion and still-life photography. That was until 1985 and a landmark encounter with the Eiffel Tower. Since then her passion has been for architecture and global cultural heritage. 
 
She admits that she has a particular fascination for such monuments, though this is coupled with her own method of highlighting the fact that, until the 20th century, women could not penetrate the closed circle of master builders.  
 
Her documentation of these testaments to male ingenuity is thus all the while informing the construction of her own stand-alone work.  For Denker is one of the few photographers in the world working in a 20X25 format and using Fresson Printing: this is a unique technique involving gold, charcoal and coloured pigments. 
 
Her enduring love affair with the Eiffel Tower, which has now lasted more than twenty years, has produced three publications: La Sentinelle de Paris in 1989 to celebrate the tower’s centenary (ed. by Robert Laffont), Paris, fêtes et lumières in 1993 (ed. by Images-Magie) and, La Tour Eiffel (ed. by Mengès) in 2004.  
 
At the same time, as an UNESCO appointed representative, she led a number of humanitarian missions in the name of world heritage and has travelled the world over (Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Syria, Cairo, Libya). Consequently her reference books have also been published in multiple languages. Catherine the Great (ed. New Orleans) in 1995, The Civilisation of St. Petersburg (ed. Mengès) in 2000 and Constantinople (ed. Mengès) in 2001. 
 
Her work is regularly exhibited in large capital cities and it brings her great joy to see her permanent exhibitions at the Ermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Gallery W in Paris: two places that are so far from one another and yet, at the same time, so intertwined. 

Biography

Winnie is a Danish-born artist photographer, born in 1940, who lives and works in Paris.

She is mainly interested in architecture and urban landscapes.


Exhibitions (selection)

2004

Saint-Pétersbourg, Mairie de Levallois-Peret

2003

La Tour Eiffel, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2002

Le Feu sous la glace, Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russia

2001

La Syrie (Unesco), Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

2000

- Banque Mondiale, Washington, United-States

1999

- Musée des Archives Florence, Italy

1996

Paris, Fêtes et Lumières, Galerie Dentsu, Tokyo, Japan

1995

- Musée de Lugano, Switzerland

1993

- Siège des Nations Unies, New York City

1992

- Dix-huit Galeries de la banque Caïxa, Spain

- Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russia

1990

- Siège de la Société Générale, Paris

1989

- Fondation Mona Bismark, Paris

1976

Saint-Pétersbourg, Galerie Phénix, Mississipi, United-States


Publications (selection)

2004

La Tour Eiffel, Editions Mengès

2001

Civilisation de Saint-Pétersbourg, Editions Mengès

2000

Constantinople, Editions Mengès

1993

Paris, Fêtes et Lumières, Editions Mengès

1989

La Sentinelle de Paris, Editions Robert Laffont - First book about the « Dame de fer » on the occasion of its centenary, Françoise Sagan wrote the texts

1983

- The United States, Editions Time Life - Library of United Nations


Press (selection)

2004

Saint-Pétersbourg, Le Figaro (special edition)

- Venise, Le Figaro (special edition)

2003

Dossier Saint-Pétersbourg, Le Monde

2002

Les palais de Saint-Pétersbourg, Figaro Magazine

Turquie, GEO

2001

Saint-Pétersbourg, L'Express

2000

Le Musée d'Art Oriental, L'Express

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