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Staley-Wise Gallery

Fine art photography gallery, specializing in fashion photography and portraiture for over 25 years.

Slim Aarons
Jesse Alexander
Antonio
Richard Avedon
Sid Avery
Peter Basch
Lillian Bassman
Cecil Beaton
Harry Benson
Nick Brandt
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Louise Dalh-Wolfe
Patrick Demarchelier
Andre de Dienes
Robert Doisneau
Michael Dweck
Arthur Elgort
Philippe Halsman
Toni Frissell
David Gahr
Ron Galella
Ormond Gigli
Milton Greene
Horst
Frank Horvat
Hoyningen-Huene
Hurrell
Andre Kertesz
Steven Klein

William Klein
Dan Kramer
David LaChapelle
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Erica Lennard
Kurt Markus
Herbert Matter
Sheila Metzner
Lee Miller
David Montgomery
Genevieve Naylor
Helmut Newton
Norman Parkinson
Denis Piel
Len Prince
Rico Puhlmann
Bob Richardson
Herb Ritts
Willy Rizzo
Amalie R. Rothschild
Jerry Schatzberg
Jeanloup Sieff
Melvin Sokolsky
Edward Steichen
Bert Stern
Phil Stern
John Stewart
Deborah Turbeville
Ellen von Unwerth
Chris von Wangenheim
Alfred Wertheimer
Bob Willoughby
Firooz Zahedi

03/08/2025

“This was the first time I ever had a peacock fall in love with me…I believe we called him Fernando. He would follow me everywhere—strutting his stuff trying to impress.”

–Joan Severance, Model

This photograph is included in our exhibition, “Denis Piel: Exposed,” at Staley-Wise Gallery. We look forward to seeing you here! 🦚

Denis Piel: Joan Severance (Peacock Competition 1), Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, UK, US VOGUE, 1982

03/07/2025

“I was in love with New York. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight . . . I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later — because I did not belong there, did not come from there but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”

—Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”

The Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Archive at The New York Public Library will be made available to the public on March 26th. You can also visit Staley-Wise Gallery to see the portrait shown above in our current exhibition, “Denis Piel: Exposed”. We look forward to seeing you here!

Denis Piel: Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne (1), NYC, Vanity Fair, 1983

03/06/2025

Denis Piel’s always-sensual photographs tell a story which must be guessed at as several interpretations are possible. Often featuring reclining models lost in thought or engaged in mysterious narratives, Piel’s photographs were more influenced by filmmakers such as François Truffaut and Stanley Kubrick than photographers.

These works are included our new exhibition “Denis Piel: Exposed” on view at Staley-Wise Gallery through April 26th. We look forward to seeing you here!

1. Suzanne Accosta (Reading), Key West, Florida, 1979
2. Joan & Nancy (Reading Time), Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, UK, US VOGUE, 1982
3. The Good Word in Summer, Long Island, US VOGUE, 1981

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03/02/2025

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1. Weegee: Grace Kelly and Marlon Brando (distortion), 1954
2. Ron Galella: Jack Nicholson, Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1976
3. Harry Benson: Julie Christie, Beverly Hills, California, 1966

02/27/2025

Staley-Wise’s new exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel opens TONIGHT, Thursday, February 27th! Please join us and the artist for a reception at the gallery from 6-8 PM.

We look forward to seeing you here!

02/26/2025

In 2002, Denis Piel acquired the Château de Padiès: a 13th-century castle with surrounding pastoral farmland in Southwest France which was designated as an official historical monument. Piel and his family devoted themselves to sustainable agriculture - and a new chapter of his photographic work. Conceived by Piel as a “dialogue with nature and history,” these images celebrate fertility and the environment. His models slip through fields of flowers and forest floors, their recumbent poses alternately recalling classical Greek mythology and the work of Gustave Courbet. His large-scale “Padièscapes” project — capturing flowers through a water-filled plexiglass cube — distills these themes further and invites us to reconsider the natural world’s profound beauty.

Staley-Wise’s new exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel opens TOMORROW, Thursday, February 27th. Please join us and the artist for a reception from 6-8 PM.

We look forward to seeing you here!

1. Buttercups (2), Château de Padiès, France, 2023
2. Dahlia Redfield, Château de Padiès, France, 2023
3. Wisteria Sinensis, Château de Padiès, France, 2023

02/19/2025

This portrait of iconic American artist Jasper Johns, as captured by photographer Denis Piel, is included in our upcoming exhibition “Exposed”.

The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on February 27 (6-8 PM), and will be on view through April 26, 2025.

We look forward to seeing you here!

Denis Piel: Jasper Johns, NYC, US VOGUE, 1987

02/14/2025

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1. Len Prince: Love Birds, 1997
2. Helmut Newton: Rich Girls, Bordighera, Italy, 1982
3. David LaChapelle: But The Love Will Never Die, NYC, 1986
4. Ellen Von Unwerth: Couple Exercising in Bed, Paris, 1986
5. Patrick Demarchelier: Diamonds, 2000
6. Robert Doisneau: Les Ventres du 14 Juillet, 1953

02/08/2025

Our current online exhibition “Shop Talk” includes works by Ellen von Unwerth, Arthur Elgort, Sam Shaw, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Rodney Smith, Alison Jackson, Pamela Hanson, Horst P. Horst, Ron Galella, Patrick Demarchelier, Sophie Elgort, William Helburn, Harry Benson, Bob Willoughby, David LaChapelle, Steve McCurry, and Txema Yeste.

Click the link in our bio to see the exhibtion! 🛍️🛒

1. Sophie Elgort: Three Girls with Candy, Brooklyn, 2017
2. Horst P. Horst: House & Garden, New York, 1951
3. Txema Yeste: Untitled, 2018

02/07/2025

Staley-Wise Gallery is pleased to announce “Exposed”, our upcoming exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist at the gallery on February 27th (6-8 PM), and will be on view through April 26, 2025.

This exhibition is an overview of Denis Piel’s varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE in the 1980s and his abstract Padièscapes works, which are inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France.

Immediately recognizable for their cinematic quality, Piel’s images were a sensational departure from the posed models of his predecessors in fashion photography. His always-sensual photographs tell a story which must be guessed at as several interpretations are possible. Often featuring reclining models lost in thought or engaged in mysterious narratives, Piel’s photographs were more influenced by filmmakers such as François Truffaut and Stanley Kubrick than photographers.

We look forward to seeing you here!

Slide 1: Rosemary, Water Massage, The Perfect Escape, Biarritz, France, US VOGUE, 1981

02/06/2025

Only a few more days to see our Sheila Metzner exhibition, which closes this Saturday, February 8th. We look forward to seeing you here!

Slide 2: Double Wing. Dunand Vase. 1985
Slide 3: Mondrian Orchid. 1982
Slide 4: Odalisque. 1986
Slide 5: Robert Mapplethrope. 1984
Slide 6: Jeffrey. Red Plastic Hat. 1979
Slide 7: Frangrance. Art Deco. 1984
Slide 8: White Anthuriums Grey Vase. 1980
Slide 9: Rebecca with Diamond Necklace. 1984

01/31/2025

“Sheila’s images are iconic; in form and fashion they transcend the traditional sensibility of editorial and advertising photography. They’re more than fashion pictures, more than exquisite tools of sale—they’re monumental.” –Ralph Lauren

Our Sheila Metzner exhibition continues through February 8th, 2025.

We look forward to seeing you here!

Slide 2: Empire State Building. 2000
Slide 3: Silver. Ralph Lauren Collection. 1997
Slide 4: Empire State Building. 1980

01/28/2025

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍

1. Patrick Demarchelier: Amber Valletta, Paris, 1993
2. André Kertesz: Still Life with Flowers and Snake, New York, 1960
3. Txema Yeste: Stella Lucia, Numéro No. 175, 2016
4. Sheila Metzner: Hand with Snake. 1994
5. Horst P. Horst: Yasmin, Chanel Evening Dress, British VOGUE, London, 1986

01/22/2025

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Our Sheila Metzner exhibition continues through February 8th. We look forward to seeing you here!

1. Lisa Kalfus. Red Jumpsuit. 1980
2. Orchid. 1998

01/21/2025

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David LaChapelle: Chanel on Ice, Oregon, Paris VOGUE, 1997

01/20/2025

“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

—Martin Luther King Jr., Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968.

Slide 1: Harry Benson: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the James Meredith March Against Fear, Mississippi, June 1966.

Slide 2: Harry Benson: Martin Luther King, Jr., Canton, Mississippi, 1966

01/18/2025

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Our Sheila Metzner continues through February 8th. We look forward to seeing you here!

Slide 1: Flower. 2000

Slide 2: Mondrian Orchid. 1982

Slide 3: White Anthuriums Grey Vase. 1980

01/17/2025

Castle Howard was the location for my very favourite TV series ever, ‘Brideshead Revisited’. Denis was such a cinematic photographer and always envisioned a loose scenario, coupled with mystery. It was perfect. Denis’ photographs were edgily romantic and suggestive of a narrative left open to the reader’s imagination.

It appeared as if our models grew up surrounded by such wealth and privilege. They were women alone apart from the staff, clergy or other servants, and it was unclear if they were friends or lovers. The atmosphere was one of mysterious languor.

This shoot proved to be one of my favourite shoots of my nearly 30-year career. –Jade Hobson, Fashion Editor, VOGUE

Denis Piel: A World Apart, Castle Howard, York, UK, October 1982, VOGUE.

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Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm

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+12129666223

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http://www.staleywise.com/

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