Denis Piel

{{short description|French photographer and film-maker (born 1944)}}

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Denis Piel is a French photographer and film-maker. He was born in France in 1944. He was raised in Australia{{cite book|title=American Photo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4UzETDM5ccC&pg=PA48|pages=48–49|issn=1046-8986}} and educated in the United States. He lives in the south-west of France. He worked as a fashion photographer in the 1980s; from 1979 he was under contract to Condé Nast.{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2012/09/model-behavior-denis-piel-has-a-way-with-women/|title=Model Behavior: Denis Piel Has a Way With Women|website=The New York Observer |date=11 September 2012|publisher=}} He stopped taking fashion and advertising photographs in about 1990, and started a film company called Jupiter Films writing and directing TV commercials. In 2002 he made his first feature film Love is Blind A book of his photographs of women, with brief texts by him, Donna Karan and Polly Mellen, was published by Rizzoli in 2012.{{r|book}}[s.n.] (10 March 2013). [https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/03/10/1578821-lempaut-un-nouveau-projet-photographique-pour-denis-piel.html Lempaut. Un nouveau projet photographique pour Denis Piel] (in French). [https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/denis-piel-down-to-earth-2/ DOWN TO EARTH] book of photos published in 2016. An exhibition of DOWN TO EARTH was shown at [https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/EX040118 PHILLIPS in London] in February, 2018. La Dépêche du Midi. {{subscription required}}.{{cite web|url=https://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/real-to-the-touch/|title=Real to the Touch|first=Ruth |last=La Ferla|date=17 August 2012 |publisher=}}

Piel won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987.{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/93608/Denis-Piel-s-first-exhibition-in-Russia-opens-at-the-Lumiere-Brothers-Center-for-Photography|title=Denis Piel's first exhibition in Russia opens at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography|first=Ignacio|last=Villarreal|website=artdaily.com}} His work has been exhibited at WOA - Way Of Arts is Lisbon, Portugal and is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/denis-piel/biography|title=Denis Piel|first=Art La|last=Net|publisher=Artnet Worldwide Corporation}}