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Richard "Dick" Ballarian (born on November 27 , 1928 in Pittsford, suburb of Rochester, New York, USA - died February 24, 2018 in Paris, France (aged 89) was a fashion photographer and artist.

His Armenian father was an oriental carpet merchant and his Scottish mother was an antique dealer.

Richard Ballarian had come naturally to the 8th art. A native of the suburbs of Rochester, the seat city of Kodak, he himself developed his shots as a teenager.

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Rochester, he did his military service in the Navy for which he produced some photographic reports. In 1956, he chose Fine Arts at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California, to study photojournalism.

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Rochester, he did his military service in the Navy for which he produced some photographic reports. In 1956, he chose Fine Arts at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California, to study photojournalism.

Based in New York, Richard Ballarian began his career by photographing models and by making portraits of artists and various personalities. It was by assisting a New York photographer that he seized his first opportunity. His photos then appeared in a fashion magazine for young people, 'Ingenue'.
Gentlemen Quaterly (GQ) gives him the chance to open his career internationally by offering him a shoot in Hong Kong. These photos are a great success.

In 1966, the artist opened his own studio in Manhattan and shot for magazines such as Women's Wear Daily , Seventeen, Bride's, Lady's Home Journal, GQ…

In 1973, the photographer discovered Paris. On his return to New York, Peter Knapp, artistic director of Elle France, called him and offered him a contract. Endowed with a mission and seduced by the French capital, he decided to settle there in 1974. From that time on he signed his photos under the name of Dick Ballarian, notably for Elle and Jardin des Modes.
Richard Ballarian devoted himself to fashion and beauty photography until the 1990s. He collaborated with the most prestigious magazines in France, Elle, Marie-Claire, Vogue Paris, Madame Figaro, Jardin des Modes, Women, Depeche Mode … but also for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Germany, Italy and the United States.
L'Oréal, Givenchy, Christian Dior , Georges Rech, Valentino … choose him to produce their advertisements, in collaboration with his agent in Paris since 1983, Joël Eskimo.

Less known, his more personal shots have been exposed in France in recent years. He handled with skillful color transformation, art of blurring and photomontage. ” Experimentation takes a big part in my work, and I think that my studies of physics have developed a love for me in this research “, confided the artist, whose father Hayg was from Trabizon even if he had done his studies at the American college of Marzevan, like his brothers, before leaving for the United States, at 17, in 1907. ” In Richard’s personal photos, there is never a face, they are only ghosts. His photos are out of place, out of time, “confided the historian and wife of the photographer, Pia Le Moal-Ballarian, who died a few months ago. As an echo to his repressed Armenian origins.

From 1994, Richard Ballarian begins a long series on the theme of architecture.
From 1997 to 2003, he reworked photos in his laboratory installed in his apartment. This is where the Urban Man series was born: the people of the rue de Rennes, the Champs-Élysées. He then decides to devote himself only to his artistic work.
In June and July 2012, the Basia Embiricos Gallery, in the Marais district of Paris, chooses to exhibit his collages and his "Urban Man" photos during the exhibition Le Néophile.
In May and June 2013, the Galerie Metanoïa, in the Beaubourg district, a stone's throw from the Center Pompidou, exhibits a new collection of his original Polaroids shot in the 70s and 80s.
In November 2013, Richard Ballarian is exhibiting in the Barge House building in London.
In May 2016, Richard Ballarian exhibits several of his works with two other artists from the Eskimo agency, organized by Art Shopping at the Carré du Louvre in Paris.

He died at the age of 89 in France, February 24th 2018 in Paris where he had been resident since the mid-1970s.
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