With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time

The image, shot for a designer's ad campaign, feels like a scene from a real-life Alice in Wonderland tea party.

Staley-Wise Gallery is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Rodney Smith’s photographs for inclusion in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.⁣
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In celebration of the occasion, the Rodney Smith Estate is hosting a series of curator talks over the next few months. Please join us for the first talk, "What Makes Fashion Photography Art”, next week on Wednesday, December 8 at 6PM EST. Among the panelists will be Staley-Wise Gallery’s co-founder, Etheleen Staley, curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Paul Martineau, international model Viktória Vámosi, and founding creative director of W Magazine, Dennis Freedman. The event will take place online and is free to the public. Please register at the link here.