Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Exhibition organized by Pomellato Jewelry, Milano.

Artist:
Michel Comte.

Exhibition description:
The exhibition Shots: Photographs by Michel Comte was conceived as a humanitarian project. Michel Comte is a photographer who devotes his subject matter to portraits of models, cinema stars, and other celebrities. On this occasion, however, he travelled to Afghanistan and captured painful images of internal rivalry, weapons, death and poverty. Shots brought together Comte’s photographs of war and of glamour. The funds raised with this exhibition were to be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross and for the renovation of a centre for rehabilitation of the injured in Kabul.

Catalogue:
Two catalogues, in Italian and French, with texts by Benedetta Barzini, Pierre Restany and Antonio Tabucchi:

Barzini, Benedetta, Restany, Pierre and Antonio Tabucchi. Shots. Fotografie di Michel Comte. Milano: Editoriale Giorgio Mondatori, 1995. (Library location: GUGG PGC 1995 .05).

Barzini, Benedetta, Restany, Pierre and Antonio Tabucchi. Shots. Photographies Michel Comte. Milano: Editoriale Giorgio Mondatori, 1995. (Library location: GUGG PGC 1995 .04).

A book in Italian featuring only Comte’s portraits of celebreties was also published:
Comte, Michel. Shots. 47 ritratti per il Comitato internazionale della Croce Rossa. Milano: Pomellato e Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, 1995. (Library location: GUGG PGC 1995 .04 bis).