Fahey/Klein Gallery – Los Angeles
www.faheykleingallery.com, (323) 934-2250
Staley Wise – New York
www.staleywise.com, (212) 966-6223
PDNB Gallery – Dallas
www.pdnbgallery.com, (214) 969-1852
Robert Klein Gallery – Boston
www.robertkleingallery.com, (617) 267-7997
Representation
“[Alexander] captured an era of international motor racing in which the personalities of the drivers and the sleek lines of the cars they drove were not yet obscured by the visual noise of sponsors’ insignia.”
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“[Alexander] was one of the rare photographers whose mastery of his craft allowed him to elevate seemingly mundane images of the world of motorsports to the status of fine art… he’s universally acknowledged as one of the premier visual chroniclers of the road racing scene of the 1950s and ’60s, and he created some of the most indelible images in motorsports history.”
Jesse Alexander
(1929 - 2021)
Jesse Alexander was involved in photography and especially motorsports photography since the early 1950s when he covered the original Mexican Road Race. He then spent many years in Europe covering Formula One and the famous long distance sports car races, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, and Targa Florio. In that period of time, he also photographed theater and music personalities for the New York Times.
Alexander’s work is held by numerous private collectors and has been exhibited in museums in the United States, including the Birmingham Museum of Art, Akron Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
“As a young boy growing up during World War II, I was captivated by the imagery that came out of the war through the eyes of legendary photographers like Edward Steichen and W. Eugene Smith,” said Alexander. “My other heroes include Henri Cartier Bresson, Jacques Lartigue, Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Davidson and Robert Capa.”
His latest body of work included travel photographs of Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, and of birds.
His several books of motor racing photographs include “At Speed” (1972), “Looking Back” (1982), “Driven” (2000), “Portraits” (2008), “Inside the Archives” (2010), “Forty Years of Motorsport Photography” (2010), Speed of Light (2013), and “Monaco: The Golden Age of the Grand Prix” (2014).
Jesse Alexander passed away at the age of 92 on December 14, 2021 at home in Santa Barbara with his beloved wife Nancy by his side.
Credit: Karl Ludvigsen, Collier Foundation
Jesse Alexander, second left, with, from left: the drivers Phil Hill and, seated, Masten Gregory, Richie Ginther and Lance Reventlow. Photograph: Yves Debraine/Klementaski Collection