| Amanda Eliasch | |
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Amanda Eliasch at her Beverly Hills home |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Amanda J. Eliasch |
| Born | May 13, 1960 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Occupations | Poet, Fashion Editor for Genlux Magazine, Writer, Photographer, Socialite |
Amanda J. Eliasch (born May 13, 1960 to Anthony Cave Brown and Mrs Caroline Brown née Gilliat, in Beirut, Lebanon) is the poet, Fashion Editor for Genlux Magazine in Los Angeles, as well as British photographer and writer for The Collective Review. She has also written a book of poetry called Cloak and Dagger Butterfly.[1]
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She spent her childhood in the Wiltshire Downs with her mother, an opera singer and teacher at Dauntseys School, Devizes and Stonar School, Melksham, Bath, Amanda was educated at Stonar School, Melksham Bath. She is a grand daughter of Sidney Gilliat, film director, script writer and producer of films such as St Trinians, Blue Murder at St Trinians The Lady Vanishes, Green for Danger Millions Like Us Waterloo Road starring John Mills and Stewart Granger The Rake's Progress starring Rex Harrison, Jamaica Inn, Only two can play and State Secret, great grand daughter to George Gilliat who was editor for The Evening Standard from 1928 - 1933. Her father Anthony Cave Brown was writer and Foreign Correspondent for The Daily Mail in Beirut. He won Journalist of the year in 1958 and was author of Bodyguard of Lies, Willliam J. Donavan, and wrote about Kim PhilbyTreason in the blood and Sir Stewart Menzies.She has two sons with Johan Eliasch called Charles and Jack.
Amanda then worked for a stamp dealer and Terence Conran and The Conran Shop, Kenneth Turner Flowers and Tiger Petroleum until she enrolled herself into drama school.
Amanda Eliasch studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and then at The Black and White Photography school before embarking on her photographic career. She was the student at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
Amanda worked with Rushka Bergman at L'uomo Vogue photographing people like Ang Lee for the Cinema Edition. Amanda is involved in several charities from the British Film Institute, London Symphony Orchestra and a school of children of the Tsunami in Phuket a charity called Phuket has been good to me Peccadilloes, an exhibition of neon lights based on Kay Saatchi's drawings of Amanda committing the seven deadly sins at Leadapron Gallery in Melrose in Los Angeles. As I like it a play written by Amanda Eliasch and Lyall Watson with Justine Glenton. Susan Parkes and Charles Eliasch was performed at the Chelsea Theatre Kings Road London.
2011. Sins of a butterfly second book of poetry In 2009 Chipmunka Publishing published Cloak And Dagger Butterfly, a book of her poetry with photography, written about two simultaneous love stories.[2] Amanda Eliasch collaborated with Pablo Ganguli and Liberatum for the AngloMockBa British-Russian cultural diplomacy festival in May 2009 featuring Stephen Frears and milliner Stephen Jones, composer Michael Nyman, Martha Fiennes Film Director, Dylan Jones with TIME as the media partner.
Photographer: Made by Indians which included artists such as Subodh Gupta and Jitish Kallat.
Photographer: Made by Brazilians with British photographer Jack English.
Photographer and Writer of British Artists At Work - Assouline, Franca Sozzani and Italian Vogue[3] The book commissioned by Franca Sozzani of Italian Vogue, captures four generations of artists from the established to the emerging. Amanda photographed 46 artists in their studios including Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Fiona Rae, Sam Taylor-Wood, Julian Opie, Martin Maloney, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Michael Craig Martin, Chantal Joffe, Marc Quinn, Anish Kapoor, Rachael Whiteread, Jenny Saville, Gilbert and George and 2003 Turner Prize nominee Grayson Perry. Amanda’s photographs are set alongside a personal diary of her experiences on each shoot.[4] http://www.amandaeliasch.com/baw-view.asp
Amanda has exhibited in several London based galleries including The Black and White Gallery, The Cork Street Gallery and the Proud Galleries, where her work was well received by the public and critics.[5]
The Evening Standard said “Her stunning, sexy photographs exude glamour and gusto… She’s at her best with her stylish confident images of nude models”-which was influenced by Bob Carlos Clarke
Michel Comte praised her photographic work and likened her to Man Ray and Meret Oppenheim, and Charles Saatchi proclaimed her to be "The new Cartier-Bresson"
She was married to Johan Eliasch,CEO Head N.V. from 1988 to 2007.
At the beginning of 2009 Amanda Eliasch was attacked by a crazed knifeman in an underpass at the Royal Festival Hall but she escaped unharmed.[6]
