When Elton John purchased many photographs from my first show in Los Angeles at Fahey Klein Gallery in 2004, I knew we were onto something. I always had internal validation but it was certainly a confidence booster at the beginning of my art career to have some external validation too.” Photographer David Drebin’s words to Heart of Cool recollect the promising beginning of what has turned out to be a stellar 20-year career. In 2007 he published his first comprehensive illustrated book, Love and Other Stories. Many other exhibitions and books have followed, but his latest, Flirting with Danger, from German luxury publisher teNeues, is one of his very best.
“Starting a conversation with David is really uplifting,” notes Stefanie Penck, Managing Director of teNeues Verlag, in the book’s introduction. “Like the title of one of his photographs: ‘Fly with me!’ He is bursting with power and creativity and thus inspiration flies high.
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