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"   Photo: Karl Lagerfeld  PARIS \u2013 Jack-of-all-trade Karl Lagerfeld strikes again. In case the direction of three fashion houses, incessant shooting, video directing, and Coca-Cola bottle designing wasn&amp;#039;t enough, he&amp;#039;s about to open a solo photography exhibition. Tomorrow, Paris&amp;#039; Maison Europ\u00E9enne de la Photographie will reveal several decades of Karl&amp;#039;s furious clicking passion gathering a mix of personal pictures, experimental prints and commercial work for various brands and magazines. &amp;quot;Photography is a part of my life. I look at the world and fashion through a camera lens,&amp;quot; he said recently. &amp;quot;This helps me give the basis of my work a critical detachment.&amp;quot;   Photo: Karl Lagerfeld  It&amp;#039;s a chance to see his exclusive photos of Freja Beja Erichsen alongside personal holiday snaps of New York, and pictures taken during Chanel campaign shoots &amp;amp;amp;mash; a welcome moment for both fashion and photography fans. Mr. Lagerfeld, who has been taking photos since 1987, has been interested in the art form for decades, he revealed, &amp;quot;I especially like late 19th century and early 20th century photography. I have a passion for Stieglitz, Steichen, Clarence White,&amp;quot; but he&amp;#039;s also moved by &amp;quot;German photography of the 1920s, and all those who were influenced by it later on such as Helmut Newton, Peter Lindberg or Ellen Von Unwerth.&amp;quot; Germany too is a fan of his work, he was awarded the `Cultural Prize&amp;#039; by the German Photographic society in 1996. When asked what he&amp;#039;d do if he had to choose between fashion and photography, he once said, &amp;quot;I would rather commit suicide than have to choose between them. What can force me to be one? I like to be all. The different aspects make the one man.&amp;quot; Maison Europeenne de la photographie: http://www.mep-fr.org/# "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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