VANITY
Success story
Somexki Collection
1 photograph
Seroux
Hearst Castle, Californie
3 acrylics on paper
70 / 50
Alex Svi
1 question
Arles 2016
Somexki Collection
35 photographs
William Randolph Hearst, born in San Francisco in 1863 and died in Beverly Hills in 1951, was an American businessman and newspaper magnate. The leading exponent of yellow journalism and propagator of fake news, according to some, or the ‘precursor’ of investigative journalism at the end of the 19th century like Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World, according to others, he inspired Orson Welles' famous Citizen Kane.
Hearst Castle was the press magnate's sumptuous estate, located between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It was built between 1919 and 1947 by architect Julia Morgan for Hearst and his mistress, actress Marion Davies. The palace illustrates the immoderation of the mythical palaces of Antiquity, transposed to the heart of an equally mythical California.
