Where Art Meets Commerce: Ken Shung for Paul Stuart

Photo © Ken Shung

Ken Shung, best known for his advertising and editorial work (for clients such as Lancôme, Chanel and Donna Karan), has a personal passion for music that recently led to an unusual, but lucrative coupling. 

Retailer Paul Stuart combined Shung’s photographic talents and his love for music with an “art meets commerce” idea last summer, showcasing fine-art-edition silver gelatin portraits of blues legends Willie Dixon (above) and Muddy Waters—from the photographer’s series on musicians captured in the dressing rooms of small clubs and concert halls—at the Paul Stuart stores in Chicago and New York. 

“This is a new market for selling fine-art images outside of the gallery world,” Shung says, “and positioning your work in new and more creative places.”

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