Clermont Lounge by Cyril Bailleul

Clermont Lounge by Cyril Bailleul
Oct 2, 2024 – Nov 30, 2024

789 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
Atlanta, GA

French photographer Cyril Bailleul has been an artist-in-residence at the Clermont Lounge since 2014, inspired by the atmosphere of this iconic Atlanta strip club. Over the last decade, the women of the Clermont Lounge have trusted Cyril to capture them in their essence, using only the club’s dimly lit décor and the adjoining Hotel Clermont as the source of inspiration:

''My photography is all about relationships and giving something back. Often, I let my subjects create the scene and the atmosphere, allowing myself to be guided by what they provide. In exchange, I try to offer a beautiful image. I want to pay homage to the women and show their beauty''”

Following the exhibition of “Girls Girls Girls” in Paris in 2017 (Jacques De Vos Gallery) and “Above Where the Ladies Dance” for the reopening of the Hotel Clermont in 2018, Cyril returns to celebrate his 10 years as Artist in Residence at the Clermont Lounge and Hotel Clermont with “789 Ponce de Leon Avenue,” his first exhibition inside the Lounge itself.

As the lounge approaches its 60th anniversary in 2025, it continues to be an integral part of the vintage 1924 building that also houses the Hotel Clermont. There has been “entertainment” in the building’s basement since 1943: Anchorage Club, the Gypsy Room, the Continental Room, briefly an unofficial Atlanta Playboy Club, the Jungle Club and of course, since 1965 everyone knows this is the home of the Clermont Lounge.


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