Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Guy Bourdin

Charlotte Cotton

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Guy Bourdin created the most challenging fashion photography of the late 20th century. Over a 35-year career, including more than three decades creating confrontational images for French Vogue and groundbreaking campaigns for Charles Jourdan footwear, he staged complex dramas, with every gesture and prop carrying a potent psychological charge. He showed us that in the context of fashion it is rarely the product that compels us; it is the image--the seductive narratives of the commercial world, and the quest for the unattainable--that stirs our desires. Today, Bourdin stands as one of the most influential image-makers of all time. Bourdin cultivated his anonymity, refusing all proposals for books and exhibitions during his lifetime. This volume, published to coincide with the first major exhibition of his photographs, showcases not only his fashion images but also his brooding landscapes and magical cityscapes. The photographs are accompanied by five specially commissioned essays, which together offer the first thorough analysis of Bourdin's unique creativity.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Release: June 01, 2003

ISBN: 0810966050

ISBN 13: 9780810966055

Guy Bourdin

Charlotte Cotton

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Guy Bourdin created the most challenging fashion photography of the late 20th century. Over a 35-year career, including more than three decades creating confrontational images for French Vogue and groundbreaking campaigns for Charles Jourdan footwear, he staged complex dramas, with every gesture and prop carrying a potent psychological charge. He showed us that in the context of fashion it is rarely the product that compels us; it is the image--the seductive narratives of the commercial world, and the quest for the unattainable--that stirs our desires. Today, Bourdin stands as one of the most influential image-makers of all time. Bourdin cultivated his anonymity, refusing all proposals for books and exhibitions during his lifetime. This volume, published to coincide with the first major exhibition of his photographs, showcases not only his fashion images but also his brooding landscapes and magical cityscapes. The photographs are accompanied by five specially commissioned essays, which together offer the first thorough analysis of Bourdin's unique creativity.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Release: June 01, 2003

ISBN: 0810966050

ISBN 13: 9780810966055

More books from Charlotte Cotton

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Photography Is Magic

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Imperfect Beauty

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Bruce Davidson

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Sze Tsung Leong: Horizons

3.5/5 ( ratings)

International Pop

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel

#chainofaction

David Hilliard

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

Photoworks, Issue 15

Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow

Fotografia jako sztuka współczesna

Words Without Pictures

Corpus: Beyond the Body

Machine Project: The Platinum Collection

Ed Panar: Golden Palms

In and Out of Fashion

Rate this book!

Write a review?