It was on a Malibu beach in 1988 that Peter Lindbergh shot the
White Shirts series, images now known the world over. Simple yet
seminal, the photographs introduced us to Linda Evangelista,
Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana
Patitz, and Estelle Lefebure. This marked the beginning of an era
that redefined beauty, and Lindbergh would go on to alter the
landscape of fashion photography for the decades that followed.
This book gathers more than 300 images from forty years of
Lindbergh's career. It traces the German photographer's cinematic
inflections and humanist approach, which produced images at once
seductive and introspective. In 1980 Rei Kawakubo asked Lindbergh
to shoot a Commes des Garcons campaign, one of his earlier forays
into commercial photography. Kawakubo gave him carte blanche. The
following years brought forth collaborations with the most
venerated names in fashion and resulted in a relationship of mutual
reverence; Lindbergh's respect for some of the greatest designers
of our time is palpable in his portraits. Among those photographed
are Azzedine Alaia, Giorgio Armani, Alber Elbaz, John Galliano,
Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint
Laurent, Jil Sander, and Yohji Yamamoto. Widely considered a
pioneer in his field, Lindbergh shirked the industry standards of
beauty and instead celebrated the essence and individuality of his
subjects. He was pivotal to the rise of models such as Kate Moss,
Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Mariacarla
Boscono, Lara Stone, Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valletta, Nadja
Auermann, and Kristen McMenamy. Lindbergh's reach also extended
across Hollywood and beyond: Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling,
Richard Gere, Isabelle Huppert, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Brad Pitt,
Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau all appear in his works. From
the picture chosen by Anna Wintour as the cover of her first Vogue
issue to the legendary shot of Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower, it
is never the clothes, celebrity, or glamour that takes center stage
in a Lindbergh photograph. Each picture conveys the humanity of its
subject with a serene melancholy that is uniquely and unmistakably
Lindbergh. From the outset of his career, Lindbergh was well-known
in the contemporary art world, where his photographs were exhibited
in galleries long before they appeared in magazines. This edition
features an updated introduction adapted from an interview in 2016,
allowing a glimpse behind Lindbergh's lens, where the photographer
recounts his early collaborations, the tenuous relationship between
commercial and fine art, and the power of storytelling.
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