a different vision on fashion photography peter lindbergh

Organized in a thematic manner - the exhibition encompasses eight areas of the photographer’s work and his greatest developed passions - Supermodels, Couturiers, Zeitgeist, Dance, Unknown, Dark Room, Silver Screen and Icons. Moreover, one gets to observe exclusive and previously unseen material, as well as personal notes, storyboards, props, polaroids, films, contact sheets and monumental prints. His exhibition - “A different vision on fashion photography”, curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, premiered last winter at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam and is in itself a collection of over 220 most epochal pieces from 1978 until today. He, having worked with the most prestigious fashion brands and magazines, is irrevocably the icon of millions, the father of black-and-white reality and the man, who had liberated the female presentation from the myth of perfection and youth.

With emphasis on spirit, personality and authenticity he had gone a long way to present to us the beauty at different ages - no Photoshop, no make-up and no ‘best light’. His iconic, cinematic, and most importantly - raw and untouched images, have become root to a form of new vision in art and fashion photography, defined by timelessness, soul-centered standards of allure and a strong storytelling approach. It was a mark to the start of an entirely new fashion era of top-models and a drastically different direction in female beauty appraisal. He had issued the “birth certificate of the supermodels” (as he himself calls it). When the German photographer Peter Lindbergh shot five young models - Linda,Christy, Tatjana, Naomi and Cindy in downtown New York in 1989, he created more than the iconic British Vogue January 1990 cover. Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography

A different vision on fashion photography peter lindbergh