Guy Bourdin : a message for you / curated and written by Nicolle Meyer ; edited by Shelly Verthime ; creative direction by Pascal Dangin.
With the eye of a painter Guy Bourdin created images containing fascinating stories, compositions and colors. Using fashion photography as his medium, Bourdin explored the provocative and the sublime with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Göttingen, Germany :
Steidldangin,
[2013]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Summary: | With the eye of a painter Guy Bourdin created images containing fascinating stories, compositions and colors. Using fashion photography as his medium, Bourdin explored the provocative and the sublime with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, Bourdin radically broke conventions of commercial photography and in the process captured the imagination of a generation. The late 1970s, recognized as the high note of his career, is the focal point of this new edition, which combines in one book the two volumes of the original 2006 publication. The first part of A Message for You shows the legendary, nearly forgotten images and rarely seen variants of a single model, Nicolle Meyer. She appeared in over thirty of Bourdin's famous campaigns for Charles Jourdan and in iconic French Vogue editorials. The second part of the book explores Bourdin's pictorial landscape, a collage of images that maps his artistic vision. The texts, Polaroids, poems, sketches and contact sheets unfold through Nicolle Meyer's memories and capture moments of Bourdin's work in progress. |
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| Physical Description: | 313 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783869305516 3869305517 |