peterlindbergh

When i decided to start this blog, i wanted as a first post to be the one that i am about to write now. I have been searching on the internet for weeks, but i had no idea who the photographer was, nothing about the shoot or the model. I was only about 8 years old when my mother was riffling through Harper’s Bazaar and she showed me that editorial.

It was Peter Lindbergh’s in 1993 and his photographs for Harper’s Bazaar, in which Amber Valletta was cast as an angel who had unaccountably landed in New York. This shoot was mend to be one of the most tender and warmly received series he has made.

Baci  e  Abbracci

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magazine: Velvet 2009

photography: Annie Leibovitz, magazine: Vogue US

magazine: Vogue Germany – December 2007

magazine: Numero March 2009

photography: Camilla Akrans, magazine: Numero

photography: unknown, magazine: Vogue Germany – December 2007, model: Lisa Cant

photography: Mario Testino, magazin: V, dress: Balmain, model: Natalia Vodianova

source: google

source: this is glamourous

photography: Joe Zee, magazine: Elle May 2009, model: Drew Barrymore, dress: Dolce & Gabana, inspiration: Elle’s Blue theme and also by a vintage Lillian Bassman photograph – also on Alibee!

photography: Peter Lindbergh, magazine: Bazaar March 2009, model:Sarah Jessica Parker, dress: Chanel

magazine: Vogue Paris

model: daria werbowy

photography: Lachlan Bailey, magazine: Vogue China January 2010, model: Kendra Spears

arlenis is represented by marilyn model management.
she appears in the FW09 campaign for jeweler, david yurman, as seen.
anna jagodzinzksa & amber valleta also appear for this same season.
it’s dope to see a woman of color in a major campaign.
photographic credit to peter lindbergh.

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There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
Stefan Kanfer

artist: Peter Nidzgorski, source: this isn’t happiness, tumblr via ffffound

photography: Steven Klein, source: Calvin Klein Underwear ad 2009, models:Eva Mendes & Jamie Dornan

photography: Elle Arden, Source: Black and White Zebra with Black Background

source: google, model: James Dean

source: Friends of Type via ffffound

source: k (1 of 11) en Flickr: ¡Intercambio de fotos!

source: google

photography: Ansel Adams, location: Grand Tetons, Wyoming

model: my grandaddy

source: google

source: google, model: Jimi Hendrix

photography: silja Magg, source: Women Management, model: Katarina Ivanovska

photography: Heidi Slimane, source: FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world

source: Hubble’s Black and White View of the Universe

source: google

photography: Peter Lindbergh, souce: Numero

source: Ampersanderson via ffffound

photography: Ansel Adams

photography: Allan Rostron

Source: High Society (1956), model: Grace Kelly

photography: David Byun, source: W Korea April 2009, stylist: Yahaira Familia

source: Japanese Numero April 2008

photography: Hugh Morton 1982, model: Jim Braddock  UNC vs Villanova

model: Ray Charles

models: Kennedy family

source: google

source: v-mag model: Naomi Campbell

source: NY daily news, model: Jesse Owens at 36′ Berlin olympics

source: google

photography: Mario Testino, source: German Vogue June 08

photography: Mario Testino, model: Naomi Campbell

photography: Otto Rogge, source: Ocean, Ottophoto

photography: Karim Sadli model: Abbey Lee

source: Beatles

photography: Robert Longos source: “Men in the Cities” series – 1980s via Ryan’s Facebook,

source: Boston Ballet

photography: Raffee, source: Kid in the Park via Raffee

source: Bright Idea Brilliantly Delivered on the Behance Network via ffffound

model: Filippa Hamilton

source: shuttle launch

source: Sand Dunes, Izismile

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson via 30+ Pieces of Inspiring, Funny and Interesting Advice – My Modern Metropolis

(US) The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is an industry trade group for editors of magazines published in the United States. The Annual Best Cover Contest Winners were chosen by Amazon.com customers, Rolling Stone’s July 2008 issue featuring President Obama was hailed the ‘Cover of the Year’. Here are the 2009 Best Magazine Cover Winners and Finalists with my personal picks.

MAGAZINE COVER OF 2009

2009 Best in Entertainment & Celebrity Magazine Cover Finalists and Winner

Source: http://www.magazine.org/

When we look at these photos, all we can think of is how ridiculous the comments from Self Magazine FAIL in every which way in regards to the Kelly Clarkson photoshoot.

Renowned Fashion Photographer Peter Lindbergh decided he had had enough of airbrushing and how it makes women in magazines look like “objects from Mars”. He says “that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”
Lindbergh not being one to comment and stand idly by, photographed supermodels, including Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christensen, and Amber Valetta, without makeup or excessive retouching (think flyaway hair, a blemish, or a wrinkle in clothing) for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

And they were GORGEOUS!

Women are too often forced to chase after impossible and unrealistic ideals that they themselves would never normally pursue if they had not had the initial notion planted into their minds in the first place with silly magazine covers depicting ”high-fashion” and the ”ideals of today”.

Morri com esse editorial da Harper’s Bazaar  de dezembro.  Mariacarla Boscono é a modelo fotografada por Peter Lindbergh.

mariacarla boscono represented by supreme models.
she was shot editorially for the december issue of harper’s bazaar.
i love the styling of this edit & the circus theme is executed well.
photographic credit peter lindbergh.

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Na revista Harper’s Bazaar deste mês você encontra o editorial Winter’s Best Coat com a modelo Carmen Kass, fotografada pelo renomado fotógrafo de moda Peter Lindbergh. A produção contou o style de Jenny Capitain, a maquiagem foi por conta da makeup artist Sabrina Bedrani e o cabelo de Ward Stegerhoek.

Esse editorial mostra os melhores casacos do inverno 2010, apresentando cores neon fuchsia is the new black, estampas de animais e o velho pretinho básico repaginado com tachas e pele fake, eu espero.

Michael Kors, Roberto Cavalli  e Balenciaga – i ♥ you!

Remember when people debated whether or not photography is a real art form? For a long time, pictorialism reigned, which meant most art photography copied the paintings and etchings of the time. But I think photography has really broken free of its initial shackles (and probably inferiority complex) and now seeks to capture what cannot be done in any other medium. I’m sure some would argue nowadays that fashion photography isn’t really “art”, but maybe it’s because they haven’t seen…

Richard Avedon

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Irving Penn

Helmut Newton

Mario Testino

Peter Lindbergh

I think every great photograph tells a story. Or rather, the photographer caught the subject in the middle of something, and it is up to the viewer to figure out the rest. A good photograph inspires the viewer’s imagination, but the entire experience is so seamless in that no words are needed and the photographer tricks us into believing our story is he/she intended to portray all along. SO CLEVER!!!

(I know I didn’t include Meisel, Demarchelier, Leibovitz, and so many other greats. Not because they are not great. But I needed to save some of them for another time!)

Als je de laatste tijd het nieuws een beetje hebt gevolgd, dan ken je de Ralph Lauren-kwestie vast wel. Weet je van niks? Hier een korte uitleg:

Onlangs werd het topmodel Fillipa Hamilton ontslagen omdat ze overgewicht zou hebben. Met haar 1.77 meter, 54 kilo en maatje 34, heeft ze als model een prima figuur. Voor een nieuwe campagne van Ralph Lauren was haar foto zo erg gephotoshopt dat haar hoofd zelfs groter was dan haar heupen. Een erg verwrongen beeld dus. De modewereld stond al een tijdje op z’n kop wat betreft het photoshoppen, maar dit wakkert de discussie nog even flink aan. Photoshoppen, kan het nu wel of niet? Moet er een zogenaamde photoshop-waarschuwing bij de afbeeldingen komen?

Het blijkt dat 40 procent van de meiden onzeker wordt van gephotoshopte modellen. Hiervan denkt 70 procent dat een photoshop-waarschuwing hen zekerder maakt over hun eigen lichaam. Toch best grote getallen lijkt mij. Een photoshop-waarschuwing hoeft niet groot in beeld gebracht te worden, zoals vele organisaties vrezen. Er kan een bepaald logo ontworpen worden om duidelijk te maken dat de foto geretoucheerd is. No big deal lijkt mij. Wel zo eerlijk tegenover het publiek!

Maar als je denkt dat alle modellen gephotoshopt worden om ze er mooier uit te laten zien, heb je het mis. Veel modellen zijn écht knap. Dat bewijst de fotoreportage Supermodels Supernatural van Peter Lindbergh. Deze foto’s tonen de modellen zoals ze werkelijk zijn, zonder make-up of photoshop. Dit bewijst dat photoshoppen eigenlijk nergens voor nodig is. Want waarom zou je aan een mooie lichaam gaan ’sleutelen’? Nieuws is toch de waarheid? Adverteerders horen consumenten toch de waarheid te brengen? Tegenwoordig wordt hier heel anders over gedacht.. Bekijk deze prachtige, natuurlijke foto’s eens.

+ The Bohemian Couture by Peter Lindbergh –Vogue Italia September 1998 +

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        No, no me refería a esto cuando dije que me apetecía algo de otoño ya; yo hablaba de calles que se cubren de hojas caídas, de días románticamente grises, de ver como llueve fuera mientras en casa suena The Limit to Your Love de Feist, de ponerse un jersey de punto grueso y tomarse un té de canela. De eso hablaba yo, el frío-frío era totalmente prescindible.

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       No, I didn’t really mean this when I said I already wanted some fall time; I meant streets covered with fallen leaves, romantic grey days, watching how it rains outside while at home is playing something like The Limit to Your Love by Feist, wearing a thick knit jersey and having a nice hot cinnamon tea. That was what I meant, this cold-cold was totally dispensable.

16th century King Philip II of Spain is a significant historical figure for me, although I enjoyed more of Cate Blanchett’s 1998 “Elizabeth” than the 2007 sequel “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”, I’m  amused to watch one of my favorite actor Jordi Mollà on the latter playing the part of the king where my country of birth was named in his honour.

With the holy water, I got baptized into Christianity, my spanish name Navo, my mother Elvira and my father Cesar, both names of spanish origins, unlike me, the Philippines has more name changing than a witness on a protection program, the ancient Greeks called the archipelago of 7,107 islands “Maniolas”, Chinese traders named it “Ma-yi”, which means “Land of Gold”, the Portuguese born-Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan baptized it “Archipelago of St. Lazarus”,  few years after and another explorer of mother Spain Ruy López de Villalobos renamed the colony “Felipinas” in honor of Prince Felipe (later crowned as King Philip II), later evolved to “Filipinas”, the Americans called it “The Philippine Islands” and at present time “Republic of the Philippines”.

Most people familiar with my work are surprise I’m not a “60 yr old overweight blond caucasian dude” the first time they meet me, another creative or a model, or someone I bump into a line for my venti iced caramel macchiato in starbucks, the top inquiry is, “where is that accent from?” Il’d reply-“Philippines”, they’ll say- “Oh, Manny Pacquiao“, suddenly it hit me, the modern world has renamed the island of my ancestors “Republic of PACMAN”. The ancient Greeks will see the “Maniolas” renamed after the gladiator PACMAN, as America “the United States of Britney Spears” to the middle east, as far as I remember when I was living there. But this is not about Filipino gladiators in the world history of Sports, but the Filipinos who made a name and headlines in the world of Fashion.

It’s fascinating and sometimes appalling to read or watch the news to know that a visionary magazine editor, a notable fashion designer, an iconic first lady, a groundbreaking model, and a controversial Versace murderer has altered and continue changing the course of the world’s fashion history as we speak. Quoting the author Hodding Carter “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”

Stephen Gan

Creative director at Harper’s Bazaar, co-founder of Visionaire, editor-in-chief of V Magazine and Vman magazine.

Born (1966) and raised in the Philippines, arrived in New York City when he was 18, immediately becoming a prominent NYC club kid Gan studied at Parsons School of Design and began his career as a photographer. In 1986—while he was still a student—legendary Times lensman Bill Cunningham shot a photo of Gan on the street in SoHo, took him for coffee and a cookie, and gave him a quarter to call Annie Flanders, the soon-to-be editor of Details. Gan’s meeting with Cunningham proved fortuitous: Flanders later offered him the position of fashion editor at Details. After the magazine was sold to Condé Nast and Gan was kicked to the curb, he used $7,000 of his severance pay to print 1,000 copies of Visionaire with co-founders James Kaliardos and Cecilia Dean.

In 1999, he launched V Magazine, an offshoot of Visionaire focusing on young art, fashion, and culture. His day job, though, is at Harper’s Bazaar, where he was named creative director in 2001, one of Glenda Bailey’s first hires as editor-in-chief. Gan is also director of Dream Project, a creative powerhouse, with advertising clients such as Calvin Klein, Dior, Fendi, Shiseido, Olay Colour Europe, Tommy Hilfiger, D&G and Missoni.

Monique Lhuillier

Born (1971) and raised in Cebu, Philippines, fashion designer based in the United States. She’s the daughter of Michel Lhuiller, a successful businessman of mixed French Filipino descent, and Amparito Llamas, a society figure & former model of Spanish-Cebuano Filipino descent. Lhuillier’s family is prominent in Philippine society. Lhuillier demonstrated good taste and great imagination at an early age. At 15, she was an outstanding student in Lausanne, Switzerland and hoped to become successful in the fashion industry. Her parents sent her to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), where she met the man she married, Tom Bugbee. Lhuillier and Bugbee, a young, dynamic husband and wife team, founded their company in 1996 and launched their first bridal collection. The line was extremely well-received by fashion-savvy brides, editors, and celebrities.

The breakthrough came after Monique designed the gowns for her wedding entourage. These captured the fancy of couture circles. Having had a difficult time finding her own gown, Lhuillier, a 23-year-old newlywed at the time, decided to begin sketching her own line of dresses. She made the news with two high-profile celebrity weddings in a row. She designed Christine Baumgartner’s wedding dress for her Fall, 2004 wedding to Kevin Costner shortly after designing both of Britney Spears’s dresses for her wedding to Kevin Federline. She’s also designed the wedding gown of US former Vice President and former Second Lady Al and Tipper Gore’s youngest daughter, Sarah G. Lee, for her marriage to Bill Lee, and also Heidi Montag’s wedding dress to Spencer Pratt. Also, one of her gowns is used by Hilary Duff when she plays Sam in A Cinderella Story. Subsequently Lhuillier added evening wear to her line, and several of her efforts showed up on red carpets before awards shows. For the Fall, 2007 season she branched off into more typical runway collections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Lhuillier

Anna Bayle

Born (1959) and raised in the Philippines, a Filipina model who achieved success in the late 1970s and 1980s. She became one of the highest paid models of her time.

Bayle worked for numerous New York designers and became a design consultant to some established fashion houses. She did national and international campaigns for fashion houses and major department stores, as well as calendars for Elite Modeling Agency and Shiseido Cosmetics. She was featured in numerous fashion books, such as Mugler, Chanel, Scaasi, Valentino, Versace, YSL, Dior, Fashion Illustrations by Antonio, etc. Bayle was photographed by fashion photographers including Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Sante D’ Orazio, Peter Beard, David Seidner, Olivero Toscani, Arthur Elgort, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Skrebneski, Alex Chatelain and Paolo Roversi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bayle

Andrew Cunanan (1969 – 1997)

An American spree killer who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan’s suicide, at age 27. On June 12, 1997, Cunanan became the 449th fugitive to be listed by the FBI on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Cunanan was born in National City, California, the youngest of four children to Modesto Cunanan and Mary Anne Shilacci.

In 1981, his father enrolled him in The Bishop’s School in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California. At school, Cunanan was remembered as being bright and very talkative, testing with an I.Q. of 147, but he was often bullied. As a teenager, he developed a reputation as a prolific liar, given to telling fantastic tales about his family and personal life; he was also adept at changing his appearance according to what he felt was most attractive at a given moment. After graduating from high school in 1987, he became a student at University of California, San Diego, where he majored in American history.
 After graduating from UCSD, he settled in the Castro District of San Francisco. There, he frequented high-class gay bars and prostituted himself to wealthy, older men. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan

“Still, there was a lot of surface masquerade going on. There was a lot of Andrew Cunanan that Andrew Cunanan did not like. He began to, using author Clarkson’s word, “reinvent” himself almost as a cause celebre. Glamour became the keyword; he wanted to be glamorous. Firstly, he did not like being Filipino, so he suddenly became Latino and acted out the part with the verve of an Antonio Banderas. At the bars he was known as either Andrew DaSilva or David Morales. A chameleon, he changed faces and figures with a pair of stylish glasses or a trim of his sideburns, or through the transformation from a suited Clark Kent to a T-shirt wearing Superman. Even though he was Personality A on Friday night, he could be Personality B at the same spot on Saturday and get away with it. Those who spent hours with him at the bar one night would not recognize him the next.” http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/cunanan/index_1.html

Imelda Marcos

The widow of former President Ferdinand Marcos, and is herself an influential political figure in the Philippines. Imelda was born on July 2, 1929 in Manila. Her own branch of the family was not political. Her father was a scholarly man more interested in music and culture than in public life. Her mother, Remedios Trinidad, a dressmaker who grew up in an orphanage in Manila, said to have been an illegitimate offspring of a friar.

Marcos’s extravagant lifestyle reportedly included five-million-dollar shopping tours in New York, Rome and Copenhagen in 1983, and sending a plane to pick up Australian white sand for a new beach resort. She purchased a number of properties in Manhattan in the 1980s, including the $51-million Crown Building and the $60-million Herald Centre; she declined to purchase the Empire State Building for $750m as she considered it “too ostentatious.” Her New York real estate was later seized and sold, along with much of her jewels and most of her 175 piece art collection, which included works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Canaletto.

After the Marcos family fled Malacañang Palace, Marcos was found to have left behind 15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 1000 handbags and 3000 pairs of shoes. In February 2006, Marcos insisted that her husband acquired his wealth legitimately as a gold trader. By the late 1950s, she claimed, he had amassed a personal fortune of 7,500 tons of gold, and after gold prices climbed in the 1970s, the Marcos family was worth about $35 billion. However, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has no record of the Marcos family declaring or paying taxes on these assets, and the source of their wealth remains open to investigation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos

Tatjana Patitz for Vogue UK, November 1989, cover by Peter Lindbergh

無意看見Bazaar今期的內頁，看見幾位昔日的超模素顏上陣，以真面目示人，攝影師是有名的Peter Lindbergh。他在1990年為Bazzar英國版拍攝，集齊五大超模Evangelista、Christy Turlington、Naomi Campbell、Cindy Crawford和Tatjana Patitz在紐約下城拍了一輯照片。

大家最記得他拍過的超模是這一幅。

攝影：Peter Lindbergh

近年，很多昔日的超模都重出江湖，Christy Turlington之前替Vogue拍了一輯深入窮鄉僻壤的照片，她的臉雖有點滄桑，但卻多了一種成熟世故的美。老實說，幾十歲，一點皺紋也沒有才恐怖。Cindy Crawford更大膽，以四十三歲「超齡」替Allure拍了一輯幾近全裸的照片，還說十年前一定不會這樣做。照片一出街，馬上引來很多讀者的讚美。

她們以前美，現在都美。有些人說要趁青春留倩影，青春時有青春時的美，老了，也同樣可以有美感的。

Nadando na contracorrente da massa de fotógrafos e editores que têm investido pesado em make e Photoshop para criar imagens de beleza ideal, o fotógrafo Peter Lindbergh apresenta mais uma série de retratos realistas, no melhor estilo a vida como ela é, na edição de setembro da “Harper’s Bazaar”.

O resultado é surpreendente!

A maioria para mim está mais bonita ao natural do que maquiada!

Hoje é aniversário da Vogue alemã – 30 aninhos de vida e sucesso. O aniversário é da revista mas o grande cliché publicitário me permite dizer que o presente, mein schatz, quem ganha é você! Você que é rhica e pode ter esse três volumes de 732 páginas recheadíssimos de tudo luxuoso desse mundo. Tô aqui confabulando e tentando pensar numa forma de tê-los sem aniquilar minhas economias = cheque especial. Os editores dessa edição especial são Karl Lagerfeld, Bruce Weber e Peter Lindbergh – mandando ver nos editoriais homenageando a empresa e o país que minha amiga Emily tanto ama. Os três usaram Berlim de cenário exceto o Weber que fotografou em NY e em Montauk – mas ainda assim usando linguagem e elementos referenciais à Alemanha.

Karl se inspirou no pós-1ª Guerra Mundial e fotografou super models do país. Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Diane Kruger (tá bombando e vivendo a fama de Inglorious Bastards), Kirsten Dunst e Edita Vilkeviciute.  Claudia Schiffer assumiu o papel de Rosemerie Nitribitt, uma telefonista cuja morte violenta escandalizou os 50’s. Ficaram lindas né!