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Guy Bourdin (Photography)
Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) created some of the most challenging and seductive fashion photographs of the last century. He worked for Vogue Paris for over thirty years, from 1955 to 1987, and his images filled the pages of international fashion magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s in groundbreaking campaigns for Charles Jourdan, Bloomingdales and Issey Miyake. His glamorous, yet often surreal, work revolutionized the genre of fashion photography, presenting fashion as the luxurious embellishment rather than the subject of his images, which depict dark fantasies of lust, consumption and desire. Bourdin's legacy can still be seen in the work of photographers such as Stephen Meisel and Helmut Newton.
About the Author:Alison M. Gingeras is Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
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Investigating the deathly side of Guy Bourdin
He turned up at Vogue on a camel and took sleeping pills to elongate his dreams - on the anniversary of the photographer’s death, we take a look at the morbid obsessions that fired his fashion imagery
During the 1970s and 80s, no other fashion photographer mixed sex with death quite as ably as the late Frenchman Guy Bourdin who died on this day (March 29) in 1991.
The French fashion photographer who, despite his early friendship with Man Ray, insisted his pictures should not be viewed as fine art, and harboured some particularly morbid fascinations.
Guy Bourdin's first shoot for Vogue, Paris, 1955
His first shoot for Vogue, for its February 1955 edition, was staged in a Parisian meat market. His famous 1980 Pentax calendar image places the US model Nicolle Meyer naked and prone beside a pool of blood-red nail polish; his 1982-83 campaign image for Roland Pierre looked more like a police accident record than a fashion photograph, while his 1975 image for Charles Jourdan shoes didn’t even a feature a model, but instead linked the red of the wedge heels featured with bloody drips emerging from a electrical socket
Guy Bourdin, Charles Jourdan advertisement (1975)
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Guy Bourdin
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