Peter Lindbergh Essay

Peter Lindbergh it is known for his indelible cinematic images typically shot in black and white. Born in Lissa in the year of 1944, he spent his childhood in Duisburg where he also worked as a window dresser for a department stores called Karstadt and Horten. Later, Peter studied Abstract Art at the College of Art in Krefeld. Being influenced by the Conceptual Art movement , he is invited in 1969, before graduating, to present his work at the Galerie Denise Rene. In the year of 1971 he started to have an interest in photography and he was an assistant for two years ,for the photographer Hans Lux . A few years after he opened his own studio, Peter Lindbergh, moved to Paris and has been given the opportunity to work for international Vogue – English, German, French, American and Italian.

The photographer has worked for campaigns like David Yurman and Calvin Klein doing mostly editorial work with an emotive and cinematic aesthetic. He managed to change the standards of the fashion photography industry with a new vision on what the contemporary woman is. Peter was also one of the pioneers photographers that integrated storylines into their fashion editorials. The photoshoot that Peter Lindbergh had done for Italian Vogue in the year of 1990 will change the vision of others photographers on fashion photography, being one of the first to incorporate a storyline.

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This photograph showing Helena Christensen playing a Martian is marked as emblematic and it has a great value for the evolution of narrative fashion editorials.

First of all, what I find most interesting in Peter Lindbergh’s ‘works of art’ is that his erotic pictures of women and evocative imagery somehow create a ‘sublime beauty’. A great example could be the fashion photograph taken in 1999 for Italian Vogue .