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The impact of Bourdin's imagery on the realms of both commercial and fine art photography continues to resonate today. He made radical changes in both the style and the meaning of commercial imagery. His fashion shoots are mysterious, hypnotic, surreal, exposing the true and unnerving nature of desire. He shows us that, within the context of fashion, it is rarely the product that compels us. It is the image - the carefully staged narrative of sexual fantasy, the quest for the unattainable, the suggestion of danger - that stimulates consumer desire.;Guy Bourdin was born in 1928 and during his youth in post-war Paris, he showed precocious artistic talent and fierce ambition. He presented himself to Man Ray in the early 1950s and was then spotted by French Vogue, where he went on to create some of their most sensational editorial images for over 30 years. His advertisements for Charles Jourdan shoes and Bloomingdales in the mid 1970s were the high point of his career and landmarks in the field of advertising. Throughout his life, Bourdin created images at a relentless pace and his work calls to mind the surrealist films of Bunuel or David Lynch. The images chosen for this book include
About the Author
Charlotte Cotton is a Curator in the V&A's Department of Photographs. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the acclaimed Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A and works with many well-known and up-and-coming photographers from around the world. She is the author of Imperfect Beauty, The Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs (V&A, 2000).
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beautiful images, Mar 8 2011
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This review is from: Guy Bourdin (Hardcover)
I got this for a friend as a gift and it was a big hit. The quality of the paper, images and graphics are wonderful
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Glacial cool Guy Bourdin, Jan 15 2010
By C. Moss "lotzsahgoodbooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Guy Bourdin (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book published to complement the stunning Guy Bourdin exhibtion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London held in 2003.The book carries all the images displayed in the exhibition in a digtially remastered form with a clarity that makes them hyper real. There are also unpublished photographs and others unseen for over 25 years. This makes for a far superior book visually to the previously published Exhibit A: Guy Bourdin: A Biographical Essay by Michel Guerrin where the photographs seemed subdued and toned down. The book also carries some of Bourdinï¿s notes which are as seductive as the photographs themselves eg. ï¿Two girls kissing through a sheet of glassï¿ . In depth essays on the photographer's work are also included.
The typography perfectly fits reflects the heady mix of photographic work that is at once typical of the 70s and yet feels as fresh, clean and provocative as if it were produced today. A mixture of material and high gloss image on the cover lend a tactile edge to the book.
Classy, provocative and glacially cool youï'll need a very good coffee table to do this book justice.
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