Peter Lindbergh is also remembered for his 1993 close-up of Berri Smither and her freckles. Black and white penetrates the skin: for me, it’s not about beautiful or not beautiful, but about real or not real.” Helena Christensen and ET, Californie 1990 © Peter Lindbergh.īerri Smither, Californie 1993 © Peter Lindbergh. “He found his style very quickly,” says Simon, his son, who opened up the photographer’s archives and became very involved in the exhibition, “because he wanted to be faithful to the human being he was.” As Peter Lindbergh himself said: “With black and white, you don’t try to make things prettier, make things chic or make things agreeable, no, black and white is authentic… The color stops on the surface. Peter Lindbergh is also identifiable by his use of black and white, a constant in his work decade after decade: soft and deep, the shades of gray are timeless, as if covered with patina. Many of the German photographer’s icons are to be found in the exhibition: the beautiful and the extraterrestrial on a dirt road in California (1990), the views of a factory in Nancy (1988), Amber Valletta with her angel wings in the streets of New York (1993), and many others memorable compositions. “He did not treat women as an object but the subject of his photographs,” notes Gilles Morat, artistic director of the Pavillon Populaire. By showing them move, blossom, and interact in front of the camera as a group of friends, Peter Lindbergh made them look like real people, like us. This was indeed the first generation of models to reach star status. Wim Wenders is an admirer of his work.Marie-Sophie Wilson, Tatiana Patitz © Peter Lindbergh. He prefers his model to have minimal make-up and a simple hairstyle. He is considered to be one of the world's preeminent fashion photographers, particularly in black and white, and is credited with helping create the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s. A new upcoming project is an advert video shoot for Mariah Carey’s new fragrance, 'M'. He also photographed Céline Dion for her perfume ad. His photographs have been published by Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines. Moving to Paris in 1978, to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz as well as other projects with Karl Lagerfeld, Daryl Hannah, Giorgio Armani and more. He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. Lindbergh was born in Poland and grew up in Duisburg.

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