Comments on: The photographer of the species is deadlier than the male

The photographer of the species is deadlier than the male

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:28:17 -0800

Guy Bourdin, Photographer Extraordinaire, 1928-1991 He was the most controversial of the not-really-fashion fashion photographers. "Too sexy, too necro, too sado, too gratuitously violent, too misogynist", they said. Now he's on the verge of a big retrospective, opening Saturday at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; being exhibited at leading galleries; lauded in the NYT and the object of a website as excellent as the one in my main link. [ These last 3 links go directly to the portfolios.] I just hope - being old enough to remember being severely scolded by my parents for collecting the photographs he published in my generation's vademecum, the since-degraded French magazine Photo - that these far more politically correct times (specially in increasingly intolerant, hygienist and puritanical America) won't prove to be even less welcoming of his work than his own times were.[ *sigh* Probably still NSFW, though most of his work was flipped through by our mothers in Vogue magazine more than 20 years ago...]

By: biscotti

biscotti — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:12:40 -0800

Very cool, Miguel. Thanks! Bourdin had his own, much-copied, style. I was mildly surprised to see that he was born in 1928, but I guess coolness knows no age. Even the more cliche of his pictures are interesting to look at - he had a very good eye for lighting textures. Nice post. [this is good]

By: plep

plep — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 04:58:22 -0800

[this is good] - thanks Miguel.

By: soulhuntre

soulhuntre — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:14:20 -0800

No doubt the folks over at About Face hate him - then again, they don't seem to like much of anyone in the fashion or advertising world. :)