Beschreibung

With the eye of a painter Guy Bourdin created images containing fascinating stories, compositions and colours. Using
fashion photography as his medium, Bourdin explored the provocative and the sublime with a relentless perfectionism
and sharp humour. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, Bourdin radically broke conventions of
commercial photography and in the process captured the imagination of a generation. The late 1970s, recognised as
the high note of his career, is the focal point of this new edition, which combines in one book the two volumes of the
original 2006 publication. The first part of A Message for You shows the legendary, nearly forgotten images and rarely
seen variants of a single model, Nicolle Meyer. She appeared in over thirty of Bourdin s famous campaigns for Charles
Jourdan and in iconic French Vogue editorials. The second part of the book explores Bourdin s pictorial landscape, a
collage of images that maps his artistic vision. The texts, Polaroids, poems, sketches and contact sheets unfold through
Nicolle Meyer s memories and capture moments of Bourdin s work in progress.
The career of fashion photographer Guy Bourdin (1928 1991) spans over three decades. He worked for international
magazines such as French, Italian and British Vogue and Harper s Bazaar, and made advertising campaigns for Charles
Jourdan, Chanel, Issey Miyake and Gianni Versace among others. Bourdin s awards include the Grand Prix National de
la Photographie, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York. His work is held in
prestigious museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National
Museum of China. Steidl published Bourdin s In Between in 2010.

Klappentext

With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories, compositions and colors. He radically broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, Bourdin used fashion photography to explore the realm between the absurd and the sublime.
Now in its third edition, A Message for You is a road trip through Bourdin's visual landscape, a collage of images that maps his artistic search and vision. The texts, Polaroids, poems, sketches and contact sheets unfold in real time through the memories of model Nicolle Meyer, a muse to Bourdin. Given total creative freedom and with an uncompromising artistic ethic, Bourdin captured the imagination of a whole generation. The late 1970s, recognized as the pinnacle of his career, are the focus of this monograph, which is the last of eight books exploring his most outstanding and undiscovered work so far.