Guy Bourdin
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During the 1950s, the French photographer launched his career in fashion with assignments for Vogue Paris. He promptly changed the identity of fashion photography with the flawless, exotic and Surrealist-like images he created, bringing death, violence and fetichism into the pages of the French glossy magazine. Having always desired to become a painter, Guy Bourdin was among the first to imagine fashion photographies that contained fascinating narratives, dramatic effects with intense color saturation, hyper-realism and cropped compositions while he established the idea that the product is secondary to the image. A fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Macguffin’ technique - an inanimate object catalyzing the plot - the photographer constructed ‘crime scenes’, getting rid of all usual standards of beauty and morals while his images demanded cerebral responses. When such photographers as David Bailey, in the 1960s, produced fantasy images of the girl-next-door, Guy Bourdin captured the atmosphere of the 1970s with sharp humor, erotism and outrageous femininity. Collaborating with Issey Miyake, Chanel or Emmanuel Ungaro, it was his work for the shoe label, Charles Jourdan, that brought him the attention of a wider public. With the campaign, Guy Bourdin dared to barley show the product and turned the shoe into a trivial element of a theatrical mise-en-scène that enhanced sex and bad taste. A protégé of Man Ray in his young years, Guy Bourdin borrowed to his mentor his appetite for shock and questioning and influenced contemporary artists and photographers such as David La Chapelle and Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
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UK Vogue April 1st, 1966
"This Summer's Fashion Certainties"
Models: Celia Hammond, Jill Kennington, Jean Shrimpton, Moyra Swan & Unknowns
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Robin
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Vogue Paris March 1971
"Beauté 71: De tendres petits riens"
Model: Ingrid Boulting
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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UK Vogue October 1st, 1969
"Silly Long Way On"
Models: Penelope Tree, Maudie James & Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Christopher
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Vogue Paris September 1969
"Paris"
Models: Maudie James & Louise Despointes
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Christophe & Alexandre
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Vogue Paris August 1969
"Séduire..."
Models: Maudie James, Louise Despointes & Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Jean-Marc Maniatis
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Vogue Paris October 1969
"Bulletin beauté"
Models & Stars: Louise Despountes?, Maudie James, Moyra Swan, Joanna Shimkus, Olga Georges-Picot & Unknown
Photographers: Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Barry Lategan & Bert Stern
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UK Vogue February 1970 (Cover)
Model: Maudie James
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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Vogue Paris November 1968
"Les Frileuses Toutes en Cuir"
Model: Ingmari Lamy
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Thérèse Chardin
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Vogue Paris December 1970/January 1971
Models: Donna Jordan, Ingmari Lamy, Isabelle Weingarten & Helen Hogberg
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Guillaume
Makeup: Corey Tippin
WARNING: Nudity (Topless)
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Vogue Paris September 1971
Models: Tracy Weed, Anjelica Huston & Wallis Franken
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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Vogue Paris September 1971
"Beauté"
Models: Tracy Weed, Anjelica Huston & Wallis Franken
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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US Vogue December 1986
Montana's Modern Edge
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Model: Unknown
Hair: Christiphe Carita
Makeup: Jose-Luis
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UK Vogue March 1st, 1972
"Take Away Paris: Chloé"
Model: Pat Cleveland
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Jean-Louis David
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Vogue Italia September 1972
Models: Pat Cleveland & Aija?
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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US Vogue June 1987
Paris Shades of Difference
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Model: Kim Williams
Hair: Bruno Weppe
Makeup: Ramon Maldonado
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Harper's Bazaar France April 1991
"La Piscine"
Models: Eva Herzigova & Patricia Hartmann
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Lucie St. Clair
Makeup: Charlotte Willer
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Vogue Paris December 1986/January 1987 (Cover)
Models: Mikhail Baryshnikov & ballet dancers
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Vogue Italia April 1967
"Una Moda Pronta a Piacere: Il Piccolo Tailleur in Tessuti Leggeri"
Models: Donna Mitchell & Antonial
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
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Vogue Paris October 1969
"Une Folle Envie de Fourrures"
Models: Galya Milovskaya, Grace Coddington, Ariel de Ravenel, Beatrice Martin, Caterine Milinaire, Andrea Quinn & Marisa Berenson
Photographers: Arnaud de Rosnay, Guy Bourdin & Alex Chatelain
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