Peter Lindbergh has a wonderful quote attributed to him in a german documentary - "every day I fall in love with a new women, and every night, I go home to my wife' - models loved working with Peter, he made them feel safe & respected and is (sadly) one of the VERY few superstar fashion photographers who remained a consummate professional throughout his career. One of my all time favourites & never have we needed his 'no retouching, true beauty' more than today. RIP.
He seems to be capturing moments of profound self-reflection. The models are fully present in the moment. Their eyes communicate the feeling of being in resonance, saying, "I am alive. This is happening now." The images are timeless because authentic experience is timeless, and that's what I feel I'm witnessing when I look at them.
Beautifully and astutely said. I understand that feeling of being hyper-aware of the present moment, but never knew if others felt the same at times. I love your comment.
I'm no photographer and I'm not interested in fashion, but this is an utterly fascinating presentation of an artist and his work. Thank you for introducing me to Lindbergh. Subscribed.
Peter Lindbergh is the photographer we grew up with as todays fashion and beauty photographers. Often imitated, never surpassed. I’m in this business for 35 years or so, and I’ve seen all these trends come and go. Fortunately, today, there’s an increasing number of brands and magazines that look for a more natural, almost unedited, style with ‘real people’ in normal situations. Away from the loudmouth brand displays and extravaganza. It’s still small, but definitely growing. I love that style. There’s an ‘honesty’ in there that appeals to our need for real people with real emotions. True class never gets outdated…
Just to let you know how much I enjoy and appreciate your channel. Most of the channels out there are more about gear and technique and, for me, I love your themes of art appreciation and how to learn from the masters that have come before us. Your perspective and talent are unique and much needed.
Thank you Alex for an enlightening review of Peter Lindberg’s enduring work. Lindberg “style” was understated but powerful. He knew what he wanted to achieve with his photography & he was true to his particular “vision”.Great photographers work always seem to transcend time & remain, in fact, “timeless”.
I love the work of Peter Lindergh, when talking to newer photographer, Peter is one of the photographers I recommend, not just because I love his work but because his work has a freedom that many photographers (including myself) lack. Beyond that he looks like he is having fun and that is so often something that photographers forget.
Peter Lindbergh is hands down my favorite photographer of all time and I draw tons of inspiration from him. My passion is photographing horses and I’m always trying to capture the horses in the way he captured his models.
It doesn't matter what these people are dressed in or where they are - Peter captures their essence - all while creating a beautiful work of art. Black and white photography is my favorite style of photography.
Just visited the ‘untold stories' photographic exhibition by Peter Lindbergh, in Brussels. Wonderful cinematic black and white images, fantastic quality prints, everything about the exhibition is premium. Even the framing is beautifully done. The images are engaging, big and beautiful. There is also a wonderful ‘testament’ to Lindbergh on the top floor, with a series of self portraits and a video installation. All showing the gaze of the man that created these wonderful images. The whole exhibition is a masterclass of how to do things well. I loved it.
Thank you for not only introducing me to Lindbergh’s work, but for getting my mind to look at things differently. Your explanation that he achieved a candid, almost documentary style to fashion that revealed believable emotion was refreshing. It broke the spell of being disconnected from media. I remember at the time variations that revealed a more peaceful way of being. Taking this realism in a fashion context and blending it with industrial settings. Woah. I’m a fan of contrasts and dynamic range, tonal, textural, compositional, metaphorical. Thanks for continuing to share what you see. Till the next coffee!
We, as young ladies, poured over and studied every square inch of our monthly Vogues. Not only did we copy the looks, we aspired to be these models. Thank you for giving me a style template to work from. I was a fifteen year old who just lost her mom and style guru. Vogue saved me. Much thanks and love to all those that made this mag, esp back then, happen. This was not just a periodical to some.. it was our Bible ...and Lindbergh was a Michaelangelo. Thank you for your wisdom. I could listen to you all day. Peace love and light to you, yours, and all out there 🌺🌹🌺🌹🌺
I grew up in the 80s, reading my sisters' Vogues, and became obsessed with not only the images, but the names I saw in the credits: the sittings editors (stylist), hair and makeup artist, and of course the photographers. When I moved to NYC and began to work in fashion, how blessed was I to be on the sets of the greats--and Peter was most definitely one of the greats. Aside from being a visionary, he was one of the kindest and most gentle souls in fashion. Models LOVED working with him. He made them feel safe as well as fearless. If you love this, you have to find his film "Models". And you also have to see Peter's DKNY and Donna Karan ads...always timeless.
8:53 - as a photographer, while worshipping Lindbergh both for the striking images AND the great cultural impact, if I had a gun to my head and had to make a critical comment about his work, I would say - the fact the he was so good at creating expression and exuding strength, was very much a function of the models he worked with in those works of his that became iconic. That's why "there's nothing you can put your finger on" - the carefree, naturalistic style he pioneered worked so well because he was largely shooting forces of nature - extreme, fresh beauty, with larger-than-life characters - and while his side of the work was superb, there's a reason why people point at his works with Naomi, Linda, Christy as a reference for the strength of his works overall. Those same compositions, with other models, may have worked, or not. Or maybe they would've worked to pioneer the style, without achieving this godly status. We'll never know - but we should all be thankful the stars aligned so well and we got to see the synthesis of photographic greatness! Obviously, there are examples to bring as counterarguments to this line of reasoning. That triple portrait at 11:59 may just be one of the best constructed photos ever taken. Flawless. EDIT: also, his soft, "hyper-natural" light, in studio or location, was so clean and evocative, it's basically what people want to get when they're thinking "fashion editorial photography". And his black and white rode the line between flat greys and subject pop in a way nobody ever made to look as good. His printers and colorists are unsung heroes of his work, imho!
The models were not without makeup. The make up they had on would work beautifully with black-and-white photography. Black smudged eyeliner, darker eyes sort of slept in make-up look. That paired with the white shirts made it iconic. The make-up look became also iconic because every editorial wanted the 'raw', not overly pretty, slightly smudged look. This no make-up look was as lot of work and Lindbergh knew what he wanted and what looked good in his photos.
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Thanks to Peter for his insight and work and thanks to you Alex for seeing it and talking about it...
I love that the shots almost seem candid sometimes. They don't have "special effects". And, the lighting is so natural, even when very shadowy(a look I love BTW). I follow a photography I feel has a very similar style. His name is Peter Coulson from Australia. Wonderful look at a fabulous photographer's work! Have a great day.
Peter Coulson the studio photographer? Lindbergh nearly always shot outside in natural light much like a reportage style. I'm struggling to see any resemblance whatsoever.
@@jeremyfielding2333 Well, I guess I wasn't looking at it that way. I was looking at the use of BNW, the way the light falls on the subjects and the skin tone. But yes, Coulsen is a studio guy.
I'm glad you mentioned so many other noteworthy photographers in this video so that I - who love photographs but know absolutely nothing about it - can go and look up some of those photographers you mentioned! And I absolutely loved Peter Lindbergh's photographs too so will definitely check out a book or two of his! Thank you! 😍
I am not a people photographer, never mind models, but Lindberg's photographs have always struck me as perfect balance of showing the strength, beauty, cool, and class. Goes to show what little all these magazine editors, and art directors know about photography as an art of about people as a whole. All answers on a stamp please.
The word document comes to mind. I cannot define it but I can feel it. It is as if Lindbergh was selecting the liminal space between time, outside of time but containing all of it past and future. His images, IMO, perfectly combine memory and history because of the human element on which you touch. cheers and great vid.
Yes, I've always felt Peter Lindbergh's work transcends the fashion genre. I can't think of a more precise way to put it, at the moment, but I'd say that he must have a very warm personality because he manages to get candid and sincere expressions from people trained to pretend or to give a certain impression. Of course, his works are also self-portraits, in a sense, because his unique sensibility is felt on every image.
I've often thought that Lindbergh shot portraits that happened to be fashion... That superb book is also available in a smaller, paperback format for only around £20.
Thanks, Alex. Lindbergh makes the difficult, look effortless. This video has been a bit of a revelation! Looking at all these images, pushed together, makes me realise how much of an influence his work has been on me.
I absolutely loved watching this piece of work & I just drank in every single moment of it, having only recently found & subscribed I'm now hooked, will be taking another glug tomorrow
Comparing a fashion photographer to Lewis Hine and August Sander - well I didn't see that coming! Great insights as always. I'm most definitely not a fashion photographer and have very little interest in it, but Lingbergh's work is relevant to a much wider range of genres. That Taschen book looks like great value - looks like I'm going to be buying my first ever 'fashion' photography book. Oh, and this is unquestionably the best photography channel on You Tube.
In the Lindbergh documentary ("The Eye"), you get to see him working on a day long photoshoot, going to different locations and directing the models. He treats it almost like a private investigator in movie, spying on a couple as they move through a city. Really interesting, spontaneous stuff.
Literally just ( yesterday) ordered a ( 2nd hand ) copy of a book on George Hurrells Hollywood. It turned up today and while truly amazing many don't have the timeless look of Peter Lindbergh. Great video. Thank you for sharing
I incorporated an interpretive moment from Lindbergh in a recent, admittedly amateur, vid production- it had always stuck in my mind and when I saw it...
The fact that Peter's work is less easily identifiable as coming from a particular time period is true but fashion is always a reflection of a particular era and therefore a strong argument can be made that fashion photography should also be bound by the particular time period of the fashions of the day. In this way the photographers mentioned here are equally great.
Thank you so much Alex ... - Although thanking may not be the best word but this is where my eloquence fails me - Your channel is a treasure for who is seeking food-for-thought .. It intrigues my mind and stimulates the creativity by stretching it into different dimensions
Art ❤ Thank you for this video. I loved Lindbergh’s work. This was my first viewing & reaction was appreciation & love of the art. Not just photography- art. Beautiful art at that. 🥰
i never heard of many photographers, but I was in NY on holiday and went to the Guggenheim and there was a show of his work.....and came out totally energized to shoot shoot photos of people.
You know what Alex Kilbee back in the 90's I was so into Fashion, loved the editorials that were over the top with clothes, hair and makeup and because of that I didn't like the work of Peter Lindberg. However decades after the fact his images are timeless as you mentioned and I totally see them in a different way. Thank you Sir for all the great content you make!
Great post and interesting observations. Lindbergh was a unique talent whose work I've always admired (even more so when I became a commercial photographer--I have a signed print of the image @11:00) who really was just curious about what was going on inside these young, often very young, women. When that white-shirt shot was taken I was in NYC publishing (a photo editor at Rolling Stone Magazine). The editor of Vogue at the time was Grace Mirabella. She had been at Condé Nast for years and while very competent, she was not a visionary. Long story short, she was fired to bring in Anna Wintour who was the right person at the right time to turn around Vogue and hire new talent (editors/art directors/writers/photographers). And hat's off too to Derek Ungless (Vogue's creative director who I worked with when he was the creative director at Rolling Stone) for his vision in letting the talent create images that inspired them, not just inspired the advertisers.
There are several high fashion photographers that have produced timeless art in their photos they way Lindberg has. Ellen VonUnworth is one of them that comes to mind. We are so lucky to have had these amazing artists set the standard for their craft!
Please also reference Bruce Weber. Sante D'orazio - A Private View. The impression I get is that the subjects were absolutely comfortable in the presence of the photographer and the camera dissolved out of view.
Thanks for that. I've been lucky to work with Duffy and Bailly in my old art directing days and it was both a pleasure and an education. When taking up photography many years later its always a problem in just how one gets around their shots, especially as they define the moment.
Peter is brilliant def my fav fashion photographer but certainly you can recreate his vibe. B&W micro contrast lens. Use a 70-200 at 200! Mood is dark feels over cast moody. Beautiful people with very chiseled bone structure.
I’m 54 years old. As a teenager, I loved fashion, models and photography. I am astounded the way that the industry has gone to crap. There’s very little great photography and marketing for fashion anymore and women are like a whole Nother species.
Thanks. Now I have to buy this book and the Helmut Newton book. I don't like to talk about my work all that much-I mean, who the hell am I?- but this is what inspires me. Not how many layers of HD you applied or which 15 software programs you used but did Lewis Hine, August Sander, Helmut Newton, John Singer Sargent, or Andrew Wyeth sneak into your work and did the subject look comfortable in his/her own skin.
@@ThePhotographicEye This video deserves a creative study. I'm pulling together a model and studio to try to find my inner Lindergh, or more precisely, to find the inner, unvarnished, no-makeup essence of the subject.. I love that Lindbergh believes that beauty is interior and his goal is to dig deeply, which can be quite a radical experience for the model who is used to have to put on some sort of beautiful or bizarre exterior.
Wonderful presented Peter Lindbergh's work in your video! Some thoughts came into my mind, i'd like to share... You said that his photos often look as recently shot even when they are shot in the 80/90s. This let me think that it makes his photos somehow timeinvariant, which is the opposite of fashion. I think that often works as he photographed the models in "street photography" way ( urban / models natural environment, almost never smiling women...) And "street photography" is still in vogue ;-). It's fascinating how he combines fashion with iconic photographs. Thanks for sharing your content with us - it often triggers us to think more deeply about how to photograph our own pics.
brilliant analysis on lindbergh. he photographed women as women not as sex objects. he photographed men in the same way. as people. and by doing so he found beauty, depth and a humanity that the viewer can relate too. it is his genuine interest in character that separates him from almost every other fashion photographer. this and his pearly black and whites are timeless.
Lindbergh was not a fashion photographer/he was a street photographer interested in humans and their emotions/fashion industry wanted a rebirth and found it through him.a master of it's own
I love the feeling of Lindbergh’s photos. I’ve tried to convey to models what I’m looking for sometimes, but I can’t describe it. I need to collect Lindberghs and ask them to study them for a while, try to absorb that vibe, then shoot. It’s so hard to drop pretense and just be people. Thank you for this inspiration.
It'a not about telling the models that the feeling is supposed to be. It's about the photographer putting the models at ease enough to feel safe and free while being guided gently into that zone without knowing the photographer has been getting them there all along.
From observing Peter Lindbergh's photographs it appears that he tells stories with his cameras and models. That's what makes them interesting. They're not just models in clothing.
I do love all of those photos . I never thought about how fashion photos can show history like that . I love it . I find women beautiful to . Those models in the beginning … I always thought they looked that way due to make up ( perhaps they have it on in a way that looks natural or they are just that beautiful lol ) but if that’s no makeup , wow , they are stunning . Even women that don’t look all sculptural lol like the models , I see as beautiful. I’m an artist so I guess there’s an essence I can see in photos . These are just great !
This is a prime example of a great collaboration 12:52 Madonna inspired by her former dance teacher Martha Grahams " Lamentation" by Peter Lindbergh for Harper's Bazaar, May 1994 These pictures are sublime!
What's so good about looking at old art like this, is that you know it's real. What they shot is what was going on. Today everything is so easy to edit in post, compositing and faking everything, that psychologically we can never looks at new stuff with the same respect as the old stuff. It needs to be twice as good, to be as good. 8:35 BTW if you like Cate Blanchet, she just did a movie called TAR which was awesome and really shows her acting chops, while restoring my faith in movie makers of today knowing their craft.
Therefore - for all you said - I appreciate P.L. most: vivid, naturally looking, casually, humanly, very close to the models and the spectator as well. That's the way i like it more than any kind of reserved attitudinizing as almost all other fashion photographers do their job. Fine presentation, Alex, regards RR.
Always liked his work took fashion and tried to tell a story with it when Vogue rejected him I wonder who the fashion editor was at that time That was probably when Grace Mirabella was still there
When I returned to pick up my portfolio from Vogue in 1985, in perhaps my third unworthy attempt at catching their eye with my Newton inspired fashion photos, I was generously offered a few words from an assistant editor. She told me they look for an original non-fashion photographic vision, which they might find interesting meshing with their fashion needs. Lindbergh's work took his reportage style and with remarkably little sense of obligation to display fashion at all, managed to find favor in the fashion industry of his time. Deborah Turbeville might make an interesting subject, as her artistic vision is a great example of of what Vogue found to be of interest. As her former assistant, I know how she struggled to balance her artistic view of the world with the expectations of Vogue editors on location. She once turned to me and said, "Can you believe I have to photography this stuff?" If Lindbergh is any guide, perhaps she didn't.
The unifying theme for me is understated timeless elegance. Lindberghs work, unlike DeMarchelier, or LaChappelle’s or Avedon’s is dead serious and requires the clothes never “pop” and the beautiful models never look dumb.
I still have two Vogue Paris (Glamour) issues #762 and #763 and probably had every fashion mag on the rack for two years. The time during a three day fashion studio lighting workshop. Some photos I shot on expired 35mm Polaroid of one model I brought into her agency. They liked them. Pretty offbeat. If my classmates hadn't egged me on, I wouldn't have shot them.
Great episode but one thing that I disagree with is that Lindbergh and Avedon not only didn't learn from each other but ignore each other for years in the industry because of their approaches are so different. I remember Lindbergh talking about one instance in an interview. Also, the industrial theme was inspired by his interest in his home town at the time and German expressionist films.
As a photographer I learned a long time ago that it's all about whose idea the shoot was. I pitched one idea to a commercial contact, as I wanted their permission before I pitched the concept to the magazine that I had in mind. "No, I don't think that we're interested," said my contact, "but I'll mention it to the boss." Not thirty minutes later the contact called me back and very excitedly said, "Do you think that they'd use it on the front page?" Zero to a hundred in seconds. The thing was that from her perspective it wasn't MY idea anymore but her boss's! However, and more likely, it could have quietly died.
A great man and very charismatic. It's interesting also how many rolls of film he would shoot on a set......hundreds probably. Nikon always with a motor drive on fast. Remember these images were picked out of hundreds of similar. He also never threw any image away, somewhere there must be a big warehouse full of his contact sheets.
Sanders' influence on Lindbergh is evident. Sanders unified German society through difference and Lindbergh nailed that concept accurately by subveriting its polarity in socially and aesthetically. What he documented was a shift in perception and behaviour of women. He was (and still is) a visual one off. In regard to the work Hine, he perhaps felt the sense of dignity that the former delivered in his photographs of the vulnerable and, at that time of these shots, models were pretty much beautiful dolls but modelling ws not really a job per se> A little bit like childrens on the mills: they worked but had no rights like adult workers. Im glad that you spotted that.
Check out this video about another amazing fashion photographer - Vincent Peters. ruclips.net/video/5m8z2PtkqaQ/видео.html
Peter Lindbergh has a wonderful quote attributed to him in a german documentary - "every day I fall in love with a new women, and every night, I go home to my wife' - models loved working with Peter, he made them feel safe & respected and is (sadly) one of the VERY few superstar fashion photographers who remained a consummate professional throughout his career. One of my all time favourites & never have we needed his 'no retouching, true beauty' more than today. RIP.
He seems to be capturing moments of profound self-reflection. The models are fully present in the moment. Their eyes communicate the feeling of being in resonance, saying, "I am alive. This is happening now." The images are timeless because authentic experience is timeless, and that's what I feel I'm witnessing when I look at them.
Beautifully and astutely said. I understand that feeling of being hyper-aware of the present moment, but never knew if others felt the same at times. I love your comment.
I'm no photographer and I'm not interested in fashion, but this is an utterly fascinating presentation of an artist and his work. Thank you for introducing me to Lindbergh. Subscribed.
So did I!!
Peter Lindbergh is the photographer we grew up with as todays fashion and beauty photographers. Often imitated, never surpassed. I’m in this business for 35 years or so, and I’ve seen all these trends come and go. Fortunately, today, there’s an increasing number of brands and magazines that look for a more natural, almost unedited, style with ‘real people’ in normal situations. Away from the loudmouth brand displays and extravaganza. It’s still small, but definitely growing. I love that style. There’s an ‘honesty’ in there that appeals to our need for real people with real emotions. True class never gets outdated…
Just to let you know how much I enjoy and appreciate your channel. Most of the channels out there are more about gear and technique and, for me, I love your themes of art appreciation and how to learn from the masters that have come before us. Your perspective and talent are unique and much needed.
Thank you Alex for an enlightening review of Peter Lindberg’s enduring work. Lindberg “style” was understated but powerful. He knew what he wanted to achieve with his photography & he was true to his particular “vision”.Great photographers work always seem to transcend time & remain, in fact, “timeless”.
I love the work of Peter Lindergh, when talking to newer photographer, Peter is one of the photographers I recommend, not just because I love his work but because his work has a freedom that many photographers (including myself) lack. Beyond that he looks like he is having fun and that is so often something that photographers forget.
Peter Lindbergh is hands down my favorite photographer of all time and I draw tons of inspiration from him. My passion is photographing horses and I’m always trying to capture the horses in the way he captured his models.
It doesn't matter what these people are dressed in or where they are - Peter captures their essence - all while creating a beautiful work of art. Black and white photography is my favorite style of photography.
Just visited the ‘untold stories' photographic exhibition by Peter Lindbergh, in Brussels. Wonderful cinematic black and white images, fantastic quality prints, everything about the exhibition is premium. Even the framing is beautifully done.
The images are engaging, big and beautiful. There is also a wonderful ‘testament’ to Lindbergh on the top floor, with a series of self portraits and a video installation. All showing the gaze of the man that created these wonderful images.
The whole exhibition is a masterclass of how to do things well. I loved it.
Thank you for not only introducing me to Lindbergh’s work, but for getting my mind to look at things differently.
Your explanation that he achieved a candid, almost documentary style to fashion that revealed believable emotion was refreshing. It broke the spell of being disconnected from media. I remember at the time variations that revealed a more peaceful way of being.
Taking this realism in a fashion context and blending it with industrial settings. Woah. I’m a fan of contrasts and dynamic range, tonal, textural, compositional, metaphorical.
Thanks for continuing to share what you see. Till the next coffee!
Thanks for watching
We, as young ladies, poured over and studied every square inch of our monthly Vogues. Not only did we copy the looks, we aspired to be these models. Thank you for giving me a style template to work from. I was a fifteen year old who just lost her mom and style guru. Vogue saved me. Much thanks and love to all those that made this mag, esp back then, happen. This was not just a periodical to some.. it was our Bible ...and Lindbergh was a Michaelangelo. Thank you for your wisdom. I could listen to you all day. Peace love and light to you, yours, and all out there 🌺🌹🌺🌹🌺
Thank you, Sacha, for the beautiful memory.
I grew up in the 80s, reading my sisters' Vogues, and became obsessed with not only the images, but the names I saw in the credits: the sittings editors (stylist), hair and makeup artist, and of course the photographers. When I moved to NYC and began to work in fashion, how blessed was I to be on the sets of the greats--and Peter was most definitely one of the greats. Aside from being a visionary, he was one of the kindest and most gentle souls in fashion. Models LOVED working with him. He made them feel safe as well as fearless. If you love this, you have to find his film "Models". And you also have to see Peter's DKNY and Donna Karan ads...always timeless.
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8:53 - as a photographer, while worshipping Lindbergh both for the striking images AND the great cultural impact, if I had a gun to my head and had to make a critical comment about his work, I would say - the fact the he was so good at creating expression and exuding strength, was very much a function of the models he worked with in those works of his that became iconic. That's why "there's nothing you can put your finger on" - the carefree, naturalistic style he pioneered worked so well because he was largely shooting forces of nature - extreme, fresh beauty, with larger-than-life characters - and while his side of the work was superb, there's a reason why people point at his works with Naomi, Linda, Christy as a reference for the strength of his works overall. Those same compositions, with other models, may have worked, or not. Or maybe they would've worked to pioneer the style, without achieving this godly status. We'll never know - but we should all be thankful the stars aligned so well and we got to see the synthesis of photographic greatness! Obviously, there are examples to bring as counterarguments to this line of reasoning. That triple portrait at 11:59 may just be one of the best constructed photos ever taken. Flawless.
EDIT: also, his soft, "hyper-natural" light, in studio or location, was so clean and evocative, it's basically what people want to get when they're thinking "fashion editorial photography". And his black and white rode the line between flat greys and subject pop in a way nobody ever made to look as good. His printers and colorists are unsung heroes of his work, imho!
The models were not without makeup. The make up they had on would work beautifully with black-and-white photography. Black smudged eyeliner, darker eyes sort of slept in make-up look. That paired with the white shirts made it iconic. The make-up look became also iconic because every editorial wanted the 'raw', not overly pretty, slightly smudged look. This no make-up look was as lot of work and Lindbergh knew what he wanted and what looked good in his photos.
Thanks to Peter for his insight and work and thanks to you Alex for seeing it and talking about it...
Thank you for watching
Learning from what has gone before and integrating with your own vision is how any art form moves forward. Love Lindbergs work ❤ Bravo!
I love that the shots almost seem candid sometimes. They don't have "special effects". And, the lighting is so natural, even when very shadowy(a look I love BTW). I follow a photography I feel has a very similar style. His name is Peter Coulson from Australia. Wonderful look at a fabulous photographer's work! Have a great day.
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Peter Coulson the studio photographer? Lindbergh nearly always shot outside in natural light much like a reportage style. I'm struggling to see any resemblance whatsoever.
@@jeremyfielding2333 Well, I guess I wasn't looking at it that way. I was looking at the use of BNW, the way the light falls on the subjects and the skin tone. But yes, Coulsen is a studio guy.
These are the most enjoyable lectures I have ever attended.
his black & white quality is so lovely and consistent on film & digital ... elegant... soft but with some black shadow for edge. Both.
Hi Alex i grew up in the 1980's and i think that was the best Era for fashion. Loved the look of the models back then. Nice video thanks.
Thank you
I'm glad you mentioned so many other noteworthy photographers in this video so that I - who love photographs but know absolutely nothing about it - can go and look up some of those photographers you mentioned! And I absolutely loved Peter Lindbergh's photographs too so will definitely check out a book or two of his! Thank you! 😍
Thanks for watching
I am not a people photographer, never mind models, but Lindberg's photographs have always struck me as perfect balance of showing the strength, beauty, cool, and class. Goes to show what little all these magazine editors, and art directors know about photography as an art of about people as a whole. All answers on a stamp please.
The word document comes to mind. I cannot define it but I can feel it. It is as if Lindbergh was selecting the liminal space between time, outside of time but containing all of it past and future. His images, IMO, perfectly combine memory and history because of the human element on which you touch. cheers and great vid.
Thank you
Thanks for the video, Alex. Another photographer whose work I had seen many times before but never realized it was him.
Yes, I've always felt Peter Lindbergh's work transcends the fashion genre. I can't think of a more precise way to put it, at the moment, but I'd say that he must have a very warm personality because he manages to get candid and sincere expressions from people trained to pretend or to give a certain impression. Of course, his works are also self-portraits, in a sense, because his unique sensibility is felt on every image.
I've often thought that Lindbergh shot portraits that happened to be fashion...
That superb book is also available in a smaller, paperback format for only around £20.
This is a great video Alex! I've now got another photo book on order 😅
Thanks, Alex. Lindbergh makes the difficult, look effortless. This video has been a bit of a revelation! Looking at all these images, pushed together, makes me realise how much of an influence his work has been on me.
I absolutely loved watching this piece of work & I just drank in every single moment of it, having only recently found & subscribed I'm now hooked, will be taking another glug tomorrow
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for expanding our culture a bit by exposing us to these masters. All your videos are deeply inspiring.
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Wonderfully inspiring video about Peter Lindbergs work. An outstanding legacy for the world. Thank you immensely😊
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Comparing a fashion photographer to Lewis Hine and August Sander - well I didn't see that coming! Great insights as always. I'm most definitely not a fashion photographer and have very little interest in it, but Lingbergh's work is relevant to a much wider range of genres. That Taschen book looks like great value - looks like I'm going to be buying my first ever 'fashion' photography book. Oh, and this is unquestionably the best photography channel on You Tube.
Great video! Reminded me of why I started photographing 25 years ago...life really does get in the way
In the Lindbergh documentary ("The Eye"), you get to see him working on a day long photoshoot, going to different locations and directing the models. He treats it almost like a private investigator in movie, spying on a couple as they move through a city. Really interesting, spontaneous stuff.
Peter Lindbergh was an artist ... the pics are more than images, it's provocative, inspiring, a story in itself...beautiful
Literally just ( yesterday) ordered a ( 2nd hand ) copy of a book on George Hurrells Hollywood. It turned up today and while truly amazing many don't have the timeless look of Peter Lindbergh. Great video. Thank you for sharing
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Well that was the best 13 min I have had in a bit. Thanks heading into the weekend inspired!
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I incorporated an interpretive moment from Lindbergh in a recent, admittedly amateur, vid production- it had always stuck in my mind and when I saw it...
The fact that Peter's work is less easily identifiable as coming from a particular time period is true but fashion is always a reflection of a particular era and therefore a strong argument can be made that fashion photography should also be bound by the particular time period of the fashions of the day. In this way the photographers mentioned here are equally great.
Being from a region that wasn’t exposed much to photographers & their work, I find such episodes very valuable. Thank you
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Thank you so much Alex ...
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Although thanking may not be the best word but this is where my eloquence fails me
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Your channel is a treasure for who is seeking food-for-thought .. It intrigues my mind and stimulates the creativity by stretching it into different dimensions
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I'm so happy to have found your channel, very well done.
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Yes, I love his work. Thanks for sharing this Alex.
Thank you for presenting Mr Lindberg’s photographs. They are certainly beautiful
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I've watched h as many documentaries as I can on Peter lindberg he's utterly fascinating love his work , thank you for his presentation
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Art ❤ Thank you for this video. I loved Lindbergh’s work. This was my first viewing & reaction was appreciation & love of the art. Not just photography- art. Beautiful art at that. 🥰
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i never heard of many photographers, but I was in NY on holiday and went to the Guggenheim and there was a show of his work.....and came out totally energized to shoot shoot photos of people.
You know what Alex Kilbee back in the 90's I was so into Fashion, loved the editorials that were over the top with clothes, hair and makeup and because of that I didn't like the work of Peter Lindberg. However decades after the fact his images are timeless as you mentioned and I totally see them in a different way. Thank you Sir for all the great content you make!
The models look like they aren't modeling. Man I love his work. Wonderful presentation - thank you for sharing.
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Great post and interesting observations. Lindbergh was a unique talent whose work I've always admired (even more so when I became a commercial photographer--I have a signed print of the image @11:00) who really was just curious about what was going on inside these young, often very young, women. When that white-shirt shot was taken I was in NYC publishing (a photo editor at Rolling Stone Magazine). The editor of Vogue at the time was Grace Mirabella. She had been at Condé Nast for years and while very competent, she was not a visionary. Long story short, she was fired to bring in Anna Wintour who was the right person at the right time to turn around Vogue and hire new talent (editors/art directors/writers/photographers). And hat's off too to Derek Ungless (Vogue's creative director who I worked with when he was the creative director at Rolling Stone) for his vision in letting the talent create images that inspired them, not just inspired the advertisers.
There are several high fashion photographers that have produced timeless art in their photos they way Lindberg has. Ellen VonUnworth is one of them that comes to mind. We are so lucky to have had these amazing artists set the standard for their craft!
Please also reference Bruce Weber. Sante D'orazio - A Private View. The impression I get is that the subjects were absolutely comfortable in the presence of the photographer and the camera dissolved out of view.
Great video as usual. I have so many books in my Amazon shopping basket now!
Thanks for that. I've been lucky to work with Duffy and Bailly in my old art directing days and it was both a pleasure and an education. When taking up photography many years later its always a problem in just how one gets around their shots, especially as they define the moment.
Peter is brilliant def my fav fashion photographer but certainly you can recreate his vibe. B&W micro contrast lens. Use a 70-200 at 200! Mood is dark feels over cast moody. Beautiful people with very chiseled bone structure.
I’m 54 years old. As a teenager, I loved fashion, models and photography. I am astounded the way that the industry has gone to crap. There’s very little great photography and marketing for fashion anymore and women are like a whole Nother species.
Thanks. Now I have to buy this book and the Helmut Newton book. I don't like to talk about my work all that much-I mean, who the hell am I?- but this is what inspires me. Not how many layers of HD you applied or which 15 software programs you used but did Lewis Hine, August Sander, Helmut Newton, John Singer Sargent, or Andrew Wyeth sneak into your work and did the subject look comfortable in his/her own skin.
I've seen some of the pictures when I was in art high school in the 90s but I never knew who did them or the thinking behind them. Great video.
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Great video! I just picked up the Taschen 40th anniversary edition of Lindbergh on Fashion, I’m totally in love with his monochrome work.
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@@ThePhotographicEye This video deserves a creative study. I'm pulling together a model and studio to try to find my inner Lindergh, or more precisely, to find the inner, unvarnished, no-makeup essence of the subject.. I love that Lindbergh believes that beauty is interior and his goal is to dig deeply, which can be quite a radical experience for the model who is used to have to put on some sort of beautiful or bizarre exterior.
One of the best! He is The One putting people he worked with, first...And then they gave him all he could absorb... in any way
Thank you so much for this video and for sharing your toughts
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Now that’s how you take brilliant photos 👏
Wonderful presented Peter Lindbergh's work in your video! Some thoughts came into my mind, i'd like to share... You said that his photos often look as recently shot even when they are shot in the 80/90s. This let me think that it makes his photos somehow timeinvariant, which is the opposite of fashion. I think that often works as he photographed the models in "street photography" way ( urban / models natural environment, almost never smiling women...) And "street photography" is still in vogue ;-). It's fascinating how he combines fashion with iconic photographs. Thanks for sharing your content with us - it often triggers us to think more deeply about how to photograph our own pics.
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brilliant analysis on lindbergh. he photographed women as women not as sex objects. he photographed men in the same way. as people. and by doing so he found beauty, depth and a humanity that the viewer can relate too. it is his genuine interest in character that separates him from almost every other fashion photographer. this and his pearly black and whites are timeless.
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Lindbergh was not a fashion photographer/he was a street photographer interested in humans and their emotions/fashion industry wanted a rebirth and found it through him.a master of it's own
Absolutely wonderful.. thanks for sharing 🙏🏽❤️
Very interesting and well documented video. Thank you! I love his style
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Brilliant video. Always inspiring. Thank you.
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I 💯 see what you've said about Peters photography and totally agree with you❤
Cool. I love the fashion photographers. Peter Lindbergh is amazing. I hope you do more of them. would you ever do Nina Garcia? or Anna Wintour?
Timeless. Perfection. PL 🙏🏻
I love the feeling of Lindbergh’s photos. I’ve tried to convey to models what I’m looking for sometimes, but I can’t describe it. I need to collect Lindberghs and ask them to study them for a while, try to absorb that vibe, then shoot. It’s so hard to drop pretense and just be people. Thank you for this inspiration.
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It'a not about telling the models that the feeling is supposed to be. It's about the photographer putting the models at ease enough to feel safe and free while being guided gently into that zone without knowing the photographer has been getting them there all along.
From observing Peter Lindbergh's photographs it appears that he tells stories with his cameras and models. That's what makes them interesting. They're not just models in clothing.
Insightful. Lindbergh was so skilled.
Peter Lindbergh is the reason why I turned to portrait photography. This video is a beautiful homage.
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I do love all of those photos . I never thought about how fashion photos can show history like that . I love it . I find women beautiful to . Those models in the beginning … I always thought they looked that way due to make up ( perhaps they have it on in a way that looks natural or they are just that beautiful lol ) but if that’s no makeup , wow , they are stunning .
Even women that don’t look all sculptural lol like the models , I see as beautiful. I’m an artist so I guess there’s an essence I can see in photos . These are just great !
This is a prime example of a great collaboration 12:52
Madonna inspired by her former dance teacher Martha Grahams " Lamentation" by Peter Lindbergh
for Harper's Bazaar, May 1994
These pictures are sublime!
What's so good about looking at old art like this, is that you know it's real. What they shot is what was going on. Today everything is so easy to edit in post, compositing and faking everything, that psychologically we can never looks at new stuff with the same respect as the old stuff. It needs to be twice as good, to be as good.
8:35 BTW if you like Cate Blanchet, she just did a movie called TAR which was awesome and really shows her acting chops, while restoring my faith in movie makers of today knowing their craft.
Therefore - for all you said - I appreciate P.L. most: vivid, naturally looking, casually, humanly, very close to the models and the spectator as well. That's the way i like it more than any kind of reserved attitudinizing as almost all other fashion photographers do their job. Fine presentation, Alex, regards RR.
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At 9:26, the influence perhaps of Egon Schiele.
These are my other favorites photographers... George Hurrell,
Patrick Demarchelier,
Sante D'Orazio,
Ellen Von Unwerth,
Melissa Rodwell,
Emily Soto
The photo at 7:15 is SO. COOL. What is it titled? How can I find it?
“Linda Evangelista, Michaela Berko, Kirsten Owen, Pont-à-Mousson, 1988”
Found it!
For anyone else who was wondering
Always liked his work took fashion and tried to tell a story with it
when Vogue rejected him I wonder who the fashion editor was at that time
That was probably when Grace Mirabella was still there
When I returned to pick up my portfolio from Vogue in 1985, in perhaps my third unworthy attempt at catching their eye with my Newton inspired fashion photos, I was generously offered a few words from an assistant editor. She told me they look for an original non-fashion photographic vision, which they might find interesting meshing with their fashion needs.
Lindbergh's work took his reportage style and with remarkably little sense of obligation to display fashion at all, managed to find favor in the fashion industry of his time. Deborah Turbeville might make an interesting subject, as her artistic vision is a great example of of what Vogue found to be of interest. As her former assistant, I know how she struggled to balance her artistic view of the world with the expectations of Vogue editors on location. She once turned to me and said, "Can you believe I have to photography this stuff?" If Lindbergh is any guide, perhaps she didn't.
The unifying theme for me is understated timeless elegance. Lindberghs work, unlike DeMarchelier, or LaChappelle’s or Avedon’s is dead serious and requires the clothes never “pop” and the beautiful models never look dumb.
So refreshing to see (again) photography that hasn't had the life retouched out of it
Really enjoyed this!
So glad!
I was so lucky to work with him beautiful
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That book is very affordable , new 18 quid and on its way. Thanks for another great video.
I still have two Vogue Paris (Glamour) issues #762 and #763 and probably had every fashion mag on the rack for two years. The time during a three day fashion studio lighting workshop. Some photos I shot on expired 35mm Polaroid of one model I brought into her agency. They liked them. Pretty offbeat. If my classmates hadn't egged me on, I wouldn't have shot them.
Great episode but one thing that I disagree with is that Lindbergh and Avedon not only didn't learn from each other but ignore each other for years in the industry because of their approaches are so different. I remember Lindbergh talking about one instance in an interview. Also, the industrial theme was inspired by his interest in his home town at the time and German expressionist films.
Incredibly inspiring!
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As a photographer I learned a long time ago that it's all about whose idea the shoot was. I pitched one idea to a commercial contact, as I wanted their permission before I pitched the concept to the magazine that I had in mind. "No, I don't think that we're interested," said my contact, "but I'll mention it to the boss." Not thirty minutes later the contact called me back and very excitedly said, "Do you think that they'd use it on the front page?" Zero to a hundred in seconds. The thing was that from her perspective it wasn't MY idea anymore but her boss's! However, and more likely, it could have quietly died.
A great man and very charismatic. It's interesting also how many rolls of film he would shoot on a set......hundreds probably. Nikon always with a motor drive on fast. Remember these images were picked out of hundreds of similar. He also never threw any image away, somewhere there must be a big warehouse full of his contact sheets.
Sanders' influence on Lindbergh is evident. Sanders unified German society through difference and Lindbergh nailed that concept accurately by subveriting its polarity in socially and aesthetically. What he documented was a shift in perception and behaviour of women. He was (and still is) a visual one off. In regard to the work Hine, he perhaps felt the sense of dignity that the former delivered in his photographs of the vulnerable and, at that time of these shots, models were pretty much beautiful dolls but modelling ws not really a job per se> A little bit like childrens on the mills: they worked but had no rights like adult workers. Im glad that you spotted that.
The machinery pictures reminded me of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and even more on Chaplin's Modern Times.