Denis Piel - Photographer

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Denis Piel – photographer, film maker

Denis Piel (Born: 1944. France, raised Australian) is a photographer and film director.

Piel started his career in Brisbane Australia in 1961 apprenticed to be a litho printer. In 1962 he started work as an assistant in commercial photography studio. In 1967 started his own studio shooting everything from portraits to industrial sites and then moved to Melbourne where he specialized in fashion shooting for magazines Pol and Vogue Australia before moving to Europe in the early seventies where he worked for Votre Beauté, Elle, Marie Claire and for the advertising division of French Vogue. He moved to America in the late 1970s when offered a contract by Alexander Liberman after seeing a shoot shot for the New York Times Magazine, to work primarily for Vogue and other Condé Nast publications. In addition to his fashion and beauty shoots he shot many portraits of actors/ actresses as well as artists, dancers for Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ as well as Rolling Stone. He has also worked as an advertising photographer with Revlon, Estée Lauder, Donna Karan and many other cosmetic and fashion houses. He won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987.

He was inspired to work as a film director after being asked to act as a technical advisor on the film Exposed by James Toback with Rudolf Nureyev and Nastassja Kinski with Ian McShane playing a fashion photographer. He subsequently enrolled at New York University where he undertook a two year part time course in writing and film directing. He opened his film company Jupiter Films in the mid 1980s and worked with Window Productions in Sydney Australia, Frog Film in France and PetersenNauman in Germany.
He produced and directed his first feature length documentary Love Is Blind in the early 1990s. Most recently he has concentrated on personal photography and film projects, Premier Oeil, PLATESCAPES, and nhis multi-faceted FACESCAPES which combine photography and film to look at the commonality between people.

Piel now lives in southwest France with his wife and son where he is an artist in residence at the PADIES Culture & Cultures Festival.

Flims and videos

Love is Blind (1993)
FACESCAPES Latitude43.53333 longitude 2.066666 (2005)
FACESCAPES PART 1"AGING"(2007)

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US Vogue January 1983
"What Really Works..."
Models: Andie MacDowell & Anette Stai
Photographer: Denis Piel


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US Vogue February 1983
Star Take: Joanna Pacula
Photo Denis Piel
Model Joanna Pacula
Hair Sam McKnight
Makeup Linda Cantello


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US Vogue January 1981
New York Style | Signals
Photo Denis Piel
Models Kelly Emberg, Beverly Johnson, Nancy DeWeir
Hair John Sahag
Makeup George Newell


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US Vogue September 1979
The New York Collections | American Style, N.Y. Bravo!
Photo Denis Piel
Models Esmé Marshall, Gia Carangi, Barbara Neumann, Nancy Donahue
Hair John Sahag
Makeup Alberto Fava


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US Vogue September 1981
The New York Collections | Evenings...the Most!
Photo Denis Piel
Models Nancy DeWier, Kelly Emberg, Carrie Nygren
Hair Stephane Lempire
Makeup Alberto Fava


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US Vogue October 1982
A World Apart Pt. 1
Photo Denis Piel
Editor Jade Hobson
Models Nancy Donahue, Joan Severance
Hair Julien
Makeup Alberto Fava


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US Vogue October 1982
A World Apart Pt. 2


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US Vogue September 1986
Casual Charm
Photo Denis Piel
Editor Jade Hobson
Model Charlotte Lewis
Hair John Sahag
Makeup Andrea Paoletti


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US Vogue October 1985
Beauty & Health | Modern Beauty...What's Perfect, What Counts
Photo Denis Piel
Models Lucy Cunningham, Christy Turlington, Clare Hoak
Hair Garren
Makeup Margret Avery


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US Vogue January 1983
What Really Works...Fashion/Beauty for Active Women
Photo Denis Piel
Models Wanakee Pugh, Anette Stai
Hair John Sahag
Makeup Linda Cantello


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US Vogue January 1983
Vogue Patterns | What Really Works
Photo Denis Piel
Models Wanakee Pugh, Anette Stai
Hair John Sahag
Makeup Linda Cantello


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US Vogue August 1983
Equal Terms: Donald Sutherland & Francine Racette
Photo Denis Piel
Models Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette


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US Vogue December 1987
Shades of Adventure... Pt. 1
Photo Denis Piel
Text Jan Morris
Models Rachel Williams, Christy Turlington
Hair Suga
Makeup Andrea Paoletti


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US Vogue December 1987
Shades of Adventure... Pt. 2


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US Vogue December 1987
Taking It Easy
Photo Denis Piel
Model Lara Naszinski
Hair Suga
Makeup Andrea Paoletti


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The New Knitting: Everything You Want Now
Photo Denis Piel, Alex Chatelain
Models Eva Voorhees, Shaun Casey, Beverly Johnson, Kim Charlton, Gia Carangi, Kelly Emberg, Melanie Cain, Geri Carranza
Hair John Sahag, Marc Pipino
Makeup Arnold Pipkin, Vincent Nasso


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US Vogue September 1983
The Best of American Style: A Real Change at Night
Photo Denis Piel
Models Andie MacDowell, Brooke Shields
Hair Garren
Makeup Linda Mason


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US Vogue September 1984
The New York Collections | American Style, Better...Than Ever! Pt. 2
Photo Denis Piel
Model Laetitia Firmin-Didot
Hair Ezel Mustafa
Makeup Margret Avery



Illustrator Ron Arney


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US Vogue September 1982
Beauty & Health | The Beauty Message, A Certain Finish
Photo Irving Penn, Denis Piel
Editor Andrea Quinn Robinson
Models Karina Gomez, Cindy Waite, Yanette, Jen, Isabella Rossellini, Terry Farrell
Hair & Makeup Rick Gillette


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