Guy Bourdin - Photographer

[travolta]

i just found some videos!

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/guy/guy_movies.html

 

[Estella*]

you know that you can see his films on showstudio?
(and have you noticed showstudio has a forum now?)

i was a punk before you were a punk

 

[kit]

He's supposed to have shot a wonderful campaign for Claude Montana , at the height of Montana's fame in the 80s .

Anyone with any pics for a poor Montana fan .

Incidentally , I was bought the Bourdin book for last Christmas .

Very expensive !!!

Nice surprise .

 

[sirjimbob]

The Meisel / Lachapelle of his day. :up::up:

 

[travolta]

i was a punk before you were a punk

you got me there.

 

[fugfashion]

http://guybourdin.org love his work

 

[d'morel]

Very cool!

He is so creative, Definatelly talented. With a very different vision to most
humans. You could say pretty sick... I don't know how i feel about his work,
Maybe shock.

 

[Joz_]

some more

definitely a major photographer, he influenced a lot of actual top-photog
...Could be Lachapelle, and the last one could have been influenced by Newton...

 

[AlmostFamous]

I love that last picture posted.

 

[Spacemiu]

He is amazing! One of the mos creative artists of modern times.

 

[mylilmike]

WOW! Great thread. I love his work. his website is pretty cool too.

 

[Honey~Blade]

Wow I actually like his work more than that of the legendary Newton.

 

[fredo]

anouk aimée par Bourdin

a french actress, I don't know if she is famous in other country.
Sorry if I write in french, but I'm not able to think in english (Pour les francophones donc, voici une image inhabituelle dans la production de Bourdin, où les images en noir et blanc semblent être peu nombreuses (je dis semblent, parce qu'on ne possède pas encore un catalogue complet d'une oeuvre qui est sans doute l'une des plus importante de son temps) et une image qui est pour moi une des plus érotiques qui soit : cette blancheur du visage et du cou affronté à la dentelle, ce genou exhibé qui appelle la main comme le genou de Claire chez Rohmer, cette jupe froissée que l'on a envie de relever... Bref, cette image me paraissait aussi érotique que lorsque je la vis la première fois, il y a vingt ans, aussi érotique que l'apparition d'Anouk en guépiere dans Lola de Jacques Demy... Quant aux photos en couleurs de Bourdin, ce n'est pas l'érotisme qui me paraît être important, mais simplement cette science de la couleur et de la lumière qui éclate lorsque l'on voit des grands formats (l'exposition au Jeu de Paume était, à cet égard, révélatrice), cette faculté de raconter une histoire et de pousser le spectateur à s'interroger sur l'avant et sur l'après de la photographie. Et c'est là aussi une chose que l'on retrouve dans la photo d'Anouk Aimée : la jupe a DEJA été froissée, la veste est déjà déboutonnée, comme dans le Verrou de Fragonard le lit où les deux amants vont s'ébattre est déjà froissé, bouleversé.)
J'arrête là mon délire, d'autres images de Bourdin bientôt.

 

[robot]

very nice pics

 

[scblonndie]

Prob the greatest shoe photographer ever (and than some!woot:

 

[Flicker]

I love Guy Bourdin! He's my favourite photographer.
I saw his exhibition at the V&A in London which was amazing,and did a project on him for my French. My favourite part of the exhibition was the short film of a girl swivelling on a chair, and the notes and ideas he'd scribbled in his notebook, in French and English, which were hung up.

His work is terrifically beautiful and macabre.

 

[fredo]

did someone knows his work before 1970?

 

[Zazie]

He is the GREATEST photographer ever.

 

[fredo]

He's the best for colour photo, I think (and I prove)

He is the GREATEST photographer ever.

 

[masquerade]

i didnt know his work before, but i love it. everything posted is amazing and interesting.