Guy Bourdin - Photographer

[BerlinRocks]

GUY BOURDIN, IN BETWEEN

A New Exhibition and Book Launch


New York, NY – FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy are pleased to present the opening of GUY BOURDIN, IN BETWEEN, a new exhibition featuring rare works by the late iconic French fashion photographer (1928 – 1991), on November 10, 2010 at the Payne Whitney Mansion, home to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. The show will be on display through December 10, 2010, and debuts in conjunction with the launch of IN BETWEEN¸ a book published by Steidldangin and edited by Shelly Verthime.

The exhibition will include over 30 exquisite reproduction prints of vintage black and white images, many of which have not been seen or shown outside of their original appearances in previous publications. Guy Bourdin’s first retrospective was staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, 2003 which presented a body of work that reaffirmed his visionary approach to color. With a striking and unique palette of hyper real colors he was able to create theatrical and dramatic mise en scene in the pre-digital era, and inaugurate a profoundly unique and intimate signature style.
This show offers viewers a new glimpse into Guy Bourdin’s surreal narrative that evolved throughout the artist’s career. While his pioneering work is traditionally celebrated for the intensity of his color images, this new exhibition highlights the little-known fact that half of his published fashion and commercial works were taken in black and white.
A painter all his life and autodidact, Guy Bourdin began his career with still and landscape black and white photographs (1950-1957) that were shot on the streets of Paris and Normandy, where he had spent much of his childhood. The early 1950s were the only years in Guy Bourdin’s life when he actively sought to exhibit his photographs and by the mid 1950s, his works had moved from gallery walls to the pages of magazines. However, his early abstract photographs had the same dramatic, graphic qualities that would later be seen in his fashion photographs, evidencing the fact that he was already a master of sophisticated visual sensibility even when he first began his career as a fashion photographer.
GUY BOURDIN, IN BETWEEN, is a pivotal book in the posthumous investigation and rediscovery of the true genius behind Guy Bourdin’s oeuvre. Including over 300 images, this publication articulates the editorial presence that was inherent to the artist’s work, and focuses on the double spread aspect of image composition as well as the dynamic juxtapositions of photographs reproduced as if for the first time.
This exhibition is kindly sponsored by William and Clémence von Mueffling.
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GUY BOURDIN, IN BETWEEN A new exhibition and a book launch
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10075
SUBWAY: 77th Street, Line 6
ADMISSION IS FREE
DATES: Nov 10th – Dec 10th, 2010 CLOSED
Mon – Fri 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Sat – Sun Closed

it is a bit late, but did anybody went to see that exhibit @ Institut Français in NY ?
When I like the work of cultural diplomacy ...

 

[KKnardi]

this tread just died, do you guys have more pictures ??

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris Covers (60's)

February 1966: Nicole de la Marge
September 1966: Kecia Nyman
September 1967: Nicole de la Marge
December 1969/January 1970: Louise Despointes & Unknown


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris Covers (70's)

November 1970: Donna Jordan
March 1973: Louise Despointes & Jean-Pierre Cassel


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[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue Covers

February 1970: Maudie James
October 1st, 169: Maudie James


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[justaguy]

US Vogue December 1986
Montana's Modern Edge
Photo Guy Bourdin
Model Lenita Okderfaldt
Hair Christophe Carita
Makeup Jose-Luis


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[justaguy]

US Vogue February 1976
Calvin Klein
Photo Guy Bourdin


My scan

 

[justaguy]

US Vogue March 1986
Emanuel Ungaro Parallèle S/S 86
Photo Guy Bourdin
Model Anouk Aimée


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris December 1968/January 1969
"De quoi rêver..."
Models: Children
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris December 1968/January 1969
"Comment avoir 10 ans de moins grace a la mer en plein hiver"
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


"Des cadeaux trés fous pour soi-même"
Model: Eva
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris September 1968
"Collections"
Models: Jane Hitchcock, Cynthia Korman & Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Alexander
Makeup: Charles



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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris April 1977
"La mode de fond"
Models: Kathy Quirk, Sofia Kukkonen & Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Valentin
Makeup: Jacques Clemente


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris May 1972
"Bulletin beauté"
Model: Tracy Weed
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris November 1972
"Une beauté liberée"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris October 1972
"Perfection du détail"
Models: Unknown
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[gilsa0870]

FRANCE. Paris. Vogue Shooting Collections. Photographer GUY BOURDIN (French) during a fashon shoot for the collections. 1972.
by David Hurn

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[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue October 15th, 1965
"Eye on Decoration"
Model: Phyllis Major
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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[Zeitgeist]

There's a Bourdin exhibition at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. They not only show his photographs, but also some of his paintings. His photographs are spectacular, but his paintings are really not good at all… surprising to see, as I read he himself regarded painting as superior to photography!

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris September 1972
"Collections 72-73 - Pierre Cardin"
Models: Susan Bottomly & Eija
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


"Soirissime soir"
Models: Eija & Susan Bottomly
Photographer: Guy Bourdin
Hair: Jean-Louis David


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[VogueGirl8910]

Vogue Paris September 1972
"De Vogue sur la beauté"
Model: Isabelle Weingarten
Photographer: Guy Bourdin


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