Sølve Sundsbø - Photographer

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From wwd.com, posted by Flashbang on 02-23-2011 in the Costume Institute Gala 2011 : Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty thread:

THE MET SET: McQueen momentum is building: On Tuesday morning, organizers of “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” swooped into London’s Ritz hotel to offer more details about the upcoming exhibition devoted to the late designer’s work at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “McQueen showed us that clothing can be a form of art, that it has a purpose beyond wearability, and that it can be a way of conveying ideas and concepts,” said Andrew Bolton, who curated the show that will run from May 4 to July 31. “McQueen’s shows always challenged the viewer, and his work was always inspired, I think, by a search for love.”

Bolton spoke before an audience that included Britain’s First Lady Samantha Cameron, Stella McCartney, Shaun Leane, Philip Treacy and Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen. Susannah Frankel, fashion editor of The Independent, has written a biography of McQueen for the catalogue that will accompany the show, while the British fashion writer Tim Blanks interviewed Burton about her memories of McQueen’s design process and inspirations.

Sølve Sundsbø shot the photographs, and Leane reconditioned all of his original jewelry and silver pieces for the show. Bolton said that, thanks to McQueen’s colleagues, former colleagues and friends, he was able to secure almost all of the outfits he needed for the show.

“Only one continues to elude me: It’s a coat with three points. I have a softer version of the coat from McQueen’s MA show, but I can’t locate the more solid, structured one,” he said. “I’d love to find it.”

 

[VogueGirl8910]

UK Harper's Bazaar May 2011
"The Real McQueen"
Models: Kate Moss, Annabelle Neilson and Daphne Guinness
Photographer: Solve Sundsbo
Stylist: Jonathan Kaye


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[Darling_Myy]

magazine: Numéro #103 May 2009 (cover + editorial)
editorial: A Fleur De Peau
photographer: Sølve Sundsbø
styling: Franck Benhamou
model: Magdalena Frackowiak






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[agee]

Vogue Portugal May 2011
Photographer: Solve Sundsbo
Stylist: Katie Grand
Model: Caroline Brasch Nielsen



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Vogue via tarsha

VOGUE NIPPON APRIL 2011

Beauty of Extreme
by Solve Sundsbo
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The model is Model: Caroline Brasch Nielsen.

 

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Kate Moss by Sølve Sundsbø
Harper's Bazaar ( UK) May 2011

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[Anditgoeson]

I strongly disliked the recent LOVE work, and I've yet to come across someone that does!?!? I love pretty much everything he's done except that...

 

[agee]

^ It was not universally liked, but there were positive comments in the Love magazine thread.

 

[Wicked Halo]

I strongly disliked the recent LOVE work, and I've yet to come across someone that does!?!? I love pretty much everything he's done except that...

some of his work lately has been very plastic looking (for lack of a better expression)...don't care much for it too, he'd done stuff like that a few years ago but he seems to have gone back to it!

 

[Mirik]

Vogue Japan October 2009 ebook30.com

 

[tarsha]

W MAY 2011

Hip Hop
Britt Maren & Eliza Cummings by Sølve Sundsbø





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[tarsha]

VOGUE ITALIA MAY 2011

Vogue Beauty
by Sølve Sundsbø



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[VogueGirl8910]

V #68 Winter 2010
"Can't Stop the Muses"
Model: Iman
Photographer: Solve Sundsbo


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Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty

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More shots from Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty





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NYTimes.com article originally posted in the Costume Institute Gala 2011 : Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty thread:

An interesting piece about the photography of the exhibit catalog.

A Mannequin in Every Sense
By ERIC WILSON
Published: April 13, 2011

LITTLE more than a year ago, during a small posthumous presentation of the collection Alexander McQueen had been designing in the days just before he killed himself, Polina Kasina, one of his favorite models, appeared in a form-fitting coat made of thousands of gold-painted duck feathers, worn over a full white skirt embroidered with gold threads. It was the final look of what would be Mr. McQueen’s final show.

So, by all accounts, it was an emotional moment when Ms. Kasina wore that outfit once again, in December, at a photo shoot in the London studio of Solve Sundsbo. Mr. Sundsbo, a photographer known for a style of digitally manipulated imagery that could be described as a modern mannerism, had been asked to document the designs that will be in the McQueen retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an accompanying catalog, “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” ($45).

It was a rare opportunity for the museum to photograph the clothes it will exhibit on a live model because most of the collection belongs to the McQueen archives, rather than the Met’s Costume Institute, which prohibits a garment from ever being worn after its acquisition.

But you would hardly recognize Ms. Kasina in the images that appear in the finished book, which show the same pieces, seemingly photographed on a mannequin. At first glance, they look as if they had been composed in the traditional academic style of previous exhibition catalogs, one that suggests historically important clothing exists in an environment of perpetual sterility.

It is only when you recognize that the mannequin actually is Ms. Kasina, transformed through a combination of makeup, lighting and Photoshop, that the beauty of Mr. Sundsbo’s approach and its relevance to the work of Mr. McQueen begin to become apparent. “You are not certain whether it is real or fake,” said Andrew Bolton, the curator of the McQueen exhibition, which opens on May 4.

The rather difficult objective of the catalog was to illustrate a departed designer’s life in a way that was both editorially interesting (in the interest of the exhibition’s chief sponsor, the Alexander McQueen company) and academically sound (in the interest of the Costume Institute’s reputation). It is intended to be a reference book upon which future explorations of Mr. McQueen’s importance may be weighed, so it was important that its imagery convey the authority of the museum, not a fashion magazine.
At the same time, Mr. Bolton was intrigued by Mr. Sundsbo’s proposal to make models look like mannequins because it spoke to the blurring of boundaries — between good and evil, angels and demons, nature and technology, permanence and decay — that was a consistent theme of the McQueen collections. “The beauty of McQueen is that simultaneous feeling of awe and wonder mixed with fear and terror,” he said.

To create the images, Mr. Sundsbo photographed the collection on four models, including Ms. Kasina. Their bodies were coated with an alabaster acrylic paint, a new product from MAC cosmetics that, once dried, would not rub off on the clothes. Strings were tied around their wrists, waists and necks to suggest the joints where a mannequin’s parts would be assembled, details that were later emphasized with digital retouching during a laborious process that lasted more than two months.
In the final images, the models’ heads were replaced with featureless dummy heads or, in some cases, their heads were chopped off. The only evidence of their humanity is seen in the spaces where the paint, during the long shoots, began to chip off, a detail that Mr. Sundsbo found particularly appealing.

 

[Flashbang]

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[flyme2themoon]

US Harper's Bazaar June 2002
"Eye Candy"
Photographer: Sølve Sundsbø
Sittings Editor: Charlotte Stockdale
Makeup: Linda Cantello



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[agee]

Chanel Beauty F/W 11.12
Monika Jagaciak by Sølve Sundsbø


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[Mirik]

Vanity Fair Italy N.27 July 13, 2011 ebook30.com

 

[Mirik]

Vanity Fair Italy N.28 July 20, 2011 ebook30.com
edit: E poi, e poi
ph: Solve Sundsbo