The Aesthetics of Boring Places in the Fashion Photography of Peter Lindbergh and Corinne Day

Ingeborg Thaanum Carlsen

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Seiten:: 71–79

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848881105_009

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The boundaries between different types of photography, such as art photography, mass-produced photography, and private photos, do not seem to exist for today’s photographers. At one and the same time, a particular type of photography can be both a work of art and a commercial product. Thus, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh (b. 1944), who has worked as a fashion photographer since the 1980s shows in his work evidence of his roots in art and art history. In his fashion photos, he has been inspired by what is now considered art, for instance the street photography of the 1920s and the 1930s—bringing to mind the work of Cartier- Bresson and Kertész. But what other influences can we discern? Apart from Lindbergh’s use of black and white photography, is it possible to see existentialist or other cultural or philosophical themes in his photos? If more complex cultural or psychological elements can be detected in Lindbergh’s fashion photos, what constitutes the relation between the fashion item (clothes, shoes, bag, etc.) and the non-fashion theme? Why do we assume that existentialism belongs to the latter category? Could Barthes’ concept of the punctum be applied to a fashion photo? Corinne Day (1962-2010, UK) is another photographer who worked in both fashion and art. Day utilized snapshot aesthetics in her fashion photography, and she photographed her friends from the fashion world in what we must assume were private moments, but then converted the photos into art projects. What (if any) part did the cultural themes of the 1990s play in Day’s fashion photography? Can any dimension of Day’s photography be considered as having acquired a lasting cultural impact? My chapter will treat these and similar questions through an analysis of fashion photographs as well as other artistic products by Lindbergh, Day and other contemporary photographers as, for instance, Juergen Teller (b. 1964, Germany).

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Exploring the Critical Issues of Beauty

ISBN:: 9781848881105

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 08 May 2012

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