With its Black-and-White photographs of the German photographer Peter Lindbergh revolutionized fashion photography – and helped numerous talents such as Claudia Schiffer or Kate Moss to the rise in the League of the Supermodels.
Peter Lindbergh came relatively late to photography. At the age of 27 he bought a camera to photograph the children of his brother. Lindbergh decided to make his Hobby into a career and completed a two-year apprenticeship with Hans Lux, a düsseldorf-based advertising photographer. After he was fond of as a young professional, first for the contrast between industrial architecture and nature idyll in the Ruhr area, turned to Lindbergh in the late 1970s, the fashion photography. On Tuesday, Peter Lindbergh died at the age of 74 years. “He leaves behind a great Void,” it says on his official Instagram Account.
In a roundabout way in the fashion circus
Shortly after his birth, on 23. November 1944, in Poland, was expelled his family. His Childhood and youth spent Lindbergh in Duisburg. He became a window decorator, studied at the Berlin College for visual arts Drawing and hitchhiked through Europe Finally, he could place in 1987, a fashion photo series in the magazine “star”. To this time, he put his civil surname Brodbeck, and took his artist name. Lindbergh received many orders from renowned international fashion magazines, including “Vogue”, “Vanity Fair”, and “Rolling Stone”, and within few years one of the most in-demand fashion photographers in the world. Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld – they all left their creations of Lindbergh scan.
Lindbergh’s breakthrough: A cover image for the British “Vogue”
Prior to Lindbergh’s lens: Campbell, Schiffer and Moss
No wonder, because with its Black-and-White images revolutionized Lindbergh, fashion photography is Second to none. In 1989 he photographed the Models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Tatjana Patitz for the Cover of British “Vogue” and wrote the title of the picture history of Photography. “I have always been bothered that women in fashion photography at the time, were nothing other than a clothes rack, I wanted to change that,” said Lindbergh, 2014 in an Interview with the “süddeutsche Zeitung”.
That he succeeded, show the photos, the Lindbergh shot since the end of the 1980s, numerous Models, and thus achieved any kind of breakthrough. Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss – they all increased by Lindbergh’s Work in the League of the Supermodels. One of his most famous images, a recording of the six Models Estelle Léfebure, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Christy Turlington in a simple, white men’s shirts on the beach of Malibu.
Peter Lindbergh 2017 at the opening of his exhibition “From Fashion to Reality” at the Kunsthalle Munich
From the fashion magazine to the Museum
The Dutch Museum Kunsthal in Rotterdam was dedicated to Lindbergh in 2016, a major retrospective under the title of “A Different History of Fashion” (dt. A history of fashion). A year later, over 200 works were on view in the Kunsthalle, Munich.
In the summer of 2019 Lindbergh has completed an order of the British “Vogue”: the Cover of the September issue shows 15 portraits of courageous, dedicated women – including the Swedish climate protection activist Greta Thunberg and the famous primatologist Jane Goodall.And so Lindbergh’s exceptional career, how it started four decades ago, ends, a Cover for the British “Vogue”.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsIcons of fashion photography
Even if you have never heard of Peter Lindbergh, his work you know with certainty. It ushered in a new era of fashion photography. His images of Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington mark the beginning of the Era of the Supermodels.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsModel Movie
Lindbergh’s trademarks are his Black-and-White images, with which he has promoted since the late 1970s, a new realism in photography. He left the Film inspired and played with the prototype of the vstarken, self-confident woman. His recordings helped to define the fashion industry give the ideal of beauty new.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsThe fight against the superficiality
Lindbergh takes his Position in society very seriously. In 2014, he said that it was his role as a fashion photographer is to reflect a specific social or human reality. In a later Interview, he clarified: “It should be the responsibility of the photographers of today: to free the women, to free everyone from the Terror of the youth and perfection.”
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsFor the stain
As a Photoshop-opponents of Lindbergh is the human face with all its blemishes. “How surreal today’s commercial Agenda, to retouch each character of life and experience is, Yes, even the personal truth of a face self?” he wondered in an Interview with Isabel Flower in the magazine “Art Forum”. Here in the picture: actress Julianne Moore.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsAgainst’s Elitism
Lindbergh is famous for his fashion in the Vogue and advertising campaigns for luxury designers such as Chanel. He makes no difference between his commercial and non-commercial images. The division of photography and so-called “art photography” feels the work he called a “dangerous kind of snobbery”.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsPhotographer with a sense of responsibility
“A fashion photographer should help define the image of the woman and of the man in your time, it should reflect a certain social and human reality,” said Peter Lindbergh, compared with the magazine “Art Forum”.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsFar more than fashion photography
The Kunsthal Rotterdam shows up to 12. February 2016, a retrospective of the German photographer Peter Lindbergh. The show is curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, builds the exhibition as a narrative. Among the exhibits are the unknown Work, notes, Storyboards, props, films, and prints are in the past. Here is a photography of the French electro Superstars Daft Punk.
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Peter Lindbergh’s VisionsThe book for the exhibition
To accompany the exhibition, which will tour to Rotterdam in other museums, published by the German publishing house TASCHEN is a book of 400 photographs by Peter Lindbergh. The accompanying text by curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot has worked intensively with Lindbergh’s biography and his work.