Guy Bourdin

Part of the Phaidon 55s photography series.

 

An introduction to the groundbreaking work of Guy Bourdin (1928–91), a great innovator in the field of fashion photography. Bourdin’s high glamour and seductive, often surreal, work revolutionized the genre of fashion photography. The edition includes classic campaigns for Charles Jourdan and Dior, and his work for French Vogue as well as lesser-known and previously unpublished images, demonstrating his influence on commercial and fine art photography.


Phaidon 55s photography series introduces you to 9 masters of the medium. The men and women who invented, changed and revolutionized the language of everyday communication. Celebrating and acknowledging all styles and aspects of photography, each volume focuses on the life's work of an individual master and contains an informative introductory essay, a detailed chronology and 55 tappable-and-enlargeable key works accompanied by extended captions.

 

The Phaidon 55s photography series includes many of the world's most influential photographers - Guy Bourdin, Larry Fink, Gabriela Iturbide, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Daido Moriyama, Eadweard Muybridge and László Moholy-Nagy.