A giant of modern fashion photography, Guy Bourdin lent his surrealist eye to the shoes and fashion of Charles Jourdan. He created compositions full of movement, color and sensuality, and this pioneering collaboration between designer and photographer continues to have a profound influence on modern fashion photography.
The late 1960s were one of the most dynamic periods in French fashion. And the union between Bourdin and Jourdan captured the spirit of the moment like no other creative partnership of the time. Jourdan, a polymath who was both couturier and shoe designer, took Bourdin under his wing, a true surrealist among the fashion photographers of the time, and engaged in a creative dialogue until Jourdan's death in 1976.
The coffee table book "Guy Bourdin for Charles Jourdan" presents 150 photographs by the master's hand, many never before published, full of the modernity and fetishism that made Jourdan's designs so desirable and Bourdin's mise-en-scènes so provocative. To draw attention to the width of a woman's feet and the gentle swell of her calves, the shod feet and lower leg of a mannequin are disassembled and transported to different contexts, the central figures in compositions that are at once erotic, humorous and often disturbing.
Provocative, fabulous, dramatic and full of intense color and saturation, their collaboration was as complete as has ever been achieved in the history of postwar fashion. This book presents that work in its entirety for the first time and provides insight into a true encounter between designer and photographer.
Specifications
Title: Guy Bourdin for Charles Jourdan
Publisher: Rizzoli
Size: 215 x 140 x 27 mm
Size: 216 pages
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780847833337
Appearance: Sept. 15
