Jeanloup Sieff Livres

"I have been searching for time past all my life." —Jeanloup Sieff In this unique monograph, Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) retraces in words and images the course of 40 years of photographs, encounters, and memories. Divided into four chapters, from the 50s to the 90s, the book brings together the major photographs of a creator who left his imprint on a generation with prolific work in the fields of fashion, landscape, advertising, and portrait photography. Sieff's art testifies to his tireless quest to capture the fleeting beauty of "temps perdu," or "time which cannot recur."

Nous fait partager par le texte et l'image quarante années de photographies, de rencontres et de souvenirs.

Jeanloup Sieff was the complete photographer. He was gifted in every arena of the medium: fashion and advertising, nude, reportage, portraits and landscape. Sieff claimed to be superficial and droll, without ever being very convincing, and left a rich collection of works created from the 1950s until the turn of the 21st century before his demise. He was a prodigiously productive artist and was often overtaken by the speed of the medium and his own success, normally short of the necessary time to delve into his archive. Hence many of the works published in this book have never been seen or previously published. With his characteristic sense of humour and light-hearted approach he wrote: "my pictures are little black and white pebbles that I dropped on my way to adulthood, meant for leading me back to my adolescence".

Modefotografie als Kunstwerk Der französische Starfotograf Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Bild-Künstler der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Mode- und Porträtaufnahmen von Catherine Deneuve, Mia Farrow, Alfred Hitchcock oder Aldous Huxley zählen zu den Ikonen der zeitgenössischen Fotografie. Kennzeichen seiner so melancholischen wie oftmals witzigen Bildsprache ist das verführerische Spiel mit Licht und Schatten. Das vorliegende Überblickswerk dokumentiert Arbeiten aus 40 Jahren Modefotografie für alle international bedeutenden Magazine wie 'Elle', 'Vogue', 'Harper’s Bazaar', begleitet von Essays von Philippe Garner, Patrick Mauriés, Franca Sozzani und Olivier Zahm.