| • “His images fused elegance with the everyday,
overlaid with a suggestion of violence and mystery, to the
pages of the world’s most sophisticated magazines,” said
Susan van Wyk, NGV’s Curator of Photography.
• Bourdin’s photographs remained within the
confines of fashion magazines and rarely appeared in the
few histories of fashion photography that were being published.
As a result there is a distinct gap between what has been
written and seen of his work.
• “What Guy Bourdin achieved through his work
was to reinvigorate the medium of fashion photography in
print. Ironically, his are photographs in which the products
are downplayed but our desire for them heightened.”
• “His place today is not only among the greats
of fashion photography, but also as a pioneer of a new kind
of image-making everywhere,” Ms van Wyk said.
• Bourdin’s world of morbid fantasies built
on sex, death, and exquisite shoes will be on display at
NGV International from 16 March – 6 June 2004.
• Guy Bourdin is presented by L’Oréal
Paris and the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival,
in association with Vogue Australia and Qantas. Admission
fees apply. |
