Guy Bourdin is my favorite fashion photographer.  His work is collected, revered and imitated all over the world.    His technical brilliance, sense of color and setting created beautifully creepy sexually charged images.   A hotdog never looked so good.
 

















1950 saw Bourdin have his first show of drawings and paintings at Galerie, Rue de la Bourgogne, Paris.   Soon after he was showing photographs in 1952 with an introduction by Man Ray.    His first fashion photographs were published in French Vogue in 1955.    The legend had found his forte.


 Bourdin's ad campaigns and creative collaboration with Charles Jourdan, which started in 1967 and ended in 1981, are some of the most iconic fashion advertising images in history.    Creating incredibly seductive imagery was Bourdin's legacy. His staged narratives and fine attention to detail created glamorous images with an undercurrent of danger and erotic pleasure.


In the 1970's Advertising campaigns for Claude Montana, Issey Miyake , Versace, Loewe, and Bloomingdales accompanied his fine art museum shows and editorial work.
























He shot for all the top fashion magazines including Italien and British Vogue, Vogue Homme and Harper's Bazaar.   Numerous advertising and photography awards followed including the Infinity Award presented by Annie Liebovitz from ICP in NY.


Sadly this photography genius died in Paris in 1991 at the age of 62.     
He will live on with his art and his images in my mind forever.
His fine art prints are available through Pace McGIll gallery.   Elton John owns twelve prints.  
His books are available at Amazon.com and Fine art bookstores all over the world.

Guy Bourdin website

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