PETER LINDBERGH

Peter Lindbergh was considered the photographer of imperfections. Died at the age of 74, he produced a collection of images that changed the canons of fashion and female beauty.

Lindbergh described his inspiration thus: “I was rather uninspired with the way women were photographed in the 80's. I was trying to photograph them in a different way, but nobody seemed to care back then ... I wanted to move away from the rather formal, quite perfectly styled woman who was very artificial.
I was more concerned about a more outspoken, adventurous woman in control of her life and not too concerned about her social status or emancipated by masculine protection. My ideal was always the young women I met in art school, very independent and who could speak for themselves. The supermodels represented this change. It explains why they dominated the visual world for many years. "