GUY BOURDIN: IN BETWEEN

Guy Bourdin's fashion photography placed him at the vanguard of fashionphotography in the second half of the twentieth century; today he is hailedas one of the finest fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Fromhis first provocative editorial feature in 1955, which pictured hautecouture alongside butchered cow heads, Bourdin pushed fashion photographyinto then-uncharted territory with his volatile mixture of violence, sexand surrealism. In Between delves into Bourdin's career, charting thecourse of his artistic development from the 1950s to the 1980s via over 200superbly printed black-and-white and color images. It also reassembles manyoriginal editorial layouts as they were first published, in magazines suchas French Vogue, British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, offering a new criticalcontexts for approaching his work-for Bourdin tailored his compositions tothe constraints of the printed page, both conceptually and graphically, andthe mirror motif famously central to his work finds its formal counterpartin the magazine spread. In Between was conceived and edited by ShellyVerthime, whose unflagging devotion and research have resulted in anunprecedented familiarity with the photographer's oeuvre, and is the secondpublication in Steidldangin's Guy Bourdin library (A Message For You,published in 2006, explored the author's collaboration with model and museNicolle Meyer). This book celebrates a talent whose posthumous famecontinues to grow and grow.