A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi’s romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits.

Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knapp led him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he first encountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when he became an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him the photographer’s craft.

Based in Paris for more than thirty years, Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film to capture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability and romanticism. Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated colour, he collaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels and designers, and has shot for many leading fashion magazines and international ad campaigns.

About the Author:

Chiara Bardelli Nonino is the features director at Harper's Bazaar Italia. She has collaborated, among others, with FoamMagazine, Aperture, the British Journal of Photography, PhMuseum, The Photocaptionist, Flash Art Italia, Looking on, Canon Student Development Program, Metronom Gallery, Red Hook Labs, Marsèll Paradise, and Creative Review.

This is the story in pictures of a dimension of living that differs from every other. While there have been attempts to create a philosophy of interior design, there has rarely been an effort to discover the soul of furniture and objects. That is what Paolo Roversi has tried to do with his camera in these pages, which are devoted to Poliform, the Italian company that has successfully transformed ancient Italian artisanal traditions into contemporary furniture. By using what have always been his raw materials time, light, space Roversi leads us on a photographic journey to the middle of the Poliform universe, helping us to relive the company s story and capture the mysterious, unmistakable soul that makes the surfaces and volumes of its objects vibrate.

About the Authors:

Paolo Roversi is a contemporary Italian fashion photographer. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Pace MacGill Gallery in New York, James Gallery in Moscow, and Comme des Garcons in Tokyo, among others. Chiara Bardelli Nonino is the photo editor of Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue. She is the curator of the Photo Vogue Festival, for which she curated and produced the exhibitions The Female Gaze, Fashion and Politics in Vogue Italia, All That Man Is--Fashion and Masculinity Now, and Italian Panorama.

A stunning visual tribute to Italian photographer Paolo Roversi’s celebrated images for the house of Dior.

A fashion house beloved for designs evoking modern Parisian elegance. A photographer renowned for hauntingly delicate portraits. This definitive volume, Dior Images: Paolo Roversi, is an ode to their legendary rapport.

Presenting photographs from British Vogue, Vogue Paris, and W, this tome spotlights creations by Dior’s artistic directors Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri. It also contains exclusive pictures from a photoshoot supervised by Grace Coddington featuring designs by Christian Dior himself. Equal parts fashion monograph and photographic portfolio, this exquisite volume will enthral photography, style, and art lovers.

About the Authors:

Paolo Roversi is a fashion photography luminary who has collaborated with top brands and publications on advertisements and editorials. He lives in Paris. Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher who specializes in analyzing the status and power of images, especially in fashion.