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They're not your girls next door. Fashion and fetish in a female fantasyland

Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world‘s most delectable females in Fräulein. This celebration of our era’s sexiest female icons includes Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more.

Switching effortlessly between colour and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth‘s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. These images were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished.

First published in TASCHEN's limited collector's edition — now available in this popular hardcover edition!

"The great quality here is that the power belongs to the subject— any fantasy projected is ultimately her own. To be allowed a glimpse into her world feels like a privilege."
—The Independent, London

The photographer:

Ellen von Unwerth worked as a top fashion model for 10 years, before taking up the camera and becoming one of the world's most in-demand fashion photographers. Her editorial work has featured in countless magazines, including Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair and i-D, while her major advertising campaigns include Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, Guess, Diesel, and Chanel. In 1991 she was awarded first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography, and her work was featured in Archaeology of Elegance (2002) and Fashioning Fiction at MoMA/Queens (2004). Her many individual exhibitions include a one woman show at the Hamilton Gallery in London, and her photo-novella Revenge (2003) was accompanied by exhibitions in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Moscow and Beijing.

The author:

Ingrid Sischy is a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair. A former staff writer, photography and fashion critic at The New Yorker, she was editor in chief of Interview, 1989-2008. She has profiled Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Nicole Kidman, and Madonna, among many others.

Эллен фон Унверт. Девушка. Подарочное издание, лимитированная серия 1500 пронумерованных копий, каждая с автографом фотографа.

Эллен фон Унверт была супермоделью до того как стала фотографом, поэтому она знает секрет или парочку о съемках красивых девушек. Сейчас будучи одним из самых уникальных и успешных фэшн-фотографов, она отдает дань уважения красоте самых восхитительных девушек мира в новой книге Fräulein. Это герои светских хроник, знаменитости нашей эры сексуальности такие как Клаудиа Шиффер, Кейт Мосс, Ванесса Паради, Бритни Спирс, Ева Мендес, Линдсей Лохан, Дита фон Тиз, Адриана Лима, Карла Бруни, Эва Грин, Кристина Агилера, Моника Белуччи и многие другие. Настоящая изюминка для коллекционеров: переключаясь без напряжения между цветными и черно-белыми работы фон Унверт доставляют наслаждение сексуальной интригой, женственности, романтикой, фетишизмом, юмором в стиле китч, декадансом и абсолютной радостью жизни. Без одежды или в неглиже ее персонажи всегда из сказки. Несколько ярких фантазий: и некоторые думают, что мы подглядываем в секретную вселенную. Мода и фантазия еще никогда не были так очаровательны вместе. Все изображения были сделаны в последние 15 лет и многие из них опубликованы впервые.

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Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world‘s most delectable females in Fräulein. This celebration of our era’s sexiest female icons includes Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more.

An instant collector‘s item: Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth‘s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. These images were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished.

About the photographer:

Ellen von Unwerth worked as a top fashion model for 10 years, before taking up the camera and becoming one of the world's most in-demand fashion photographers. Her editorial work has featured in countless magazines, including Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair and i-D, while her major advertising campaigns include Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, Guess, Diesel, and Chanel. In 1991 she was awarded first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography, and her work was featured in Archaeology of Elegance (2002) and Fashioning Fiction at MoMA/Queens (2004). Her many individual exhibitions include a one woman show at the Hamilton Gallery in London, and her photo-novella Revenge (2003) was accompanied by exhibitions in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Moscow and Beijing.

Couples by model-turned-photographer Ellen von Unwerth is what she calls a “fast” book - loud, fun, splashy. Small-size and thick like a bible, it is a very personal and powerful collection of couples of all kinds. Short German text.

The photographer:

Ellen von Unwerth worked as a top fashion model for 10 years, before taking up the camera and becoming one of the world’s most in-demand fashion photographers. Her work has featured in countless magazines, including Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair, and i-D, while her advertising campaigns include Victoria’s Secret, Banana Republic, and Chanel. Von Unwerth’s TASCHEN books include Heimat, Fräulein, and The Story of Olga.

They’re not your girls next door. Fashion and fetish in a female fantasyland

Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world’s most delectable females in Fräulein. This celebration of our era’s sexiest female icons includes Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more.

Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth’s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. These images were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished.

The photographer:

Ellen von Unwerth worked as a top fashion model for 10 years, before taking up the camera and becoming one of the world’s most in-demand fashion photographers. Her work has featured in countless magazines, including Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair, and i-D, while her advertising campaigns include Victoria’s Secret, Banana Republic, and Chanel. Von Unwerth’s TASCHEN books include Heimat, Fräulein, and The Story of Olga.

Другие книги Ellen von Unwerth:

Ellen von Unwerth. Couples

Ellen von Unwerth, Fräulein

Ellen von Unwerth, Fraulein - XL

All the way to her toes. The grandmaster of beauty below the knee

Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grandmaster of leg and foot art. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things —trim calves, the arch of a foot, the well-made lines of toes and heels. He chose his models with these criteria in mind — and with the obsessiveness of a Zen artist spent his lifetime looking for the perfect leg. Batters started out publishing his photos himself, but from the late ’60s onwards the field was his, and he was the star house photographer of magazines such as Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake and Black Silk Stockings, to name but a few. This book pays homage to Batters’s great obsession with legs, feet, and toes.

Erotic Photographs by Sylvie Lancrenon

A hotel room in Havana, the midday heat, and a red bed. French movie star Emmanuelle Béart who came to fame as the “Belle Noiseuse”, and Elle photographer Lancrenon stage a serie of highly erotic and intoxicatingly feminine nudes: sweet, sexy, and stunning.

 88 duotone photographs

This lush volume presents a collection of startlingly erotic, black and white photographs by a man who is sure to emerge as a master of the medium. A model himself during the last several years, Jeff Marano has brought his own experience in front of the camera to bear to tease out the energy, vitality, and sensuality of these beautiful men. Shot using only natural light in a variety of settings-on the beach and poolside, in hotel rooms and on rooftops, on terraces and in the woods-Marano's pictures evoke old time Hollywood glamour while still allowing his subjects to retain an individuality and spontaneity rarely seen in contemporary erotic photography.

Jeff Marano's photography was inspired by his storied modeling career. He began shooting his collection in 1996 while still working as a model in Milan, Paris, and New York. In 2000 he left modeling to devote all his energies to photography. This is his first book.

* Lush presentation of startlingly erotic, black and white photographs by an emerging master
* Collection that evokes old time Hollywood glamour while allowing subjects to retain an individuality and sensuality rarely seen in erotic photography

88 duotone photographs

Published this season in a handsomely designed trade edition, Jeff Marano's startlingly erotic collection of photographs is also available in a beautifully produced slip-cased Collector's Edition. Shot using only natural light in a variety of settings-on the beach and poolside, in hotel rooms and on rooftops, on terraces and in the woods-Marano's pictures evoke old time Hollywood glamour while still allowing their subjects to retain an individuality and spontaneity rarely seen in contemporary erotic photography.

Jeff Marano's photography was inspired by his storied modeling career. He began shooting this collection in 1996 while still working as a model in Milan, Paris, and New York. In 2000, he left modeling to devote all of his energies to photography.

* This beautifully designed, slip-cased Collector's Edition is the ideal gift for fans of erotic photography
* Lush presentation evokes old-time Hollywood glamour while allowing subjects to retain an individuality rarely seen in erotic photography

Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Ever-bigger print runs of increasingly grotesque photos of women in every imaginable position have edged out emotion and reduced erotica to mere physical sex appeal. Only in the late 1970s did great men like Helmut Newton and Mapplethorpe come to the fore with high-quality art photography. As leading expert and collector of erotic art Alexandre Dupouy points out. In the past 40 years, most photographers captured women's bodies in sexually arousing positions, with only a handful of true artists trying to capture the erotic aura that women radiate. This book is a journey through a century of collector's photographs that set forth how our perception of woman has developed over time and how the erotic dimensions of modesty and tenderness find expression on celluloid. The author goes on to provide a tightly reasoned rationale that stakes out the hallmarks of a true French School of Erotic Art Photography. The models have a distinctly natural appeal that dates back to a time when there were no plastic surgeons around to reshape models before they faced the shutter. This alone makes each photo a sincerely emotional experience.

An erotic journey through an exceptional collection of early twentieth-century postcards, with some provocative short stories to raise the temperatureand the eyebrowsen route. In this seductive album of vintage erotica, stunning reproductions of postcards from 19.02.1937 pay homage to the great classic fantasies. All styles of fetishismfrom thigh-high boots to a particularly spectacular garter belt vie for the readers attention. The conquest of a demure secretary is played out in five scenes on a series of cards. Even the much-parodied French maid shows her saucy side, not to be outdone by a bevy of sassy dominatrices. Men with women, women with women, and various versions of the ménage à trois find their way between the sheets of this album. Four original racy tales from celebrated contemporary French authors accompany the postcards. Sexy and classy, Erotic French Postcards makes a beautiful and suggestive gift.

Manfred Baumann has created a marvelous fantasy world for us in Erotic Visions. Unlike his previous publication, Just Naked, where his work captured the beauty of nude models in a more artistic setting (black & white photos using art models) this collection of work presents a more glamorous perspective - where the models are all spectacularly sexy, well endowed physically, and adorned with perfect makeup and suggestive attire (when they're not fully nude). There are scenes involving girl-on-girl erotica as well as work that appears more editorial in nature but is still laced with a powerful sexual undercurrent.

There is no grand sense of cohesion to this work, other than the fantastic quality to Baumann's photography. But that was obviously not the intention. For as the title suggests, it's about erotic visions, or individual glimpses if you will, into a secret fantasy world where beauty reigns supreme and sexuality is the raison d'etre.

Erotic Visions features 200 photos in both color and black & white.

“Borquez nudes always look honest, authentic, and direct … There’s a spark when these women take off their clothes and show their sex appeal for him. There’s a fire when they recline on the sofa and look at us, aware of this voyeuristic moment full of sensual tension …

Fabio Borquez allows the women to be vamps and sweethearts, but most reveal the Marlene, the femme fatale, and not the innocent angel … He believes that photography is a game with the camera and its rules are written by the moment. A constantly changing moment.”

Manfred Zollner,
Assistant Editor-in-Chief Fotomagazin

„Borquez-Akte wirken immer ehrlich, authentisch und direkt… Es lodert, wenn diese Frauen die Kleider ablegen und für ihn Sex-Appeal zeigen. Es brennt, wenn sie auf dem Sofa liegen und uns entgegenblicken. Wissend um diesen voyeuristischen Moment voll sinnlicher Anspannung …

Fabio Borquez läßt die Frauen Vamp sein oder Mäuschen. Die meisten zeigen in diesem Augenblick mehr die Marlene, die Femme fatale, als den Unschuldsengel … Die Fotografie ist für ihn ein Spiel mit der Kamera, dessen Regeln der Augenblick schreibt. Und ständig ändert.“

Manfred Zollner,
Stellv. Chefredakteur Fotomagazin

Jean-Paul Four is celebrated for his magnificent nudes in black-and-white. He loves women and his photos show a clear fetishist tendency. Jean-Paul says he prefers working with non-professional models, as he feels they show greater emotional commitment. He must have some amazing friends, because his girls are all very beautiful and perfectly suit his style of outstandingly tasteful explicit photography.

Als Mode- und Werbefotograf entdeckte Jean-Paul Four die Ästhetik des nackten Frauenkörpers und ist inzwischen bekannt für seine außergewöhnliche, oft fetisch-orientiert s/w-Fotografie. Jean-Paul: „Ich bevorzuge jetzt mehr die Arbeit mit nicht-professionellen Models, weil ich fühle, daß sie mit einem tieferen emotionalen Engagement dabei sind.“ Er muß über einen erstaunlichen Freundeskreis verfügen, weil alle seine Modelle wunderschön sind und sich perfekt in seinen künstlerischen Stil einfügen, der von kraftvoller Erotik geprägt ist.