‘Guy Bourdin Archive’, 1978
Guy Bourdin's 1978 archive work showcases his distinctive approach to color photography and visual composition. This piece exemplifies Bourdin's mastery of saturated colors and geometric arrangements that defined his influential career.
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- Sotheby's, New York, NY
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🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
May 13, 2021
Estimate: $15,000 to $20,000
Lot 39
Artists in conversation
Helmut Newton
German-Australian · b. 1920
Newton shared Bourdin's mastery of highly stylized, saturated color fashion photography with dramatic staged compositions and a provocative commercial aesthetic that defined the visual language of late 20th century fashion imagery.
Deborah Turbeville
American · b. 1932
Turbeville worked in the same era of conceptual fashion photography, creating richly colored and theatrically staged images for major publications that blurred the line between documentary and surrealist visual storytelling.
Chris von Wangenheim
German · b. 1942
Von Wangenheim produced bold, geometrically composed and vibrantly colored commercial fashion photographs in the 1970s that closely parallel Bourdin's saturated palette and his talent for transforming staged scenes into visually arresting cinematic narratives.
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