Work in Progress

by Karl Lagerfeld

Work in Progress is a survey of Karl Lagerfeld's photography, showcasing Lagerfeld's phenomenal range and versatility from his beginnings as a photographer in 1987 to his most recent work. This book is the long anticipated English version of the now sold-out Parcours de Travail which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris in 2010. Work in Progress shows Lagerfeld moving sleekly between genres such as portraiture, architecture and landscape, with the same restlessness with which he experiments with both rare and progressive photographic techniques including algraphy, serigraphy, resinotypes and sepia prints. Unchanging, however, is Lagerfeld's fascination with interpreting and reinventing the work of other artists and writers, be it Oskar Schlemmer, Fritz Lang, Lyonel Feininger or Alexej von Jawlensky, to name just a few. Work in Progress is testament to Lagerfeld's unparalleled photographic achievement to date as well as a promise that the best is still to come.



Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, 8 February 2011

Genres: Photography

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2011

About the author

Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, artist, photographer and caricaturist who lived in Paris. He was known as the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel (from 1983 until his death), as well as creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects.

Source: wikipedia

Reviews

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Quel magnifique ouvrage sur le travail photographique de monsieur Lagerfeld, montrant différentes séries qu'il a réalisé à travers les années, un condensé de ses livres dont des photographies que je viens à peine de découvrir. Un réel bonheur pour les yeux et l'âme. Même ses photo de nues n'ont aucun but d'être choquant, ni provocant, au contraire chacune de ses photographies deviennent éternelles et transcendent une beauté d'antan.

Un must have.

Bonsoir.