Kate Moss by Mario Testino

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Art and scienceThe Spice Girls enjoy massive popular success with their first single Wannabe going straight to Number 1. Kate Moss, London, 2006' was released on the occasion of his major retrospective at the MFA in Boston, 2012.

Während sie mit den Werbekampagnen für Calvin Klein in den 90er Jahren schlagartig weltberühmt wurde, gab sie sich privat eher leger und understatig, was sie umso glaubwürdiger machte: Kate schlaksig, jung und erfahren wurde als Inbegriff einer neuen Ära der Coolness gefeiert. in London) war noch ein Teenager sie wurde mit vierzehn auf dem New Yorker JFK-Flughafen 'entdeckt' , als die ersten Photographien, die Corinne Day von ihr machte, in dem englischen Lifestyle-Magazin The Face erschienen.

With a four decades career as a leader in the fields of fashion, culture and lifestyle, Peruvian-born Mario Testino OBE has many facets that take him beyond the surface of a photographer and artist placing him as a cultural visionary.

Perched casually on a polished bathroom counter in a sheer, frothy black dress and a black mask pulled back and slightly askew, Kate seems caught unawares in the midst of some glamourous fête. Dieser Band ist eine sehr persönliche Retrospektive auf ihre beispiellose Entwicklung vom schüchternen Teenager zum Model zum Supermodel zur Ikone nacherzählt in über 300 Photographien, die Kate Moss selbst für dieses Buch ausgesucht und zusammengestellt hat. Photographed here in Los Angeles, Moss described working with Testino: ‘I have grown up with him photographing me - we have grown up together in a sense. Shortly after her first Galliano show I went backstage to congratulate her, only to find her crying: she was disappointed that she had only been given one outfit to model in the show.

Includes many previously unpublished photos from Testino's private archive; foreword by Testino and exclusive essay by Moss. This book is Mario’s personal homage to his greatest muse: a young girl that captured his heart and eye with her beauty, humour and spirit, and whose image in his photographs has captured imaginations the world over. The trust between us means that we are free with each other, he does not trap me into a set way of being, we find the picture together. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion.

He’d seen me in a pair of heels, getting glamorous – and he was the first to start taking pictures of me in that way. Im Lauf ihrer einzigartigen Karriere stand/lag/bewegte sich Kate Moss vor der Kamera jedes namhaften Modephotographen der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte darunter klingende Namen wie Mario Sorrenti, Arthur Elgort, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino und viele andere mehr. His solo exhibitions have shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is precisely this contrast between the apparently incidental and the impossibly glamorous which makes Testino's images continually fascinating. This book is the legendary photographer’s personal homage to his greatest muse: a young girl that captured his heart and eye with her beauty, humour and spirit, and whose image in his photographs has captured imaginations the world over.

Of the 100-plus images, many photographs have been chosen from Testino’s private archive and are published here for the first time. The group are remembered as much for their sassy, outspoken 'girl power' attitude and their continuing subsequent celebrity as for their music. Currently fully online and across worldwide art fairs we continue to bring the best in art, pop culture and collectibles.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Kate concludes, “People are really enthralled by Mario, when they meet him he’s so giving and generous with himself, it’s never just about him. After the bombing much of Manchester was rebuild and in 1998 it won a successful bid to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Mario Testino is recognised as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion.Kinmonth, Patrick, Mario Testino: Portraits, 2002 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 1 February to 4 June 2002), p.