![]() ![]() “He found his style very quickly,” says Simon, his son, who opened up the photographer’s archives and became very involved in the exhibition, “because he wanted to be faithful to the human being he was.” As Peter Lindbergh himself said: “With black and white, you don’t try to make things prettier, make things chic or make things agreeable, no, black and white is authentic… The color stops on the surface. Peter Lindbergh is also identifiable by his use of black and white, a constant in his work decade after decade: soft and deep, the shades of gray are timeless, as if covered with patina. Many of the German photographer’s icons are to be found in the exhibition: the beautiful and the extraterrestrial on a dirt road in California (1990), the views of a factory in Nancy (1988), Amber Valletta with her angel wings in the streets of New York (1993), and many others memorable compositions. ![]() “He did not treat women as an object but the subject of his photographs,” notes Gilles Morat, artistic director of the Pavillon Populaire. By showing them move, blossom, and interact in front of the camera as a group of friends, Peter Lindbergh made them look like real people, like us. This was indeed the first generation of models to reach star status. ![]() Marie-Sophie Wilson, Tatiana Patitz © Peter Lindbergh. ![]()
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