Recommendations of the Editorial team
With “My Education” a band has been published that is devoted to the photographic work of Bruce Weber from several decades. You can see it immediately in the pictures. Whether Weber, 79, celebrities (Matt Dillon, Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss) or No Names photographed: family, body, closeness, sexuality, are the focus. They are not productions.
Fashion, portrait and time documents
Bruce Weber has shaped fashion magazines such as “Vogue”, “GQ”, “W Magazine” and “Vanity Fair” with his pictures. “My Education” is also devoted to these articles on fashion photography, supplemented by literary voices such as Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck and Rupert Brooke.
Bruce Weber: Life and Work
Bruce Weber became known in the early 1980s with recordings that combined classic image compositions with a sense of physicality. His work marks the transition between fashion and art photography. Weber’s style in celebrity photographs is characterized by a balance between staging and authenticity. Kate, Amy and Matt no longer looked like Celebristies, but people who look like Celebrities could.
How did Bruce Weber succeed? It prefers natural lighting conditions, reduces the visual backdrop to the essentials and creates closeness to the portrayed through reduced compositions. His recordings often show personalities in moments of calm, thoughtfulness or playful spontaneity. Beyond common poses.
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Bruce Weber. My Education
Hardcover, 24.3 x 35.5 cm, 3.34 kg, 564 pages
€ 125