Guy Bourdin exhibition on Vogue TV

16 December 2008

Vogue TV interview with Charlie Scheips on Guy Bourdin.
Exhibition on View from November 2-24, 2007
at Phillips de Pury & Co, Victoria House Bloomsbury Square London WC1

During the 1950’s in an era when black and white photography was still the preferred medium in Europe, Guy Bourdin launched his career with fashion assignments for Vogue, Paris. While on the one hand employing formal elements of composition, Guy Bourdin sought to transcend the reality of the photographic medium with surreal twists to the apparent subject of his images and his unconventional manipulation of the picture plane.