Meisel of the kid who lied to take pictures of big covers

to count Michael Benson and Jimmy Moffattphotography curator and representative steven meisel respectively, when little Meisel was only twelve years old, she was so obsessed with the models that appeared in the magazines that sometimes, missed class to photograph them on the streetknowing they will be in the studios of their hometown of New York. When she heard that her then idol Twiggy was coming to town for the first time, she and a friend called all the studios. pretending to work for photographer Richard Avedon in order to discover where the model will be and to be able to see it.

The twelve-year-old boy who does not know that he will dedicate himself to photography and thinks that his future will depend on illustration is now eight snapshots available from tomorrow explanation Meisel 93. A Year in Photos, It was introduced by the MOP Foundation at the Batería quayside by Inditex president Marta Ortega.

When Meisel and her team started working on this exhibition, the photographer understood that he didn’t want a retrospective. “I am not dead” Benson and Moffat reassured the media this morning that he told them when they came across the project, so after researching his work, they decided it would be best to focus on the year everything changed. 1993… It was. It is possible to understand his life and aftermath through more than a hundred portraits of Meisel, who personally participated in the photography selection of Meisel, who is said to be “everything is in his head” and that nothing is accidental in his photographs.

“In 1993 made 120 stories all year, this As if a musician had published forty records or an author published thirty novels.‘, Benson said. And although there was indeed a lot of work, Meisel at the time was also “a moment of sheer creativity and versatility.” They hang on the walls of old shipping containers, now silver — they were black at last year’s exhibition honoring Peter Lindbergh — images of muses as Linda EvangelistaShe became the first model to receive an expression of admiration from him when he asked her to show herself on camera as she wanted. Katharine HepburnMoreover carla bruniof the Naomi Campbell…with impossible moves, as Benson remembers, taught the models himself. Moffat also recalled getting combs or makeup brushes on set if needed to make the models look exactly like they had on their heads.

Of course, there are colorful images as well, but black and white and portraits dominate the exhibition, and as Benson and Moffat emphasized during their visit to the exhibition, this is the sought-after intent displayed by the people wearing the exhibition. They turned out to be the best possible before the target.

Source: Informacion

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