Hardcover
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Dimensions: 24,7 x 21 cm
pages: 192
€20.00
This monograph on the renowned French photographer celebrates Jean-François Lepage’s thoroughly unconventional approach to fashion photography, as well as his equally captivating drawings and deconstructed images. Jean-François Lepage is a photographer whose working methods are closer to those of a painter.
His paradoxically alluring and disquieting photographs bear evidence to a process in which he physically cuts, draws, and works into their surface to intricately evolve and strongly deconstruct the original image. Working not only as a fashion photographer, but also as a visual artist, he has creatively merged the two worlds, creating a beautiful, hitherto unpublished series of images.
Imbued with color, these photographs are at once dreamlike and disturbing, alienating and meditative, revealing the work of a celebrated artist who has never foundered from his quest to decontextualize fashion photography into something wholly original.
His paradoxically alluring and disquieting photographs bear evidence to a process in which he physically cuts, draws, and works into their surface to intricately evolve and strongly deconstruct the original image. Working not only as a fashion photographer, but also as a visual artist, he has creatively merged the two worlds, creating a beautiful, hitherto unpublished series of images.
Imbued with color, these photographs are at once dreamlike and disturbing, alienating and meditative, revealing the work of a celebrated artist who has never foundered from his quest to decontextualize fashion photography into something wholly original.