Milan
(Italy) – Three of the world's
most iconic supermodels, Claudia Schiffer, Eva Herzigova and
Naomi
Campbell have reunited this fall to star in a new line of fragrances for
a well-know Italian designer duo.
With George Michael's 90s video for hit song "Freedom" as soundtrack the three ladies were convinced by charismatic photographer
Mario Testino to pose completely nude, despite the fact that
it allegedly had
not been specified in their contracts.
The beauties took their place in customized bathrobes and shared the
frame alongside male models Fernando Fernandes, Noah Mills and Tyson
Ballou before stripping down to their barest and most seductive
essentials.
Vienna
(Austria) – After record
attendances at both its presentation in Berlin and Madrid,
Annie Leibovitz's exhibition "A Photographer's Life" will open next at
Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, Austria.
One of the most celebrated photographers of our time, Annie Leibovitz
(Connecticut, US, 1949) has been making powerful and emotional images
with a unique style of lighting and use of bold colors and poses for
more than 40 years. She has documented American life and popular culture
since the early 1970s, when she began photographing for Rolling Stone
magazine. She then worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue, creating a
legendary body of work.
"Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life" is a retrospective of her work
from the years 1990 to 2005. The exhibition, organized by the Brooklyn
Museum, encompasses over 200 photographs including work Leibovitz made
on assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close
friends.
Famed for her iconic portraits of public figures, marked by a close
collaboration between the photographer and the subject, Leibovitz has
photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the pregnant Demi Moore, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Nelson Mandela in Soweto, George W. Bush with members of
his Cabinet at the White House, William S. Burroughs in Kansas, and
Hillary Clinton, among others.
The assignment work also includes reportage from the siege of
Sarajevo in the early 1990s and a series of landscapes taken in the
American West and in the Jordanian desert.
In addition to her magazine work, Leibovitz has created prominent
international advertising campaigns for American Express, Gap, Givenchy,
and the Milk Board, to name a few.
Leibovitz is the recipient of many honors, including the rank of
Commandeur in the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and
the Barnard College Medal of Distinction. She was named a Living Legend
by the Library of Congress in 2000 and one of the thirty-five Innovators
of Our Time by Smithsonian magazine. In 2005 American Photo named her
the single most influential photographer at work today.
"Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005" will be on view from
October 30, 2009 through January 31, 2010.