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Black and white photography by the extraordinary Ellen Von Unwerth for her photo series The Story of Olga.
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This striking black-and-white photograph exemplifies Ellen von Unwerth's distinctive artistic style. The image shows a dramatic portrait of a model in a dark, intimate setting lit by candles. The Story of Olga transports the viewer into a fairy-tale, picturesque world full of desire and passion. The top model, Olga, is shown as a widow who indulges in unexpected fantasies after the death of her husband.
Dark red pouting lips, vibrant colors, and suggestive poses sweeten Ellen von Unwerth's work. Unwerth, who once started as a supermodel in front of the camera herself, has since developed into one of our most sought-after fine art photographers. Her oeuvre combines provocation and pleasure, immortalizing the supermodel elite, from Kate Moss to Claudia Schiffer, as well as the stars of the pop firmament, from Madonna to David Bowie. Her works have already achieved cult status and define the aesthetic vocabulary of our time.
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- Creator:Ellen von Unwerth (1954, German)
- Dimensions:Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Vienna, AT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU19315285722
Ellen von Unwerth
Ellen von Unwerth is a director and photographer whose bold and erotic images of women have left an indelible mark on the visual landscape of the fashion world.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, von Unwerth was a model in Paris for nearly a decade before turning to photography. Her 1989 images of Claudia Schiffer for a Guess jeans campaign, echoing the playfully feminine style of 1950s pinups, earned both Schiffer and von Unwerth wide attention. Over the years, her work has been featured regularly in magazines like Interview, Vanity Fair, Vogue, I-D and The Face, appearing on covers and in both editorial and commercial contexts. In 1991, she won first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography.
Von Unwerth’s 1995 photoshoot of Drew Barrymore for Playboy magazine is among her most popular work and, coupled with an array of album covers for such artists as Janet Jackson and Britney Spears, gave her standing as a celebrity photographer beyond the borders of the fashion world. Von Unwerth’s pictures have a distinctive look and feel, with saturated colors and dense compositions, while also, in certain cases, paying homage to great photographers of the 20th century.
The 2015 Tree of Love, Bavaria, in which a nude model reclines inside the heart-shaped hollow of an enormous decaying trunk, recalls Edward Weston’s sensuous use of the body’s geometry in his compositions. And the dramatically lit Tic Tac Toe from 2010, showing a scantily clad woman posing on a city street at night, evokes Helmut Newton’s atmospheric photograph of a model wearing Yves St. Laurent’s Le Smoking jacket, shot for French Vogue in 1975.
Von Unwerth has published several books of her photographs, including Revenge, in 2003, and Fräulein, in 2009. Those volumes have been joined by one showcasing the photos of her series “Heimat,” in which she playfully combines visual tropes of traditional Bavarian life with her signature eroticism and wit. She is represented by several dealers, including the Staley-Wise Gallery, in New York, and Galerie Trabant, in Kitzbühel, Austria.
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