24 Friday Lifestyle | Feature Friday, September 6, 2019

File photo shows German photographer during a press conference for his show ‘Peter In this file photo taken on September 24, 2010 a visitor walks past the photographs ‘’ (right, Lindbergh - On Street’ in . — AFP photos 1994) and ‘Mathilde’ (1989) by photographer Peter Lindbergh during a press preview of the exhibition ‘On Street - Photographs and Film’ in Berlin.

eter Lindbergh, the German photographer up, big-hair studio shoots of the day-that helped imperfections was legendary. “There is no credited with launching the careers of su- define his stark, cinematic style. beauty without truth. All this fake making up of Ppermodels such as , The new faces included Evangelista, Christy a person into something that is not them cannot and , has died Turlington and , all of whom would be beautiful. It is just ridiculous,” he said in No- aged 74, his family told AFP Wednesday. Lind- go on to become stars of the international cat- vember 2016 when launching the 2017 Pirelli bergh’s stark black-and-white images of models walks. “He had a way of turning your imperfec- calendar. and stars staring straight at the camera, which tions into something unique and beautiful... and For that feminist-friendly edition of a calendar played with light and shadow, helped overturn his images will always be timeless,” Crawford long synonymous with langorous nudes, he glossy standards of beauty and fashion in the wrote on her Instagram account. “Caring, kind, roped in veteran stars Helen Mirren and Char- 1980s and 1990s. Lindbergh was born in Lissa and of course hugely talented. We shall miss lotte Rampling-aged 71 and 70 — as “a cry in western Poland in 1944. When he was a few him,” fellow fashion photographer against the terror of perfection and youth”. Lind- months old his family fled the advance of Russian wrote on Instagram. bergh had most recently worked on the Septem- troops to southern Germany. ber “Forces for Change” edition of Vogue UK, He grew up in the steel town of , ‘No beauty without truth’ guest edited by Meghan Markle, now the which he recalled as “the worst industrial, de- The Vogue editor at the time, who commis- Duchess of Sussex. pressive part of Germany”, only discovering the sioned the shoot, was unhappy with the clean, It included his shots of New Zealand Premier art world when he later moved to Berlin. He shot natural look and tossed the picture aside. But it Jacinda Ardern and the teenage Swedish activist the first ad campaign for Volkswagen Golf and was unearthed by , who took over Greta Thunberg. “There is no other photogra- In this file photo taken on September 18, 2007 also worked with Stern magazine-renowned for the magazine’s helm a few months later and pher she considered to bring this meaningful US Cindy Crawford and photographer its photography-before moving to in the promptly hired Lindbergh for her first cover project to life,” according to a post on the Peter Lindbergh attend the “30 Days Of Fashion” late 1970s. It was his 1988 photo of a group of shoot. Lindbergh also worked with Vanity Fair, duchess’s royal Instagram account. — AFP event hosted by Hearst Magazines at Hearst young women in white shirts and tousled hair on Harper’s Bazaar and The New Yorker magazine. Tower in New York City. a beach in Malibu-a far cry from the big make- His aversion to touching up photographs to hide

In this file photo taken on September 20, 2016 in Los Angeles, German photographer Peter Lindbergh at- In this file photo taken on October 21, 2008 a visitor looks at a photograph of (from left) US model Cindy tends his Book Signing for “A Different Vision On Fashion Photography”. Crawford, German model Tatjana Patitz, Danish model , Canadian model Linda Evan- gelista, German model , British model Naomi Campbell, Dutch model and US model taken by German photographer Peter Lindbergh during the preparation of the 35th edition of the international contemporary art fair FIAC, at the Grand Palais in Paris.