JEANLOUP SIEFF (1933-2000)

Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1971

Details

JEANLOUP SIEFF (1933-2000)
Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1971
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in ink (in the margin recto)
titled in ink with photographer's credit copyright stamp, annotated
'71' in pencil (verso)
15½ x 12in. (29.4 x 30.6cm.)

Literature

Jeanloup Sieff, Contrejour, Paris, 1982, p. 152;
Jeanloup Sieff: Photgraphies 53-86, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1986, cat. no. 114;
Harbrecht, Yves Saint Laurent et la photographie de mode, Albin Michel, Paris, 1988, p. 79.

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Lot Essay

In an image which made advertising history, the timid fashion designer poses naked to promote his new perfume. In a controversial approach to branding, Yves Saint Laurent paved the way for a cult of the designer we now take for granted.

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