Video: Fashion photography meets art: Annie Leibovitz's photo shoot for Vogue magazine
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
With the December issue, the editors of American Vogue decided to please everyone: lovers of cinema, photography, painting and, of course, fashion. Perhaps one of the most talented and sought-after photographers of our time, Annie Leibovitz, shot actress Jessica Chastain (known for the films Reckoning, Shelter, Coriolanus, The Tree of Life and The Servant) in a photo shoot that reconstructs masterpieces world painting.
The photo selected for the cover of the issue refers the viewer to the 1895 painting Flaming June by the English artist Frederick Leighton. It is believed that the image of a sleeping girl in a flowing orange dress was inspired by classical Greek sculptures of sleeping nymphs and naiads.
Another photograph of the series repeats the plot of the painting "Japanese girl" ("La Mousme", 1888) by Vincent van Gogh. While working on this portrait, Van Gogh was 35 years old, he temporarily moved from Paris to Provence and was at the peak of his career, experiencing perhaps one of the happiest periods of his life.
"Portrait of Ria Munk III" (1917-1918), which served as a prototype for the next picture, is the third and final painting in a series of portraits of Aranka Munk's daughter by Gustav Klimt. The wife of a wealthy industrialist asked the artist to depict her eldest daughter Riya, who committed suicide because of unhappy love in 1911 at the age of 24.
The serious young lady in the white dress that Jessica Chastain is copying in this photo is Frances Cleveland Preston, wife of US President Stephen Grover Cleveland and the 27th First Lady of the United States. The portrait, commissioned by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn, was completed in 1899.
The shot with a naked model standing with her back to the lens is an allusion to the painting "The Evening Gown" (1954) by the famous Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte.
Also sources of inspiration for Leibovitz were the paintings "Le Retour de la mer" (1924) by Felix Vallotton, "Odalisque with Red Culottes" ("Odalisque with Red Culottes", 1869-1954) by Henri Matisse and the famous photograph of Julia Jackson, mother of Virginia Woolf, taken by the Englishwoman Julia Margaret Cameron - a photographer of the Victorian era.
The photo session demonstrates not only love and respect for the history of art, but also (which is important for one of the most famous women's fashion magazines in the world) luxurious dresses from Alexander McQueen, Vera Wang, Olivier Theyskens and Alexander Wang.
By the way, Annie Leibovitz is an idol and role model for the American photographer Sequoia Ziff.
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