![]() ![]() ![]() When I became 18 years old, I knew I definitely didn’t want to go to the German military service, so I went to Switzerland and stopped my sports career. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough. PETER LINDBERGH My first obsession was actually sports. I want to start from the beginning, when you were a kid. LÉA SEYDOUX: So, Peter, it’s my first interview. He wants to both tell a story and tell it like it is. So iconic are these images that it’s difficult to even hear the word supermodel without picturing Christy, Linda, Cindy, Naomi, Stephanie, and Helena, prancing on a beach arm in arm or huddled in a New York street in Lindbergh’s often imitated minimalist pictures of the era.Īs Lindbergh explains to actress Léa Seydoux, whom he photographed with signature power and intimacy in a Parisian hôtel particulier, this legacy allows him to explore even more deeply the personal and political dimensions of his work. And perhaps it is this cosmopolitan cocktail or the wanderings of his youth that give such sumptuous depth to his classical portraits, often in black-and-white, of the most beautiful women of the last half-century. ![]() He lives in Paris, New York, and the Provencal town of many a van Gogh sunflower, Arles. Peter Lindbergh is a German photographer born in 1944 in what is now Poland. It’s important to know what you stand for, no? Peter Lindbergh The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. ![]()
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