A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi’s romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits. Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family holiday. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knapp led him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he first encountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when he became an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him the photographer’s craft. Now based in Paris for more than thirty years, Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film to capture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability and romanticism. Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated colour, he collaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels and designers, and has shot for many leading fashion magazines and international ad campaigns. This title in Thames & Hudson's Photofile series features 72 of his finest photographs. The Photofile SeriesPhotofile brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive, accessible, pocket-sized format. Handsome and collectable, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains over sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
Style Is Life brings together Daniele Tamagni's images of Congolese sapeurs, Botswana's Afrometals, Bolivian wrestlers, young Johannesburg dance groups and more, showcasing famous and unpublished photographs that remind us of the subversive and political value of fashion. 'With every picture of Daniele it becomes clear that he was not a photographer who simply captured moments detached from the surroundings or the people. He immersed himself in every moment and uniquely positioned himself as a foreign photographer who cared about building a relationship with his subject.' (Aida Muluneh) . 'Daniele's images have won the World Press Photo, fashion designers such as Paul Smith and Stella Jean inspired, convinced the demanding jury of the ICP Infinity Award and seduced artists like Solange Knowles.' (Chiara Bardelli Nonino).
A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi’s romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits. Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family holiday. A chance meeting with photographer Peter Knapp led him to move to Paris in the early 1970s, where he first encountered the world of fashion. His career truly began when he became an assistant to Laurence Sackman, who taught him the photographer’s craft. Now based in Paris for more than thirty years, Roversi is famed for his use of large-format Polaroid film to capture images of ethereal beauty, vulnerability and romanticism. Working in evocative monochrome or carefully articulated colour, he collaborates regularly with the world’s top supermodels and designers, and has shot for many leading fashion magazines and international ad campaigns. This title in Thames & Hudson's Photofile series features 72 of his finest photographs. The Photofile SeriesPhotofile brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive, accessible, pocket-sized format. Handsome and collectable, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains over sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
Style Is Life brings together Daniele Tamagni's images of Congolese sapeurs, Botswana's Afrometals, Bolivian wrestlers, young Johannesburg dance groups and more, showcasing famous and unpublished photographs that remind us of the subversive and political value of fashion. 'With every picture of Daniele it becomes clear that he was not a photographer who simply captured moments detached from the surroundings or the people. He immersed himself in every moment and uniquely positioned himself as a foreign photographer who cared about building a relationship with his subject.' (Aida Muluneh) . 'Daniele's images have won the World Press Photo, fashion designers such as Paul Smith and Stella Jean inspired, convinced the demanding jury of the ICP Infinity Award and seduced artists like Solange Knowles.' (Chiara Bardelli Nonino).