Patrick Demarchelier: Forms [Hardcover]

Patrick Demarchelier (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1998

The unique vision of photographer Patrick Demarchelier is instantly recognizable in the pages of fashion and culture magazines across the globe. He has captured the world's best - known faces and models wearing the latest couture season after season. Yet beyond the inconstancy of celebrity and fashion, the focus of Demarchelier's photography is consistently form.

For this book, Demarchelier has selected his most successful and striking images to make a multi-faceted artistic statement. Portraits of personalities ranging from Princess Diana to boxer Oscar de la Hoya are juxtaposed with Demarchelier's most iconic fashion images as well as unpublished work that includes safari animals and sumo wrestlers, people from exotic lands, and evocative underwater nudes that showcase the sensual female form.

For anyone with a finger on the pulse of photography, fashion, and art, Forms is not to be missed.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Patrick Demarchelier is a renowned fashion and celebrity photographer whose work has appeared regularly in dozens of magazines worldwide. He currently has an exclusive relationship with Harper's Bazaar. Demarchelier was the first non-British photographer to be invited to photograph a member of the Royal Family, resulting in his iconic portrtaits of the late Princess Diana. This is his third book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli (November 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847821609
• ISBN-13: 978-0847821600
• Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 11.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,172,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Master Portrait Photography, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Patrick Demarchelier: Forms (Hardcover)

What Galen Rowell does for mountains, Patrick Demarchelier does for living subects. He captures the character, the inner self, the most basic essence of a subject and capture it on black and white film. It's as if he breaths on his photographs and they come to life. He does it for Hillary Clinton, he does it for giraffes--all mesmerizing to look at. I wish he could photograph everyone in the world--it would be a so much more interesting place if all the static, cliche portraits were replaced with his vivid work. The book includes color and magazine shoots, too--which prove the range of his talent. Who else could capture a different facet of the exhaustively photographed Linda Evangelista in every shot? Or make the form, the line of a model reclining on a whitewashed wall as interesting as the model's beauty? A really great book of pictures whose character, form, lines will entrance any viewer.This book -- or should I say Demarchelier's work--deserves more than five stars. How about ten?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real master's work, August 24, 2000

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Edward Yee (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patrick Demarchelier: Forms (Hardcover)

This is real impressive in term of b&w photography. I like his creative composition and expression of forms. It is more than beautiful pic and model, and impressive techniques. The variety of subject is another good reason to get this one.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars yearning for fashion photography, January 10, 1999

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Luca Geromin([e-mail]) (Venice, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patrick Demarchelier: Forms (Hardcover)

Patrick Demarchelier's mastery of tecnique and abundance of creativity is unique and deserves to be fully explored in this unmissable book. Fashion photography lovers must thank Harper's Bazaar's genius for its continous stimulation of our senses. Thank you, thank you Pat.