Any Objections? - Softcover

Testino, Mario

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714838845 ISBN 13: 9780714838847

Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd, 1999

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A collection of bold, fun, vivid images giving an insight into the life of Mario Testino, one of today's top fashion photographers. Aimed at fashion and photography students, fashion lovers and the gay market. Includes fold-outs, colour and duotone photographs.

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Fashion photographer Mario Testino takes pictures of what he sees--and what he sees most is models. His color-drenched fashion work is well known to readers of magazines like Vogue. He has a particular knack for catching famous posers off guard--Naomi Campbell looking over her shoulder as her exceedingly low-cut dress is zipped up her back(side); Carla Bruni, backstage at Dior, fully made-up and fully unclothed, shielding herself from Testino's spotlight. Madonna, perhaps his most famous celebrity muse, dancing offstage with her brother. All of these images are vibrant and compelling. But Testino's strength as a photographer is truly revealed when he puts his lens to less glossy images: a man's torso, crisscrossed with sheet marks; a stark black-and-white dual portrait of two young Muscovites; goldfish swarming in a plant-filled tank; a crowded, bronzed South American beach.

The hundreds of previously unpublished photographs that make up Any Objections? are reproduced on full pages of heavy, pearly paper, unfettered by captions (the photos are all easily referenced at the back of the book). If you don't think you'll be able to resist the urge to tear out the pages to hang them on the wall, you might consider buying an extra copy.

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Mario Testino's first book, this text reproduces his images that have made his name synonymous with the cutting edge of fashion. His images of the Princess of Wales and Madonna are included as well as his numerous campaigns for Gucci, Versace, Missoni and others.

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