Five Beautiful Women - Hardcover

Skrebneski, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847831140 ISBN 13: 9780847831142

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2008

Synopsis

Skrebneski is celebrated as one of the world’s finest fashion and portrait photographers. His diverse body of work has won him international accolades and, for more than half a century, he has photographed the world’s most famous people, from Orson Welles, Truman Capote, and Audrey Hepburn to Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Iman. In 1962, Skrebneski became the exclusive photographer for Estée Lauder, and over the years his flawless images of models such as Paulina Porizkova and Willow Bay made history. Five Beautiful Women is an elegant portfolio, originally published in 1987, to commemorate his twenty-five year collaboration with Estée Lauder. For the project, five distinctly beautiful models were chosen—Phyllis Connor, Karen Harris, Karen Graham, Shaun Casey, and Willow Bay—and, as Hubert de Givenchy notes, "[Skrebneski] succeeded in his very personal way to convey not only the external individuality of his subjects but, what in my opinion is most important, their inner beings."

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Skrebneski has photographed for the most prestigious fashion houses including Chanel, Givenchy, and Christian Dior; department stores such as Marshall Fields and Saks Fifth Avenue; and a wide range of magazines, including Town and Country, Interview, and Vogue. Skrebneski: The First Fifty Years was published in conjunction with a retrospective at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1999. Hubert de Givenchy founded the House of Givenchy in 1952. The world-famous couturier is renowned for dressing Audrey Hepburn off-screen and in such classic films as Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s—and for his host of celebrity clients, including Jackie Kennedy, perennially on fashion’s "best-dressed" list.

Review:

"...an essential for any beauty photographer or photo historian."
~American Photo

"Five distinctly beautiful models were chosen for this elegant portfolio that also gives readers an in-depth look at decades of vintage fashion, from Valentino to Oscar de la Renta." ~Bal Harbour

“Looking at these long ago Great Gasby-ish standards of American beauty, style, and luxury, one can appreciate the aspirational experience that was evoked in both the viewers and the models. Beauty such as this is eternal.” ~Range Finder Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0847831140
• ISBN 13: 9780847831142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160