"We were all on the road: photographers, models, makeup artists, hairdressers, fashion stylists. Every week it was a different location in Europe … We were young and in need of expression. The great fashion and creative directors let you roam, they gave you twenty pages to express your vision—it was a complete creative playground where we could be rebellious, and the word compromise was not spoken, not even thought about." This is how photographer Stephanie Pfriender Stylander describes the heady life of a fashion photographer in the 1990s. This new monograph introduces you to what Pfriender Stylander produced in that atmosphere: evocative photographs capturing sweeping, cinematic fashion stories and intimate portraits of celebrities, all tinged with the photographer's gritty realism. From a very young, unknown Kate Moss to rock legend Keith Richards, Pfriender Stylander finds the hidden essence in her subjects, an unseen character and vulnerability in even the most seasoned veterans.
Inspired by Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave and John Cassavetes films, Pfriender Stylander's work is cinematic. Fashion models, actors and musicians (including Joaquin Phoenix, Nicole Kidman and Björk, among others) are transformed into characters who embody her vision.
Kim Francis for the "Evening Standard," London. New York City, 1994, is reproduced from Stephanie Pfriender Stylander: The Untamed Eye.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Daily Mail
Regina F. Graham
A rare and unique glimpse into the personalities behind faces of those known around the world.
Vogue Paris
Alexandre Marain
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander’s intense and poetic photos take visual inspiration from 1940s Italian neo-realism, the French 1960s New Wave movement and films by John Cassavetes.
i-D Magazine
Sarah Moroz
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander's photography archive is imbued with the spirit of the 90s.
Musee Magazine
Erik Nielsen
Showcasing a photographer who could see through the thin veneer of immortality promised by celebrity and instead, showed us character.
Featured photograph, of Carolyne Benezet wearing Versace for Condé Nast Traveler, Rome, 1998, is reproduced from Stephanie Pfriender Stylander: The Untamed Eye, the new Fashion Week favorite from MW Editions. Cinematic and moody, the photographs capture favorite models like Kate Moss alongside creative powerhouses like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicole Kidman, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix and Keith Richards. The only text in this fully-illustrated, deluxe oversized monograph is a poetic text by the artist beginning, "did i tell you the moon was full and bounced across the dark sky lighting up the bedsheets filled with pages of paper and word…" continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.25 x 13 in. / 168 pgs / 26 color / 112 duotone. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $60 GBP £40.00 ISBN: 9780998701820 PUBLISHER: MW Editions AVAILABLE: 9/25/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
"We were all on the road: photographers, models, makeup artists, hairdressers, fashion stylists. Every week it was a different location in Europe … We were young and in need of expression. The great fashion and creative directors let you roam, they gave you twenty pages to express your vision—it was a complete creative playground where we could be rebellious, and the word compromise was not spoken, not even thought about." This is how photographer Stephanie Pfriender Stylander describes the heady life of a fashion photographer in the 1990s. This new monograph introduces you to what Pfriender Stylander produced in that atmosphere: evocative photographs capturing sweeping, cinematic fashion stories and intimate portraits of celebrities, all tinged with the photographer's gritty realism. From a very young, unknown Kate Moss to rock legend Keith Richards, Pfriender Stylander finds the hidden essence in her subjects, an unseen character and vulnerability in even the most seasoned veterans.
Inspired by Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave and John Cassavetes films, Pfriender Stylander's work is cinematic. Fashion models, actors and musicians (including Joaquin Phoenix, Nicole Kidman and Björk, among others) are transformed into characters who embody her vision.
