PHILLIPS : Steven Meisel – Role Play

Through the intimate streets of the 7ème arrondissement of Paris the innovative american photographer Steven Meisel is exposing his groundbreaking traveling selling collection: Role Play which is also going to be held next in New York and London. This exposition shows his very raw and distinctive work that really screams Steven Meisel’s particulier aesthetic and imagination in fashion photography. He has redefined fashion photography since the 1980’s and we can see that in his work at multiple popular fashion magazines such as, Vanity Fair, Interview, W Magazine, Vogue and his exceptional work at Vogue Italia. He has also been helping create the Vogue Italia cover for the past 25 years. He photographed Naomi Campbell, Chirtsy Turlington and Linda Evan at the prime time of their career’s. Each wall of the art gallery contains a photograph that is a completely different style from the one next to it. From a dead girl pose on the streets of Log Angeles featuring models Anouck Lepere and Raquel Zimmerman to a 1989 portrait of Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington looking nonchalantly worry free and rebellious, and a heavy emphasis on his work in the 1990’s.

My favorite photograph was the one of Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington in Los Angeles, December 1989