Product Description

Nick Knight is among the world's most influential fashion photographers. His clients are among the top in fashion and design and include Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. He has also shot album covers for Bjork, David Bowie, Kylie and Massive Attack, and his work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and Saatchi Gallery. The book is a collection of Knight's most beautiful and important images as well as previously unpublished photographs. Contents cover the different aspects of Knight's work to explain and visually reveal his point of view on a range of topics that he believes are crucial to understanding the motivation behind what he does. The book contains an introductory essay by Charlotte Cotton, the head of the Photography department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as a variety of images exploring new photographic technology: his video work and the body of imagery he has developed for showstudio.com. All in all, this is a gorgeous, comprehensive volume by one of the world's most innovative, highly respected fashion photographers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1879 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 264 pages

From the Publisher
Nick Knight's exhibition "Showstudio: Fashion Revolution" is on at Somerset House from September 18 to December 22 2009.

About the Author
Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio, is among the world's most influential photographers. He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed and Confused, i-D, The Face and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. Knight has also shot record covers for Bjork, David Bowie, Kylie and Massive Attack. As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a twelve year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel. Knight's work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery. He has also produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London.

Customer Reviews

almost great
Amazing work from the master.Shame the book as a piece of work get's a bit let down by an uninspiring layout and too many screen captures.Should have included some kind of dvd.

Over rated fashion photographer
As usual, Mr Knight is the king of self promotion amongst the fashonista fashion photographers via his own web site, which features his 'art' type fashion shoots, the book is all very predictable as most of the pictures perpetuate the female and male stereotypes of a bygone era. High production values and over the top re-touching of the photographs occlude the shallow and facile nature of his 'art', which seems to be trapped in an 80s time warp. It's all very Eurocentric and self indulgent, and does not address contemporary debates relating to gender, race or ethnicity. It seems nearly every revue you read about him, states that his work and website is 'cutting edge' or 'ground breaking'. The cover features young women in 'exotic' dress and fake cataract on one eye, and Japanese inspired hair: is it meant to be subversive? If you like high fashion photography and re-touching with old fashioned themes, then this is the book for you.