Can you fit a whole life into a book? Hardly, if you’ve been pressing the shutter button for decades like Bruce Weber. The illustrated book “Bruce Weber. My Education” comes close, however, by presenting a cross-section of the American photographer’s oeuvre. Between the covers of the book you will not only find the iconic campaign shoots with predominantly naked models, but also reportage photos and intimate portraits. Whether Leo DiCaprio or Kim Kardashian, Anselm Kiefer or Calvin Klein models – Weber’s visual signature is recognizable in every picture.
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BRUCE WEBER. MY EDUCATION
Bruce Weber made fans and enemies alike with his erotic campaign images in the 1980s. While the collaboration was too risky for some, he became a regular collaborator for others, such as GQ, W Magazine and Vanity Fair. The book “Bruce Weber. My Education”. Rare editorials, previously unpublished reportage photos and portraits of influential people from the worlds of culture and politics round off the book. The photographer’s own memories and texts by Charles Bukowski, Rupert Brooke and John Steinbeck, among others, immortalize Bruce Weber as a veteran of fashion and portrait photography. Bruce Weber, “Bruce Weber. My Education”, Taschen, hardcover, 564 pages, approx. 125.-, taschen.com
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