- Gebundene Ausgabe: 88 Seiten
- Verlag: Steidl Verlag; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (15. Oktober 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 3865210155
- ISBN-13: 978-3865210159
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 36,5 x 25,5 x 1,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 413.502 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Produktinformation |
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Karl Lagerfeld auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Karl Lagerfeld auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Synopsis
In his youth, Dorian Gray had his portrait painted, and because the painting wonderfully preserved a carefree moment, Gray begged for a trade-off: the painting would age and he himself would remain young and handsome forever. That's exactly what happened until one day, in a rage, he stabbed the canvas and died. What remained was a flawless portrait of youth. Karl Lagerfeld has staged the core of Oscar Wilde's famous novel in his own way. He shows a luxurious Bohemian world as in the freeze-frames of a film. Young people celebrate, paying homage to beautiful bodies and devoting themselves completely to the moment. Right up until the metamorphosis begins. Then the young man changes into an old man and the pretty woman into her own death mask. This book tells the story as a film. It reflects a world of fashion and glamour and suggests the aesthetics of Caravaggio or the pre-Raphaelites. With this publication, Karl Lagerfeld, one of the greatest protagonists of the fashion scene, makes his contribution - not completely free of irony - to the subject of the transitory nature of beauty.
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Eine digitale Version dieses Buchs im Kindle-Shop verkaufen
Wenn Sie ein Verleger oder Autor sind und die digitalen Rechte an einem Buch haben, können Sie die digitale Version des Buchs in unserem Kindle-Shop verkaufen.
Weitere Informationen
Kundenrezensionen
Es gibt noch keine Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.de
5 Sterne
4 Sterne
3 Sterne
2 Sterne
1 Sterne
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3 Rezensionen
6 von 7 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A Skillful Diversion
12. Dezember 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Karl Lagerfeld finds other venues for his creative mind in this photomontage inspired by the Oscar Wilde story 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', and while there is nothing profound or earth shattering about this photographic foray, the book does hold its own as an art piece.
Lagerfeld has selected some beautiful models, arranged them in progressively extroverted and erotic moods, while always pulling focus to the young beautiful central man who is his Dorian Gray. As in the story, Dorian doesn't age: Dorian's portrait ages. But the whiling (perhaps wasting?) away of the golden years of youth are captured with great finesse by Lagerfeld. About two thirds of the way through this pictorial monograph Dorian and a female model begin to age in front of our eyes until the death of youth is explored in the wasting and wrinkling that is the burden of old age.
While there have been plays and movies drawn form Wilde's infamous adoration of everlasting youth, this use of the fashion camera has a real sting in that it comes from the mind of a man (and models) whose life depends on youthful appearances. That extra warning makes this book even more significant. Grady Harp, December 2004
Lagerfeld has selected some beautiful models, arranged them in progressively extroverted and erotic moods, while always pulling focus to the young beautiful central man who is his Dorian Gray. As in the story, Dorian doesn't age: Dorian's portrait ages. But the whiling (perhaps wasting?) away of the golden years of youth are captured with great finesse by Lagerfeld. About two thirds of the way through this pictorial monograph Dorian and a female model begin to age in front of our eyes until the death of youth is explored in the wasting and wrinkling that is the burden of old age.
While there have been plays and movies drawn form Wilde's infamous adoration of everlasting youth, this use of the fashion camera has a real sting in that it comes from the mind of a man (and models) whose life depends on youthful appearances. That extra warning makes this book even more significant. Grady Harp, December 2004
4 von 7 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Not only Mr. Gray.......
12. November 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
But also Mrs. Gray is in this book. She is played by topmodel Eva Herzigova. Beautiful pictures are in this book. There's a set of pictures where Mrs. Gray gets older and older. Or perhaps i should say, thinner and thinner. Or more anorexic that you could imagine. Pretty scary are these pictures of a topmodel that perhaps has suffered from this disease in real life...
But, it's still a beautiful book by the great Karl Lagerfeld.
A musthave!
But, it's still a beautiful book by the great Karl Lagerfeld.
A musthave!
9 von 23 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
An insult
8. Januar 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
A friend showed me this book while visiting the local book mega store. It bears little resemblance to Oscar Wilde's actual classic novel, even symbolically, except on that symbolic level preferred by dilletantes today known as "superficiality." I have seen the work of many so-called "starving artists," men and women of low incomes yet rich in talent. It is almost heartbreaking, watching them try to break into the almost impenetrable world of fine-arts photography publishing. Karl Lagerfeld, on the other hand can buy his way into the art photography world. But he can not buy talent. There was once a time when women were portrayed as sexy and alluring, WITH curves, such as the legendary Alberto Vargas painted them. That's the problem with the fashion world today: Women are shorn of their femininity in order to please a warped minority, who'd rather they look like 13 year old boys.
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
