


His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair," among many others.

Born outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with "Harper's Bazaar" and Hearst Publications. Featuring more than 400 of Demarchelier's most telling photographs, this volume provides an invaluable fashion reference point, all the while charting the course of our own cultural obsession with celebrity and beauty. Demarchelier is everywhere at once, with a photographic sensibility that is as iconic, incisive and as varied as his subject matter. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personas of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna. From his earliest work at "Harper's Bazaar" to his now mythic collaboration with "Vogue," Patrick Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. This monograph is the definitive guide to the career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. Demarchelier is everywhere at once, with a photographic sensibility that is as iconic, incisive and.
