Like his predecessors, Henri Cartier-Bresson (for whom Demarchelier once worked) and Richard Avedon, Demarchelier has brought the rich and famous to his striking world of black and white portraiture. Despite his early years in and around Paris, it was Demarchelier’s move to New York that landed him squarely in the sites of publications like Glamour, Elle, Mademoiselle, as well as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar where he enjoyed decade long collaborative relationships. Patrick Demarchelier is widely regarding as one of, if not the, world’s leading fashion photographer of our times.

He continues to live and work in New York. He was the 2007 recipient of the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others. All proceeds go to the charity Police-Action Solidaire.īorn 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. Published to coincide with the exhibition Patrick Demarchelier: Images et Mode a Paris at the Petit Palais, Paris, and 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 personae 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.

Patrick Demarchelier by Steidl