André Carrara, Regards

How best to tell the life story of a fashion photographer? What was the common thread composing his career? How does his body of work and progression tie into the history of fashion photography? Regards spans four decades of the extraordinary professional career of a photographer whose discretion and elegance are reflected in this dedicated retrospective: a tribute to womanhood, to women in all their diversity, showcasing their timelessness, universality, sophistication, boldness, seductiveness, provocativeness and even at times their inaccessibility. A hymn exalting their beauty. This one-of-a-kind book, offering numerous iconic images, also delicately narrates how perception of this femininity has evolved over the years. But above all else, this book tells the story of a man's love for women, who have always left him fascinated, amazed, overwhelmed and inspired. This work is a confession of love for what women represent to him, a testimonial to how they move the photographer, who has never ceased to admire them with passion.

About the Author :
Andre Carrara rubbed shoulders with the greatest fashion photographers, some of whom were his friends. A whole generation of photographers of whom there are few leading figures left today. Andre Carrara remains one of the last figures of a fashion world that has disappeared along with its last icons, photographers and designers such as Peter Lindberg, Karl Lagerfeld, Guy Bourdin and Emanuel Ungaro, all of whom shaped the world of fashion and left such a strong imprint on it that it is now difficult for new generations to renew or even transform it. Since 1963 and his first series of photographs, Andre Carrara has worked with the greatest artistic directors in the fashion world, first with Antoine Kieffer at Vogue France, who commissioned his first reports, and then with Roman Cieslewicz at Elle. This collaboration with the man considered to be one of the greatest graphic designers of the second half of the twentieth century was decisive for Andre Carrara: he perfected his style and signed a large number of highly graphic reports with Cieslewicz, in which the clarity and simplicity of artistic expression met the requirements of the magazine's new artistic line. The collaboration was interspersed with a three-year trip to the United States, where he reported for Mademoiselle, Glamour, etc. Returning to France in the early 1970s, he resumed his collaboration with Elle and published in a number of magazines, including the British, German and Italian editions of Vogue, while also becoming one of the main contributors to the MAFIA advertising agency. In the 1990s, at the request of Anna Wintour, Andre Carrara worked regularly for the American magazine Allure and other major titles, but the years 1980-2000 were above all the years of Marie-Claire and Marie-Claire bis, where, with Walter Rospert and then Fred Rawyler as artistic directors, he produced his most beautiful subjects and photographs. Regards presents these most iconic images: they have been part of our history and that of fashion, but they remain timeless, far from being nostalgic or old-fashioned...