This monograph on the renowned French photographer celebrates Jean Francois Lepage's thoroughly unconventional approach to the fashion shoot, as well as his equally captivating drawings, paintings and collages. For the past three decades Lepage has been creating a hybrid collection of images that lace together cinema, surrealism and haute-couture. This gorgeous book presents a selection of more than 100 of these images, representing a career that has continued to flourish. It features Lepage's work starting in the 1980s until today, charting his rejection of institutionalised glamour which resulted in genre-bending work with Vogue, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Marie-Claire as well as the houses of Dior, Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, and Nina Ricci. Dripping with colour, these photographs are at once dreamlike and disturbing, alienating and meditative, revealing the work of a celebrated artist who has never foundered from his quest to decontextualise fashion photography into something wholly original. AUTHOR: Phil Bicker is a senior photo editor at Time and Time.com. He was an art director at the The Face magazine, as well as creative director of Vogue Hommes International, The Fader, and Magnum Photos, New York. Raphaelle Stopin is a freelance curator, writer, and art consultant. For many years she has been the curator in charge of the photography at the Hyeres International Festival of Fashion and Photography. Her exhibitions have included the likes of Erwin Blumenfeld, Melvin Sokolsky, and Saul Leiter. 90 colour illustrations
