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How to capture the cultured and ref ned glamour of the school of a master such as Horst P. Horst, after
creations that are true masterpieces of craftsman- a debut in the “nomadic” photojournalism among the
ship. How to show the authentic meaning of clothes native cultures of Mongolia, Siberia and the Amazon -
that have hours and hours of painstaking work. How you start to feel the wonder and you get transported in
to express the sense of a couture that is a real pas- a dream world, surreal, full of intriguing patterns that
sion, grown in the intimacy of hardworking workshops, combine the romantic aesthetics of a world suspended
silent guardians of a poetic sense of excellence. Sug- in time. Visions of a beauty that borders on an artistic
gestions, feelings, pure emotions that need to be re- universe staging pictorial atmospheres with a cinema-
turned without artif ce but with all the soul. Putting it tic taste, in a perfect balance of saturated colors and
this way, it shouldn’t surprise then to run into the very unique textures obtained with a special development
large format images created by the photographer of process. “It is the aestetics of Irving Penn, of Fellini, of
Weisenfels, Cathleen Naundorf, strictly made with a the Renaissance and the Baroque painting that ispired
Deardorff or Plaubel camera and on Polaroid f lm. Yet me when in 2005 I started my series of shots of haute
observing the shots of the German artist - formed at couture - says Cathleen Naundorf.

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