Artworks

Models are Pat Cleveland and Donna Jourdan
Chloe shoes designed by Karl Largerfeld

- Where are the clothes?
- There are no clothes, you are wearing shoes...

Bourdin enjoyed telling stories through his fashion photography as well and so demonstrated that it is not the product but the image that is of prime importance. He did this by exploiting the relationship between artistic and fashion photography. For Bourdin, the product was an accessory to the story that the image was telling and the story to the product.

Pat Cleveland, the brunette model in "Nudes Wearing Charles Jourdan Shoes", tells the story of the shooting of these photographs in Bourdin's mysterious studio and the peculair meeting the two models had with the famous photographer:

"I knew that this was a great thing to work with Guy Bourdin, because he was so amazing, he was considered the artist of photography... There, we were on the set, we were waiting and waiting nude, and it was freezing cold, and the rain was outside coming through the garage door... And it was dark in there, and finally he showed up and we didn't even see him behind the camera, it was so dark... He hardly spoke... We saw the big finger come up and go down on the camera... He took one, two, three shots, he said stay there, and we waited and we waited we got cold and covered in goosebumps, and by the time we did this photograph, we were so happy to touch another human being... And Donna said "you cover me because you have more beauty than I do", and I posed this way..."

http://showstudio.com/project/subjective/pat_cleveland_by_guy_bourdin

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