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I live in New York. I'm a photographer. I was Gawker's house photographer since 2004, and nowadays I'm a regular contributor to Vogue. This is the Home of the Vain waiting room, come on in.
Nick Knight, Ode Couture #6 (for V #71)
Nick Knight, Ode Couture #5 (for V #71)
Nick Knight, Ode Couture #7 (for V #71)
Nick Knight, Jil Sander, 1992
Nick Knight, Rose, 2000
Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh & Carson McColl (for i-D magazine)
Via addsubtract. More Nick Knight.
It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is evil. There’s a lack of understanding, a moral dismissal, and an anger that fashion, and by extension fashion photography, is a wasteful, criminal thing.
I quite like that agitation and aggression, because I don’t believe it. In a society where your first encounter with people tends to be visual, you’re sort of saying “This is who I am.” I can’t imagine a society that doesn’t adorn and decorate itself and doesn’t use its outer appearance in some way as a social communication.
— Nick Knight
Via claytoncubitt, originally in Aperture 197. More Nick Knight.
An article about my work at Russian online magazine Look At Me — interesting because they went out of their way and included a few works each by people I mentioned as my favourite photographers — Sarah Moon, Nick Knight, David Bellemere, Clayton Cubitt, Noah Kalina — and other favourite artists, plus books, movies, music videos and blah blah blah.
Paolo Roversi, Untitled (Another magazine, Spring/Summer 2008)
I completely missed this amazing Paolo Roversi fashion story when it came out last year Another Magazine — not even the usual suspects bothered to put it up online. See it now at the ICP as part of Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now exhibition, featuring the good (Nick Knight, Miles Aldridge, Mert & Marcus, Michael Thompson), the bad (Inez & Vinoodh), and the retarded (both Stevens — Klein and Meisel). Fun!
Also, 2009 is Fashion Year at the ICP, and there are three other excellent exhibitions going on over there until May 3 — This Is Not a Fashion Photograph, Edward Steichen at Condé Nast, and Munkacsi’s Lost Archive — free entry Friday afternoon, for the cheap/broke among us.
Guy Bourdin & Nick Knight, Compulsive Viewing IX
My favourite of the Guy Bourdin/Nick Knight collaborations-in-the-afterlife — put together 12 years after Bourdin’s death in 1991 — and the final one I’m posting here.
More fascinating stuff at Nick Knight’s Showstudio.
Guy Bourdin & Nick Knight, Compulsive Viewing IV
Guy Bourdin & Nick Knight, Compulsive Viewing II
Guy Bourdin & Nick Knight, Compulsive Viewing XI
