Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Ellen Von Unwerth


Von Unwerth by Steven Meisel

And I thought I was an obsessive collector...

Willam McFadden has collected an astonishingly encyclopedic collection of Ellen von Unwerth's work. The website where he presents this stuff includes links to interviews, biographies and articles about von Unwerth; photos of her as a model; images from all of her books; photos of the installation of gallery shows; advertising she shot, categorized by client and within each entry, listed by year; editorial work; and commercials, music videos and films she has made. It's a huge reservoir of imagery, much of it reproduced large. And the most amazing part of this archive is that these thousands of images were nearly all gathered from the web.

Personally, I find her work more interesting than most fashion/advertising/editorial work so this was quite the time-eater. And you never know when you might have to write a research paper about her and her work. It's all here.

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