Nick Knight is a visionary photographer celebrated for his groundbreaking fashion imagery and unconventional approach to beauty. His work is defined by daring artistic collaborations with leading designers, earning him acclaim in both advertising and prestigious fashion magazines. Knight also founded and directs the award-winning fashion website SHOWstudio.com, dedicated to exploring the entire creative process from conception to completion. His continuous experimentation with technology and visual media positions him at the forefront of progressive art.
Through exquisite botanical paintings and insightful essays, Flora examines the fascinating history of plants and flowers. Over 20 plant families are profiled, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, roses, tulips and waterlilies.
Over the past decade, the increasing use of technology and image manipulation within the fashion industry has led to an increase in the fantastical image, as much a product of the machine as it is a result of the imaginative faculties of its creators. From fashion shoots that display clothes adorned on invisible models, to painterly reinterpretations of the traditional fashion tableau, the fine line between reality and fantasy is becoming increasingly blurred.The Impossible Image is a compilation of the best examples of this digital marriage. Selected from leading style titles based in New York, London and Paris and art directed by Robin Derrick, Art Director of British Vogue, The Impossible Image highlights the most innovative and thought-provoking use of digital technology and its implementation within the modern fashion shoot. Including work by Nick Knight, Norbert Schoerner, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Vincent Peters, Phil Poynter, Solve Sundsbo, Andrea Giacobbe, Stephane Sednaoul, Rankin, Mike Thomas, Lee Jenkins, Matt Alas and Marcus Piggott.The cover sequence, 'For Erin, Gisele, Karen, Maggie, Kate and Alec', photographed exclusively for the book by Nick Knight, features hidden profiles of six supermodels, each within a bouquet of flowers. It was digitally enhanced by Allan Finamore and Vim Jethwa of Core Ltd, London, with additional post-production by Howard Wakefield and Paul Hetherington, London.
The book offers an in-depth analysis of Li Da's philosophical and theoretical contributions, highlighting their origins, structure, and development. It presents significant texts from Chinese Marxism alongside essential Marxist writings that shaped the political discourse of the 1930s, providing valuable insights into the evolution of Marxist thought in that era.
Zehn Jahre sind ins Land gegangen, seit wir das erste Buch von Nick Knight veröffentlicht haben, mit dem er sich in die Liste der großen und einflussreichen Imagemaker der Welt eingeschrieben hat. Sein neues Buch fängt nahtlos dort an, wo wir seinerzeit aufgehört haben. Es umfasst mehr als 300 Bilder aus den vergangen Jahren, in denen Schock und Schönheit, Eleganz und Erfindungsgabe, Farbe und Form auf immer innovative Weise und auf höchster Qualitätsebene zu jener Mischung verschmelzen, für die der Name Nick Knight steht. Ein Text von Charlotte Cotton, Kuratorin für Photographie am Los Angeles County Museum of Art, leitet in das komplexe Werk des Künstlers ein, der vor allem auch durch seine Website SHOWstudio. com Furore gemacht hat. Neben Arbeiten für SHOWstudio enthält das Buch die maßgeblichen Werbekampagnen für Dior, Louis Vuitton und Levi Strauss, sowie die Bilder seiner Zusammenarbeit mit Björk, Michael Clark, Peter Saville, Gareth Pugh, Massive Attack und Hussein Chalayan. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wie es mit den Bildschöpfungen von Nick Knight weitergegangen ist und wie die Modephotographie der Zukunft aussehen könnte, dann greifen Sie zu diesem Buch.