Peter Lindbergh, German photographer, known for being the great portraitist of the golden years of the top models , has died at 74, as he has been able to know through his Instagram account. Lindbergh, born in the last years of World War II in what is now Polish territory and raised in the postwar years of the 40s and 50s, developed his career around the theme of female beauty.
And, despite the fact that his name is associated with the most sumptuous years of the fashion industry, Lindbergh presented himself as a dissident and a romantic on that subject. It claimed the spontaneous beauty, the naturalness and the sincerity of the portraits but also defended the artisan work of the photographer. He rejected overproduction and mannerism . The models obviously had the best opinion about him.
In recent years, Lindbergh entered into a process of vindication and nostalgia. There were exhibitions with his work in Paris and in Rotterdam and a documentary told his life and his work and came to be exhibited at the Cannes festival. Faced with amateur fashion photography and large standardized productions, the work of the German photographer acquired an ethical sense. His signature never ceased to have prestige. He worked for Vogue until the end of his career and left in his pages a final legacy: the cover of Rosalia .
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