His fashion spreads often featured riffs on art. His last homage to painting, for example, was a spread in Vanity Fair last winter: he coiffed and powdered the models he was photographing until they all looked as if they had walked right out of a John Singer Sargent painting.
- New York Times
David Seidner's "Bernadette Jurkowski", 1994
"What I'm most interested in is evoking the spirit of a painting through the fold of fabric, the position of a hand, the quality of light on skin."
- David Seidner (LIFE)
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David Seidner! Gone (sadly) but not forgotten. I think the pictures he did of Anh Duong are among the most beautiful fashion portraits ever made.
Hi Paul, thanks for commenting on my blog, so that I may find yours.
Bernadette Jurkowki is ethereal.
You have such a fantastic blog!!!
Simply breathtaking. I will be back...your blog is wonderful!
What a beautiful and fascinating post! I did a post on Sargent's home in London last year. He is one of my favorite artists, and it is interesting to see Seidner's interpretation.
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Found you via hidden in france. She has superb taste. Wonderful post!
I worked with David back in the '80s in Paris. He was a true artist. Sadly, I didn't even realize he had died. It brings back to me all the people I knew in the fashion industry that are long since passed. It's unfortunate that all these years later so many still suffer with this disease.
This is really beautiful. I need to look up more of his work.
gorgeous. thanks so much for sharing.
OMG. So beautiful. This made my day.
They are truly classics. There is a retrospective planned at Fundacion Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent Paris for October of this year. He is another American whose talent is more recognized abroad than here at home.
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