Publisher's Synopsis
The illustrious and highly celebrated Chicago-based photographer Victor Skrebneski is renowned for his high-styled and glamorous fashion and advertising photography, for sensuous and sculptural nude studies, and for casually elegant portraits of friends and the famous. Perhaps most known for his commercial work for the cosmetic company Estée Lauder, Skrebneski has also photographed for Vogue, Town & Country and Fitness magazines, and for fashion luxury houses Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Givenchy, among many other clients. His photographs are exhibited and collected all over the world and his work has been fêted with retrospective exhibitions by institutions such as The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Edited personally by the photographer himself, Skrebneski Documented: 1948-2018 is an intimate compendium of carefully selected images photographed over seven decades. This evocative collection of photographs spans from his best-known images including his series of "black turtleneck sweater portraits"-dramatic black and white portraits of iconic stars, his dynamic, blurry motion studies, his provoking nude photographs of flawless, sculpted bodies, to his Dadaist collages comprised of body parts. This volume captures the experimentalism, boundary-pushing, and unceasing wit and creativity of Skrebneski's images and features a who's who of famous faces. For photography, art, and fashion lovers alike, this is a true collector's item that celebrates the exhilarating work by one of America's greatest photographic artists.
