PATRICK DEMARCHELIER – DESIRE
2016-01-11Patrick Demarchelier (born 1943 in Le Havre) is a French fashion and advertising photographer. He is most famous for his works of contemporary fashion photography.
In the early 1960s Patrick Demarchelier moved to Paris where he worked as an assistant in several photo labs to improve his technique and skills. During this period he met the Swiss photographer Hans Feurer, another important man in the world of fashion photography.
A few years later, he started to climb the career ladder. Some of his photos had already been published in well-known women’s magazines like Marie Claire or Elle. In 1975 he decided to go to New York where he soon achieved international fame.
By the end of the 1970s, fashion magazines all over the world, including the French, British and American editions of Vogue, had used Demarchelier’s photos for their covers. He also worked as a photographer for news and culture magazines like Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Since 1992 his photos could also be seen for a period of 12 years in the American women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.
Opposite – Shalom Harlow, Monaco, 1992
Exhibition runs through till January 30th, 2016
A.galerie
4 rue Leonce Reynaud
75116 Paris
