Hans Feurer has made his name with fashion and glamor photography: sometimes provocative, usually sexy and always stylish.His work since the 1960s includes Pirelli and Pentax calendars and thousands of photos for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Numero, and Stern.While he has been seen as a Swiss Duffy or Bailey, Feurer has carved his own career with well-recognized photos of models, occasionally naked apart from coats of body paint or sheer stockings.Now Mead Carney and André Werther are about to present a retrospective, called “Exposure.”Feurer is known for his shots of 1960′s “Swinging London,” the Nova campaigns of the 1970s and work for Kenzo in the 1980s featuring model Iman.“Fashion has always fascinated me,” he says. “I’ve always tried to understand the dream behind the images – and these photographs are kind of dream projections, you know? Of what one could be, of where one’s desires might lead you.”Feurer often uses strong light and shadow, fabric and female form. He attributes the use to light to his time travelling across Africa for two years in the late 1960s.“I don’t do sterile, formal pictures”, Feurer says. “I like to make pictures that provoke an emotion and affect you in your feelings. For that, both the woman and the clothes need to come alive.” The show will run from September 16 through 26. Mead Carney Fine Art, 45 Dover Street, Mayfair London, W1S 4FF.Information: http://www.meadcarney.com
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