Untold
stories
stories
ALREADY WELL RECEIVED IN GERMANY, ITALY AND SPAIN IT HAS BEEN BELGIUM’S HONOUR TO HOST THE PETER LINDBERGH UNTOLD STORIES EXHIBITION. CONCEIVED TO CELEBRATE HIS LEGACY AND GIVE A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO LINDBERGH’S VAST OEUVRE, THE EXHIBITION COVERED HIS CAREER FROM THE EARLY 1980S UNTIL HIS DEATH IN SEPTEMBER 2019.
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personally curated by
PETER LINDBERGH
photographs
personally curated by
PETER LINDBERGH
UNTOLD STORIES, THE FIRST EVER SURVEY EXHIBITION PERSONALLY CURATED BY PETER LINDBERGH, FIRST OPENED AT THE KUNSTPALAST DÜSSELDORF IN FEBRUARY 2020, AND HAS SINCE TRAVELLED FROM GERMANY TO ITALY AND SPAIN, BEFORE OPENING IN BELGIUM IN DECEMBER 2022. THE SELECTION OF 152 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LINDBERGH’S WORK INCLUDES EARLY AND MORE RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS PRESENTED FROM THE ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE.
Exposing an unexpected side of Lindbergh’s career, the exhibition featured not only Lindbergh’s well-known work for internationally renowned magazines, but also many photographs never previously exhibited.
APART FROM CELEBRATING HIS LEGACY, UNTOLD STORIES IS ALSO THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT ON FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY. BELIEVING THAT INDIVIDUAL BEAUTY HAS MANY FACETS, AND THAT THERE IS AUTHENTICITY IN IMPERFECTION, LINDBERGH BECAME FAMOUS FOR CAPTURING PERSONALITY AND SPECIAL MOMENTS OF INTIMACY. BREAKING STEREOTYPES, HIS IMAGES REVOLUTIONISED THE INDUSTRY.
UNTOLD STORIES HAS BEEN A CHANCE FOR BRUSSELS TO SHOWCASE THE WORK THAT LINDBERGH HIMSELF FOUND IMPORTANT. ARRANGED IN AN APPROXIMATE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER EXPERIMENTED WITH HIS OWN MATERIAL, ALLOWING THE INTUITIVE ARRANGEMENT TO PRODUCE UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS.
Revolutionizing
fashion
photography
fashion
photography
UNTOLD STORIES RETRACED PETER LINDBERGH’S JOURNEY AND REVEALED HOW HIS WORK TRANSFORMED THE FASHION INDUSTRY’S CONVENTIONAL STANDARDS OF EXCESSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC RETOUCHING. IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT HE’S RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Lindbergh did not believe in pretense or contrived images. He said: “If you take out the fashion and the artifice, you can then see the real person”. His unorthodox depiction of the supermodels of the 80s and 90s brought both them and him fame. Lindbergh’s narrative fashion series and revealing portraits continue to influence fashion photography today.
Organized thanks to a partnership between the Peter Lindbergh Foundation, the city of Brussels and the Belgian event agency Profirst, the exhibition became part of a vision for the development of culture in Brussels. Its aim was to make art accessible to visitors from Brussels and elsewhere, while at the same time expanding the city's cultural offering and developing the capital's touristic value.
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”As a cultural beacon, Brussels is the ideal location to take Peter’s Untold Stories to a whole new dimension and further dive into his research process.
