Peter Lindbergh’s Images of Women II: 2005–2014 gathers photographs from a precisely defined decade of his work. Published by Schirmer Mosel in 2015 on the occasion of the photographer’s seventieth birthday, the book concentrates on women whose public images were often constructed through fashion, cinema, and celebrity culture, while redirecting attention toward individual presence and character.
The volume follows Lindbergh’s 1997 Images of Women, which brought together work from the 1980s and 1990s. This continuation gives the project a longer historical span: rather than isolating the celebrated pictures associated with his earlier career, it records how his treatment of models, actresses, and other sitters developed between 2005 and 2014. The decade is presented through fashion photographs, portraits, and nudes, with occasional male subjects appearing within a collection otherwise centered on women.
Among those photographed are Milla Jovovich, Isabella Rossellini, Monica Bellucci, Tilda Swinton, Kate Moss, Jessica Chastain, Hye Jung Lee, and Kirk Douglas. The range of subjects clarifies Lindbergh’s recurring concern: not simply the polished surface expected of fashion photography, but the personality and identity of the person before the camera. Familiar faces are thus placed within a sustained photographic inquiry rather than treated merely as a roster of celebrities.
Across 300 pages, Images of Women II offers a substantial account of Lindbergh’s later work and a direct counterpart to the earlier volume. For collectors, its significance lies in that continuity and in the clearly bounded survey it provides of a consequential ten-year period. It is useful both as a monographic study of Lindbergh and as a record of how portraiture and fashion photography can intersect without reducing their subjects to clothes, roles, or public image.