Published by Schirmer/Mosel in 2004, Peter Lindbergh’s *Images of Women* brings together photographs made across roughly two decades of his work. Its 312 pages encompass fashion images, portraits of actresses and musicians, and photographs of the models with whom his name became closely associated. Madonna, Tina Turner, Demi Moore, Milla Jovovich, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, and Daryl Hannah are among the figures represented.
The book’s subject is broader than celebrity portraiture or fashion alone. By placing these fields within one substantial survey, it shows how Lindbergh’s practice operated across editorial image-making, portraiture, and popular culture. Models, performers, and actors appear not as separate categories but as participants in a sustained photographic consideration of public presence. The recurring focus on women also gives the volume its coherence: individual sittings accumulate into an extended study of how identity is fashioned before a camera.
*Images of Women* is especially useful as a record of the continuity within Lindbergh’s practice. Photographs created for the changing world of fashion sit alongside portraits of widely recognized cultural figures, allowing comparisons of pose, expression, and the management of persona. The breadth of the selection makes visible the close relationship between commissioned work and an individual photographic language. Martin Harrison is credited alongside Lindbergh, adding an editorial dimension to this presentation of the photographer’s work.
For a collection concerned with fashion photography, portraiture, or the representation of women in late-twentieth-century visual culture, the book offers a concentrated point of reference. The hardcover volume measures approximately 38.7 by 26 centimetres, a scale suited to sustained attention to individual photographs. Its significance for collectors rests not on claims of scarcity, but on its documented scope: a large-format, book-length account of twenty years in which fashion, fame, and portraiture repeatedly meet.
