Published by Schirmer/Mosel in 2006, Peter Lindbergh’s Untitled 116 was his first major book in nearly a decade. The volume gathers photographs of 116 prominent women drawn from the interconnected worlds of fashion, modeling, and celebrity. Its numbered title is notably restrained: rather than imposing a thematic slogan, it places emphasis on the accumulated presence of the sitters and on Lindbergh’s sustained engagement with the female portrait.

The book occupies the territory where fashion photography and portraiture meet. Its subjects are public figures, yet the project is structured as a photographic collection rather than a record of a single season, commission, or event. Seen together, these images offer a concentrated account of how Lindbergh photographed women whose faces circulated widely through magazines and popular culture. Individual likenesses remain central, while repetition and succession allow the identities—and the conventions surrounding fame, beauty, and modeling—to register across the book as a whole.

At 354 pages, the volume has the breadth to function as more than a compact portfolio. Its hardcover, approximately 31-centimeter-square format gives the publication the scale of a substantial survey, while English, French, and German text situates it for an international readership. These bibliographic qualities are integral to its character: Untitled 116 presents its subject through the sustained, comparative experience particular to the photobook.

For collectors concerned with the history of fashion and celebrity portraiture, the book marks a defined point in Lindbergh’s publishing career and brings a large body of related work into one volume. Its significance lies not in a claim of rarity, but in the conjunction of photographer, subject, and period: an extensive 2006 publication centered on prominent women and on the overlap between individual portraiture and the image-making systems of fashion and fame.