Peter Lindbergh: Selected Works 1996–1998 isolates a tightly defined period in the photographer’s work. Published by Assouline in 1999, immediately after the years named in its title, the book presents the material as a contemporary portfolio rather than a distant retrospective. Its temporal focus gives the volume a clear documentary value: it records how Lindbergh’s practice appeared at the close of the 1990s, through photographs selected in close proximity to their making.

The subject is fashion photography, but the catalog record also places the book within portraiture, particularly images of women, models, and celebrities. Lindbergh’s established black-and-white approach draws these categories together. Fashion, personality, and photographic form are not treated as separate concerns; the sitter remains central, while clothing and public identity become elements within the portrait. The resulting selection offers a useful view of how editorial fashion imagery can also operate as sustained portrait study.

At 304 pages, the book has sufficient scope to develop this concentrated account without turning into a career survey. The restriction to 1996–98 is therefore one of its defining qualities. Rather than summarizing Lindbergh through a familiar handful of pictures, it frames a specific body of recent work and allows relationships among fashion commissions, recognizable subjects, and black-and-white portraiture to emerge across an extended publication.

For a serious photobook collection, its interest rests not on claims of scarcity but on precision of context. This is an English-language, hardcover Assouline publication issued in the year following the period it covers. It preserves a period-specific editorial construction of Lindbergh’s work and offers a substantial reference point for collectors concerned with late-20th-century fashion photography, the photographic representation of women, and the place of portraiture within commercial image-making.