Peter Lindbergh valuation
German fashion photographer, working mainly in black and white, whose 1990 Vogue cover opened the era of the supermodel.
Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was born Peter Brodbeck in Lissa, now Leszno in Poland, and grew up in Duisburg, where he worked as a window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten department stores.
What a work by Peter Lindbergh is worth
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Bio
Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was born Peter Brodbeck in Lissa, now Leszno in Poland, and grew up in Duisburg, where he worked as a window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten department stores. He studied art in Berlin and Krefeld, turned to photography in 1971 and joined Stern magazine, alongside Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Hans Feurer. His picture of Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington, photographed together for the January 1990 cover of British Vogue, is often taken as the start of the supermodel era. He photographed the Pirelli Calendar three times, in 1996, 2002 and 2017, made films and album covers, and preferred black and white throughout.
His prints come to market as gelatin silver and pigment prints, usually in editions, in several sizes, and signed. A buyer will want the edition size and number, the year of printing as well as of the photograph, the signature and any certificate, and the provenance through a gallery or a charity sale. The Peter Lindbergh Foundation in Paris looks after the archive. Large prints should be checked for creases, scuffs and damage to the surface, and framed works for fading.
At a glance
- Born
- 23 November 1944, Leszno
- Died
- 3 September 2019, Paris
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