Manfred Thierry Mugler Photographe

Authors : Manfred Thierry Mugler, Marie Colmant, Florence Brutton

Publishing House: La Martinière

Publication Date: 13 November 2019

Description :In 1988, Thierry Mugler published a portfolio of unpublished photographs that marked their time. “Thierry Mugler Photographer” 2019 takes a hundred images from this first opus and offers others as unpublished as spectacular.

Driven by his borderline inspiration and his quest for the ideal image, Manfred Thierry Mugler unveils a retrospective of his work that is both visionary and spectacular.

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it,” said Ansel Adams. A point of view perfectly illustrated by Manfred Thierry Mugler’s work as an image-maker.

Throughout his career, the visionary artist has established himself with a revolutionary style, through fashion events that were like living paintings. Animated works of art, the result of a brilliant inspiration that the artist was keen to immortalize with his lens, offering his vision of a sublimated world, full of beauty and creativity.

At the border between fashion, art and advertising, his powerful images show women and men confronted with the gigantism of the monuments and settings of his world: the Chrysler Building in New York, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Saharan desert, the countries of the former Soviet bloc …

At the end of the book, Manfred Thierry Mugler offers a travel diary that testifies to the backstage of his work carried out in the four corners of the world; the human adventure and risks incurred by the photographer and his team behind each shot; the power of nature to which his creativity is mixed to bring a unique freshness and strength to his work. Graphic, colorful and out of the ordinary, his universe is expressed here in all its artistic dimension.