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This quietly eloquent tribute site to late French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin is very much a work of art on its own merit, though a casual glance through the lovingly collected galleries of Bourdin's ouvre as a shoe photographer for publications like Vogue shows that his concupiscent feel for the subject matter was a driving force in and out of the studio. And considering that his work spanned the 50s to the 80s and had such a fierce erotic, fetish-tinged edge, it makes me wonder how many Wellbutrin enemas the current crop of Vogue editors have had to make their new selections so dry. V. Blue

Guy Bourdin (guybourdin.fsnet.co.uk)
See also: Guy Bourdin (guybourdin.org)

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