About French photographer, Jeanloup SIEFF (1933-2000)
Jeanloup (Jean Louis) SIEFF was a French fashion photographer. For his first fashion photo in 1952, his girlfriend posed for him and he had drawn the picture that is shown in the photograph himself. When he then received an assignment from the French fashion magazine 'Elle' in the mid-1950s, that was his big breakthrough. For three years he worked there as a freelance photojournalist and fashion photographer. In 1958 he became a member of the Magnum photography agency, but left again in 1959. In 1961, he moved to New York and worked for all the major fashion magazines of the time: 'Look', 'Esquire' and 'Harper's Bazaar'; back in Paris, 'Vogue' and 'Nova' followed.
Photo books by as well as with works byJeanloup SIEFF
- 'Jeanloup Sieff. Hippolyte Bayard' (1968); 'Portfolio' (1971); 'Paris Mon Amour' (1975, 1999, 2007); 'La Vallet de la Mort / Das Tal des Todes. Tagebuch 1' (1978/79); 'Jeanloup Sieff' (1982); 'Photographien' (1983); 'Borinage' (1986); 'Torsi - Torses nus' (1986, 1996); 'Danza' (1996); '40 Jahre Fotografie' (1996, 2008); 'Les indiscrètes. Unpublished photographs' (2009); 'Sieff Fashion' (2012, by Barbara Rix-Sieff and Ira Stehmann); 'Jeanloup Sieff' (2023, in preparation)