Visionaire 28 – The Bible, 1999
Limited Edition
As New Condition in Original Shrinkwrap
From Visionaire: Our millennium issue: ''the greatest
story ever told'' retold in images by modern-day artists and photographers. The
intent was to make an issue that was visually provocative but not blasphemous
or gratuitously shocking. We worked closely with Dr. Royal Rhodes, professor of
religion at Kenyon
College, who helped us
excerpt passages from the King James Bible. Mario Testino photographed Adam and
Eve (dressed in Martine Sitbon and poised to prune with Hermes hedge clippers);
Wolfgang Tillmans contributed the Crucifixion; Andreas Gursky's image of a rave
became the Exodus; Mary Ellen Mark envisioned a modern day Mary and Joseph; and
Steven Meisel imagined the Apocalypse in a series of eerily foreboding fashion
images inspired by the painter Odd Nerdrum. Limited Edition of 6000 numbered copies.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ITEM IS WITHOUT CASE.
Visionaire is a multi-format album of
fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Since its
inception in the Spring of 1991, Visionaire has offered a forum for works by
both famous and emerging artists from around the world as well as personalities,
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