Ellen Von Unwerth - Lana Del Rey

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Lana Del Rey

Ellen Von Unwerth - Monica Belluci & Vincent Cassel

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Monica Belluci & Vincent Cassel

Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer

Ellen Von Unwerth - Vanessa Paradis

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Vanessa Paradis

Ellen Von Unwerth - Nadja Auermann

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Nadja Auermann

Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna, Berlin

Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Rihanna

Ellen Von Unwerth - Kate Moss & David Bowie 1

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Kate Moss & David Bowie 1

Ellen Von Unwerth - Brad Pitt

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Brad Pitt

Ellen Von Unwerth - Twins on Byke

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Twins on Byke

Ellen Von Unwerth - Vanessa Paradis

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Vanessa Paradis

Ellen Von Unwerth - Mask

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Mask

Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer

Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer Curtains

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Claudia Schiffer Curtains

Ellen Von Unwerth - First Lesson

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Ellen Von Unwerth - First Lesson

Ellen Von Unwerth - Naomi Rollers

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Naomi Rollers

Ellen Von Unwerth - Kate Moss

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Kate Moss

Ellen Von Unwerth - Bye Bye Paris 2007

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Ellen Von Unwerth - Bye Bye Paris 2007

About  Ellen Von Unwerth:


Ellen Von Unwerth was born in 1954 in Germany. She started her career as a fashion model. During the mid 80s she decided to end her modeling career and move behind the camera to become a photographer and director. Today she shoots fashion, editorial and advertising photographs in addition to directing music videos. Von Unwerth’s work is vibrant, candid, and incredibly sexy. But does the mere fact of having a woman behind the lens shooting deshabillé girls in fishnet and feathers somehow assume a correctness automatically denied a male photographer? “The difference is that I don’t stand behind the camera drooling,” says Unwerth. In 1998 and 2005 she was listed as one of the Most Important People in Photography by American Photo Magazine. She produced images for numerous advertising campaigns for the biggest brands like Victoria’s Secret, Chanel, Clarins Paris, Anna Sui or Van Cleef and Arpels. In 2001 Ellen was the principal photographer of an Armani exhibition in the famous Guggenheim Museum in New York. Alongside the work of masters like Lartigue and Avedon and a number of reportage photographers, Von Unwerth cites Helmut Newton as an influence. “I think Newton is interesting because he uses technique, but ultimately it is the story and the models and the idea that is more important in his work, and what keeps the pictures from becoming démodé. Techniques date very fast.” Less might be more. Either way, it’s probably best to let her pictures, intuitively smart, sassy and provocative, speak on her behalf. Like she says “Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed” like her work.