Jeanloup Sieff
Overview
Photographer Jeanloup Sieff was known his sensuous black-and-white nudes, portraits of artists and politicians, fashion photography, and surrealist-inflected landscapes. Influenced by the new-wave filmmakers of the 1950s, Sieff developed a style characterised by clean, modern elegance, capturing long bare backs, sumptuous curves, and ladies’ lingerie. “I have always maintained there is no such thing as art,” he once said. “There are only artists, producing things that give them pleasure, doing so under some compulsion, perhaps even finding the process painful, but deriving a masochistic joy from it!” Sieff worked for Elle and the Magnum Agency, and his work has appeared in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, among other publications.
Featured Exhibitions

Judy, New York, 1965
Gelatin silver print / printed late 1970s

Le dos en dentelle. Marina Schiano, robe Yves Saint-Laurent, Vogue, Paris, 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print

Par un jour pluvieux, Paris, 1975
Vintage gelatin silver print

Le duvet (Lingerie noire de dos), Paris, 1978
Vintage gelatin silver print

Derrière Anglais, Paris, 1969
Gelatin silver print

Hommage à Seurat, New York, 1965
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s