Full Description
Winner of The British Book Design and Production Award, Exhibition Catalogues 2024.
Over the past 30 years, Sir Elton John and David Furnish have carefully built an unrivalled collection of photography. Remarkable in its range and depth, it's a who's who of photographer and subject ranging across disciplines from fashion and film to landscape and reportage.
This book presents 150 of the most important photographs from artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei.
Featuring an afterword from Sam Taylor-Johnson and an in-depth interview with Sir Elton John and David Furnish by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, as well as curatorial insights into themes within the collection - Fragile Beauty shares images that are beautiful, dynamic, striking, sometimes disturbing but always inspiring.
Contents
Foreword -- Curator's Preface: Duncan Forbes, Newell Harbin and Lydia Caston -- Elton John and David Furnish: Interviewed by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament -- Fashion: Lydia Caston -- Stars of Stage, Screen and Studio: Newell Harbin -- Desire: Daniel Slater -- Reportage: Duncan Forbes -- The American Scene: Newell Harbin -- Fragile Beauty: Duncan Forbes -- Constructed Images: Lydia Caston -- Towards Abstraction: Duncan Forbes -- Afterward: Sam Taylor-Johnson
