Nick Knight

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Photographer Nick Knight has been at the vanguard of progressive image making for the past three decades. As a fashion photographer, he is one of the world's most influential and visionary image makers. He is renowned for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with the world's top couturiers, advertising work for major fashion brands, and award-winning editorials for premier publications. Nick Knight is the long-awaited mid-career retrospective of his work, from 1990 to the present day. This lush volume with three eight-page gatefolds includes an incredible array of work, including images for Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Levi Strauss, and Yohji Yamamoto, British and American Vogue, W, V, i-D, and Visionaire magazines, and from his Web site, SHOWstudio.com.

Nick Knight has won numerous awards for his editorial work for the world's most prestigious fashion publications as well as for style, fashion, and advertising projects for major couture houses and fashion brands. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, the International Center of Photography, and the Kobe Fashion Museum, Japan. He has produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London. His long-standing commitment to experimenting with the latest technologies and creating images never seen before led Knight to launch his award-winning Web site SHOWstudio.com in 2000, which has spearheaded a fashion revolution and established fashion film as the new way to communicate clothes. He has also published three books of his work: Skinhead, Nicknight, and Flora. He lives with his wife and their three children in London.

"A visual feast by the groundbreaking British fashion photographer Nick Knight. The book features collaborative work with Bjork, Gareth Pugh and Massive Attack, and memorable editorial shoots from Vogue." -- The Independent (UK), "One of the Top Ten Fashion Books of the Year"