Portrait+Photographer+2-Patrick+Demarchelier

-Nadja Auermann, Harpers Bazaar, New York, January 1995

-French Vogue, June/July 2008

French-born Patrick Demarchelier is a legend in the world of fashion photography. His career has spanned decades: from the mid 1970s to the present day. A gallery of his photography can be seen at his website (http://demarchelier.com/). In his photographs, Demarchelier plays with the background quite a bit. For instance, in the picture from the June/July 2008 issue of //French Vogue// above, the image of Mont-Saint-Michel behind the model acts as a mechanism to draw the viewer into the picture. Demarchelier also experiments with the angles of his subjects. He tends to lean towards positioning which creates dramatic shadows and highlights, like in the picture of Nadia Auermann above. Overall, Demarchelier's photography has that chic, classic feel to it, and is bound to stand the test of time.