Cathleen Naundorf

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Cathleen Naundorf

Cathleen Naundorf (born April 13, 1968 in Weißenfels ) is a German art director and photographer . She lives in London and Paris .

Life

Naundorf moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985 . From 1990 to 1992 she studied in Munich at the municipal technical college for design with a focus on graphics , painting and photography .

From 1990 Naundorf assisted in internationally oriented photo studios in Munich, Berlin , Paris, New York City and Singapore .

In the early 1990s she traveled to countries such as Mongolia , Greenland , Iceland and Brazil as a reportage photographer on behalf of publishers such as Bruckmann , Bucher , Reich, Knaur and Nymphenburger . She lived and worked mainly with ethnic groups. As a result of her work, among others with indigenous peoples like the Yanomamis , with Mongols and Kazakhs in the Altai high mountains or with shamans in Yakutia in Siberia , several publications were created . Publications in magazines such as National Geography, Geo, Globo.

A meeting and a joint trip with the Dalai Lama explains Naundorf's social commitment to Tibet and Amnesty International , which was also expressed in some reports.

From 1989, stimulated by the meeting and a subsequent long-term friendship with Horst P. Horst , Cathleen Naundorf began to be interested in fashion photography. In 1997 she began taking photos for Condé Nast backstage during various Paris fashion shows . In 1998 she settled permanently in Paris. From 1998 to 2000 Cathleen Naundorf worked together with the Haute Couture sticker François Lesage on the project Les coulisses de la mode et de la Haute Couture .

From 2000 to 2004 she was a photo journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung for their current fashion reports. From 2004 to 2011 Cathleen Naundorf worked on various photo series under the working title “Un rêve de mode”, focusing on fashion houses such as Dior , Chanel , Gaultier , Elie Saab and Armani . Her collaboration with fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld , Philip Tracy, Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix gave her access to their collections. The result of these 150 photo series was published in 2012 by Prestel Verlag in a limited edition under the title The Polaroids of Cathleen Naundorf .

A collaboration with the Reunion Musees National RMN resulted in several photo shoots with a mixture of French historical architecture and Parisian fashion. Among other things, five Grand Palais photo series and one each in Malmaison Castle and one in the Moulage du Louvre were created. From 2010 she worked closely with the Musée Rodin in Paris and the Musée Rodin de Meudon in Meudon . Your work was u. a. published in Tatler , Harpers Bazaar and Vogue . In 2010 Naundorf began working with Parisian jewelry stores such as Chanel, Dior, Bulgari , Cartier , Chaumet, Van Cleef & Arpels and Boucheron. In 2012 Naundorf worked with the interior designer Didier Gomez and the Hotel Sofitel Paris. (Haute Couture Suit, Restaurant)

Since 2012 Naundorf has been working with Valentino Garavani on various projects such as “An italian story” or “The NY City Ballet”. 2012–2013 Justine Picardie engaged Cathleen Naundorf for Harpers Bazaar, Great Britain . Photo series were created in London, Paris and Bangkok. An exotic photo series was taken in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, as well as photos in the Royal Palace in Bangkok with the private haute couture dresses of the Thai Queen Sirikit under her patronage.

In 2014 photo assignments for Somerset House and the Victoria and Albert Museum followed . Your photographs are u. a. in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Musée Rodin , Paris.

In 2016 she won the American Photography Award.

Exhibitions and collections (selection)

Web links

Commons : Cathleen Naundorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Cathleen Naundorf: Biography (in English) on the page cathleennaundorf.com , last accessed on September 20, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Irmgard Sedler (ed.): Cathleen Naundorf , in this: Cathleen Naundorf - art + fashion , illustrated accompanying document for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum im Kleihues-Bau from October 2010 to January 2011, Kornwestheim: Museums der City of Kornwestheim, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813806-1-3 , [without page number]
personal data
SURNAME Naundorf, Cathleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and art director
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels