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About 'Veruschka' Vera Lehndorff & Holger Trülzsch

A UNIVERSE TO ONESELF With his masterpiece Blow-Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni cemented Vera Lehndorff’s status as fashion-world icon “Veruschka.” From the time of the legendary photos by Richard Avedon, shortly before the film was made, it was self-evident that the top model would be up to the role. In Antonioni’s movie, swinging London’s fashion photographer David Hemmings attempts during a photo shoot to take possession of the woman’s thin, long body, which in its filigree, nearly fragile-seeming proportions always gave off the aura of inapproachability. Solely with the camera’s lens is he able to snatch a moment of this woman’s mystery. Her distinctive elegance… Read more

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