Tim Walker: Story teller

Robin Muir

ISBN 10: 0500544204 / ISBN 13: 9780500544204

Published by Thames & Hudson, 2012

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A stunning photography collection from world-renowned fashion photographer Tim Walker, Story Teller showcases his signature fantastic style with some of the biggest names in fashion and contemporary culture. Walker is one of the most exciting photographers of our time, and his flamboyant style--often tongue-in-cheek but always exquisitely executed--places him in the line of brilliant eccentrics from Cecil Beaton to David LaChapelle. Showcasing 170 photographs through Walker's most recent work, the book features many A-listers in fashion and Hollywood, including Tilda Swinton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alber Elbaz. The book includes a foreword by Kate Bush, an introduction by writer Robin Muir, and an afterword by Tim Walker. Seller Inventory # 036097

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tim Walker: Story teller

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Tim Walker is one of the most visually exciting photographers of our time. This book showcases many of his most dazzling images his daydreams turned into photographs, dating from around the last seven years of his career. Some of the biggest names in fashion and contemporary culture are here: Alber Elbaz sporting a pair of rabbit ears; Agyness Deyn in the sand dunes of Namibia; Alexander McQueen and a memento mori of skull and cigarettes; Helena Bonham Carter poised with Ray-Bans and a Diet Coke; Stella Tennant in a pink cloud among the rhododendrons of an English country garden The singer and musician Kate Bush contributes a foreword and Walker himself an afterword, as well as illuminating his pictures throughout with personal observations. This exceptional and beautifully designed overview of a career caught in mid-flow reveals just how much one mans singular vision has influenced contemporary tastes in fashion, beauty, glamour and portraiture.

Review:

Truly magical and otherworldly ... a fascinating insight into [Tim Walker's] creative process. --British Journal of Photography

A tribute to the fashion and portrait photographer ... focuses on his fantastical collaborations for Vogue --Vogue

Celebrates nearly twenty years of groundbreaking work --i-D

Poetry in motion --The Independent

Walker's fairy-tale sets have redefined fashion photography ... mesmerising ... a handsome monograph --The Daily Telegraph

Daydreams on paper ... They do what the best fashion photography does - take you somewhere new --The Herald

A stylish trip down the rabbit hole -Marie Claire

Extravagant in scale and ambition and instantly recognizable for their eye-opening originality, Walker's photographs dazzle with life, colour and humour -Wall Street Journal

If you like your fashion photography dosed with a sprinkling of humour...Tim Walker's exhibition at Somerset House could be just the ticket ... An accompanying coffee-table book is already on sale --The Daily Telegraph

Flamboyant, humorous and surrealist, Walker's instantly-recognisable portraits have included top names in fashion and contemporary culture --Evening Standard

A beautifully quirky edition to your coffee-table collection --The Mayfair Magazine

Story Teller (and the accompanying book published by Thames & Hudson...) is a brilliant summation of Walker's prolific body of work but also a reminder that without those key collaborators and the people sitting for his portraits, the equation would be incomplete --Style Bubble

You can take the stuff of fashion dreams home with you in the Thames & Hudson book --Harper's Baazar

Encountering his images is like falling down Alice's rabbit hole into a magical, otherworldly universe --Elle Decoration

Coinciding with an exhibition at Somerset House, London... the book showcases the photographer's best work to date and includes a foreword from singer Kate Bush. A must-have. --Irish Tatler

The hallucinatory, wildly creative images of British photographer Tim Walker are being doubly celebrated this fall with an exhibition at London s Somerset House and an accompanying book published by Thames & Hudson. Both called Story Teller, they showcase the artist's narrative flair, evoking a fairytale world of baguette biplanes, demonic dolls and cult celebrities. --Vault Magazine

Documenting the flights of fancy of one of the most influential fashion photographers working today, this book showcases his original, stunning and elaborately stage work - a must for every fashionista. --The Mail on Sunday

This is a book for anyone who has a sense of wonder and a belief that to be dazzled is to be enhanced. --The Sunday Times

Extravagant, romantic, eccentric ... one of the most visually exhilarating and prominent fashion photographers in the industry right now --The City Magazine

Leaves one speechless ... the pages of this book present snapshots from within an incredible mind --Felix Online

Takes us on a magical journey. --Toni and Guy

A gorgeous tome ... Get it now, before he gets really famous --Best Books of 2012, The Financial Times

Original, stunning and elaborately staged work a must for every fashionista --You Magazine