François-Marie Banier: Vive la Vie

By François-Marie Banier

With his unique talent for capturing emotions using lenses, colors and words, artist Fran ois-Marie Banier inspires both his subjects and viewers to conqu rir le r ve (conquer the dream). Vive la Vie is an intimate monograph resulting from a collaboration between Banier and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Based on a series of sessions arranged by von Furstenberg with model Natalia Vodianova, the images are layered with visual and emotional complexity. By combining his various skills--photography, painting and writing--into individual artworks, Fran ois-Marie Banier creates narratives that compel both the eye and the mind. Vodianova exposes her true, unmasked self, creating a blank canvas on which raw womanhood is revealed, far from the stereotypes of fashion photography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865218210
• ISBN13: 9783865218216
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Steidl Photography International
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.4" x 9.8"