Cathleen Naundorf Books

WOMEN OF SINGULAR BEAUTY
CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE
BY CATHLEEN NAUNDORF

Photographs and Art Direction by Cathleen Naundorf
Foreword by Jérôme Neutres

For many than two decades, Naundorf has used her expert photographic skills to pay homage to the haute couture aesthetic.
Combining her experiences in travel, art, and photojournalism, Naundorf elaborately arranges each detail of her images using storyboards and extensively researches the lighting for every image. Captures with analogue large – format cameras, each photograph is a singular vision suggesting romance, surrealism, exoticism, and above all else, fantasy.

Jérôme Neutres is the director of strategy and development of the Réunion des Musées nationaux and the Grand Palais and president of the Musée du Lux­embourg, Paris. He curated in 2018 the Irving Penn exhibition in the Grand Palais.

“The artist’s book is a creation in itself, a piece of work developed by the artist based on a selection of her works. Cathleen Naundorf has published several artists’ books. Through its mastery and the perfection of its works, this new opus, Women of Singular Beauty: Chanel Haute Couture, is the product of a mature photographer who has attained the goals she has been setting herself for twenty years. I was fortunate enough to see the outline for this book and to look over the big notebook in which the artist had glued her images along with drawings and words. It is a dream of a book, showing images of dreams. These dreams occur with eyes wide open, and that is why they are called “works of art.”
Jerôme Neutres

“Somebody like it Haute – Naundorf’s signature style celebrates dramatic design.“ 
Smithsonian , USA

“Passione Polaroid- When the great vision of haute couture struggle to fit into a shot , German artist Cathleen Naundorf captures them in large format images, almost suspended in time. Every photograph has a story behind it and in the end you collect an enormous number of fascinating stories.“
Book Moda , Italy

“For ever a splendour – a manifestation to elegance.“
Icon Die Welt , Germany

“Collecting her experiences in travel, art and photojournalism, Naundorf organizes every detail of her images meticulously ,using scrips and investigates the lighting of each photograph.“ 
La Fotografia , Spain

“Polas haute couture – the photographer Cathleen Naundorf is bringing out a beautiful book that carries well his name, both by subject and by technique. Going through the book you will be seduced and absorbed by the fantasy and deepness.”
Le Figaro, France

“Photographer Cathleen Naundorf, a protégée of master lens Horst P. Horst, has captured countless couture collections – from the work of Jean Paul Gaultier to John Galliano – with her large format camera. “
Harper’s Bazaar, USA

“Installed in France, german Cathleen Naundorf photographer who started in photojournalism, formed by Horst P.Horst, brings out today a beautiful book who gives us to see the nobles of haute couture.”
Le Monde, France

“Without tricks. Beyond usual fashion photography Cathleen Naundorf exposes her models as cloudy dreams of silk to the nagging disintegration of time “
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany