Min och Emines kära vän och trogna medarbetare i Café, Brad Kroenig, tillägnas i höst en hel bok av Karl Lagerfeld.
Metamorphoses of an American ges ut på tyska konstbokförlaget Steidl och innehåller 768(!) sidor fotografier på Brad.
Ur pressreleasen:
In Metamorphoses of an American Karl Lagerfeld traces the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig, once an unknown but now the world’s most sought-after male model.
Lagerfeld discovered Kroenig in 2003, took his first photographs of him in Biarritz, and since then has observed him through his photographic lens, month by month.
In hundreds of photographs Lagerfeld explores Kroenig’s evolution from a young “All American Boy” into a professional model conscious of the subtleties of facial and corporeal expression. These photographs are however not simply documentation; rather Lagerfeld and Kroenig work together to create a new persona, one which Kroenig expresses without losing a sense of his own self.
Lagerfeld selects a spectrum of literary and cultural references for Kroenig to interpret: we see him as James Dean, as Rudolph Valentino, as a Gatsby-like figure from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and as Lieutenant Pinkerton from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.
Först Café, sedan det här. Det går bra nu för Brad Kroenig.