THE UNTAMED EYE, Monograph

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Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
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Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
Date of Photograph

Published July 2018
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Publisher: MW Editions
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http://stephaniepfrienderstylander.com

Evocative photographs capturing sweeping, cinematic fashion stories and intimate portraits of celebrities, all tinged with the photographer's gritty realism. Big closeups, grainy film, deep dark-lined eyes, creased foreheads and dusty landscapes seem sensual and erotic. From a very young, unknown Kate Moss to rock legend Keith Richards, "my important pictures happen when I get into a 'dance' with the subject, this is the part that is untamed, and for me the most interesting." French Vogue, "intense and poetic", Spanish Vogue, "iconic imagery, capturing what is hidden behind the character."

Biography

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander was born in New York and apprenticed under the celebrated photographer Art Kane. She began photographing fashion for editorial clients such as Glamour, Elle, GQ, Interview, and Harper’s Bazaar in the 1990s, which led to portrait assignments of prominent actors and musicians. Pfriender Stylander’s photographs for magazines and advertisements in the 1990s and 2000s celebrate a sensuality and grittiness inspired by the French New Wave cinema and she aims for revealing character and and psychological truth in her work.
Awards

Pfriender Stylander's photographs have been included at AIPAD, Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Photo London, Photo Shanghai, Barcelona’s Festival International de la Photo de Mode, and are housed in the Nicola Erni Collection and other private collections worldwide. Her work has received numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, International Photography Awards, and The Lucie Foundation. She is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and an Associated of Science at Endicott College, Massachusetts. In 2020, Pfriender Stylander had a joint exhibition with Louise Dahl-Wolfe, ‘2 Women of Style’ at the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York. In March 2021, Pfriender Stylander had a solo exhibition, ‘New York City Lockdown’ with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris. Opening March 18 - May 29, 2021. She is represented by the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Munich and Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris. Pfriender Stylander lives with her husband in downtown New York City.