The calendar of the tyre brand Pirelli was presented this Tuesday in Paris and is Emotional – Peter Lindbergh, German photographer chosen for the third time to shoot The Lime (the famous nickname), I wanted this to not to focus only on the perfect bodies but in sensitivity and emotion. "Plundering the very soul of the protagonists,” he explains, they were even more naked than if they were without clothes. “It is another kind of nakedness. More important than parts of the body,” he points out.
The edition of 2017 has, instead of supermodels sculptural, 14 of the most recognized actresses of Hollywood – Kate Winslet, Alicia Vikander, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’, Rooney Mata, Jessica Chastain, Charlotte Rampling, uma Thurman, Lea Seydoux, Zhang Ziyi and Robin Wright and Anastasia Ignatova, a professor of Political Theory at the Moscow State University (the "extraordinary beauty" of this unknown led Lindbergh to promise you, when you met her, that would call for the iconic calendar).
The black-and-white, with skin in the sight, but dressed, with poses less sexy but more natural. "The aim was to portray women in a different way. I did it with actresses that played an important role in my life and to photograph them, I was me closer to them as much as possible," he explained.
"in A time in which women are represented as ambassadors of beauty and perfection, I thought that it would be important to remember that there is a different beauty, more real and authentic, which is not manipulated by advertising or by nothing," explained Lindbergh in Paris, quoted by the Spanish daily El país.
For Lindbergh, the role of the fashion photographers of today, is "freeing the women, and all, of the terror of perfection and youth", and this edition, with less naked and sexiness that other, which is why a manifesto "against the beauty ideal of today, which is a invention commercial".
Helen Mirren, 71 years, stresses the "simplicity" and the "human" section of this calendar. "We are accustomed to images and locations are spectacular, this is the opposite of that", he affirms. Uma Thurman, another of the protagonists, he adds: "it Is important for children to see their mother grow, to get older and be fine with it."
Peter Lindbergh was responsible for the other two editions of the calendar – in 1996, in the desert of El Mirage in California, and in 2002, in the studios of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. In 2014, it was the second photographer of the edition of 50.Anniversary, by Patrick Demarchelier.
This is the 44.Th edition of the calendar, which has 53 years of life but has been suspended more than once due to cuts in financial. In the reverse direction, has had two editions in 1986.
