He did not care for superficial imperfections he turned his gaze into the depths of people. Marta Ortega says in the prologue of ‘Raw Beauty’ –A book that collects 22 interviews conducted by Michael Benson with people who knew and worked with Lindbergh– that “Peter managed to bring out the best version of whoever stood in front of his objective. Courtesy Peter Lindbergh Foundation, Paris

Already at night, a dinner, to which they attended famous faces from the world of art and fashion: Naomi Campbell, Luca Guadagnino, Pierpaolo Piccioli, David Chipperfield, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Jon Kortajarena, Esther Cañadas … Karen Elson, Los Angeles, 1997. Marta Ortega was accompanied by the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and Pablo Isla, whom the ‘tsarina of Inditex’ it will happen to the front of the empire created by Amancio Ortega. On Wednesday morning there was an inaugural visit to the exhibition. It was he who made the photographic report of his wedding in 2018. The project has been organized thanks to personal commitment (and financing) of Marta Ortega, the next president of Inditex and a great friend of Peter Lindbergh. Two silos for coffee and shop have been recovered and a space with a very avant-garde aesthetic has been created with black containers. From this Saturday until February 28, 2022, the sample can be visited, free of charge, in an industrial warehouse of the Battery dock in the port of La Coruña, whose remodeling has been carried out by the architect Elsa Urquijo. Now those untold stories arrive in Spain with the original montage. The show, which opened at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf in 2020, has traveled through Germany and Italy. But died suddenly, at age 74, in September 2019 and the project became posthumous. A self-curated exhibition by Lindbergh himself, a very personal look at his work. In 2017 he embarked on an ambitious project, ‘Untold Stories’: a retrospective of his forty-year career, summarized in 161 images.

Cortesía Peter Lindbergh Foundation, París Linda Evangelista, Michaela Bercu y Kirsten Owen, Pont-à-Mousson, 1988. One of his latest works, a special issue of ‘Vogue’ UK in 2019, ‘Forces for Change’, featuring Meghan Markle as a guest editor. Always smiling and good-natured, with his inseparable cap and looking over his glasses, he has created images that have gone down in history. Without intending it, created the top models of the 90s: Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawforfd, Tatjana Patitz … But instead of portraying them with makeup and their best clothes, she did it on the beach in Santa Monica, with baggy white shirts, laughing casually, or at the New York streets in iconic black and white snapshot.

Images of Women II by Peter Lindbergh