Vincent Peters (*1969) has met and photographed them all - for VOGUE, ELLE, Numéro, The Face, GQ, Esquire und Harper ́s Bazaar - the icons of our day: Monica Bellucci, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz or Charlize Theron and the such. Peter´s mostly female protagonists playfully pose in the way of the past. But he doesn't simply capture their beauty, but our imagination of them, those projections of our yearnings that define society itself.
The interplay of light and shadow and pure setting of the Star-portraits remind us of the glamorous 40´s of the silver screen. They are an homage to the studio photographers of Hollywood like George Hurell, one of the best-known characters of Old-Hollywood-Glamour à la „Film Noir“: Vincent Peters creates Idols by portraying them. His analogue technique oscillates between experiment and reference.

Are those iconic portrayals the expectation of the public, or do we detect traces of an individual and personal moment in their perfection, not filling this aura. like in the fragile picture of Kim Basinger or the sensitive-vulnerable Alexander McQueen? Peters masters the interplay between personal image, outer perception, interpretation and representation.


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