Publisher's Description
Fashion and Nudes
Photographs by Carli Hermes
144 pages, 10-5/8 x 13', 110 black-and-white and full color
Carli Hermes is one of the truly outstanding young talents in
the field of contemporary fashion and nude photography.
There is no place for either taboo or boredom in his world of
imagery. It is bursting with dynamic motion, energy and thirst
for life, and derives its power from a diverse range of stylistic
resources and visual vocabularies. We find the classical elegance
of nudes and portraits in black-and-white alongside fresh and
playful images in vivid colors, eccentric fantasies and dreamlike
visions. Carli Hermes was one of the first photographers to
experiment with computer manipulation, a stylistic tool he has
used with astonishingly skill in several of his works. His art has
its epic side as well. Elements of cinematic narrative and photographic staging are found throughout his oeuvre.
His photographs are profoundly erotic and highly communicative, and no viewer is left untouched or unmoved by their
emotional, often confrontational style.
'Carli Hermes' photography is an investigation of the sexual
psyche, and the mystery of the tension between body and
mind.' Gerard Wessel, photographer
Born in Holland in 1963, Carli
Hermes attended the School of Photography in The Hague, studied in
England and then, in the late 1980s,
moved back to Amsterdam where he
did work for such commercial
clients as Levi's, Nike, Gap, Mercedes,
BMW, Sony, Swatch and Rene
Lezard. His high-glamour fashion
shoots and sensual-occasionally
even lewd-portraiture has become
a signature.
Carli Hermes has contributed editorial work to Cosmopolitan, Elle,
Esquire, Marie Claire, Max, Dutch,
Playboy, and Black Book, among others. His photography has been
exhibited in Europe, and he has
directed numerous television commercials. In 2000, the photography
institute, the Mirzers Archive,
ranked Hermes fifteenth on its list
of the world's best photographers.