David Seidner photographies,

bound in hardcover, with dusjacket, .79pp. ISBN 9780500541609. Trained as a sculptor, Seidner now works exclusively as a photographer. Compiled by the artist for this volume, the images contained here cover a period of ten years, and include fashion work for such couture houses as Saint Laurent and Blass as well as fragmented portraits. Seidner is a contributing editor of Bomb magazine in New York David Seidner was nineteen when his first cover picture was published and twenty-one when the first of many solo exhibitions of his photographs was shown in Paris. Over the following 20 years he created both "commercial" and "artistic" work. In the 1980s he was under a contract with Yves Saint Laurent. His commercial work included fashion shoots for the French and Italian editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, and advertising campaigns for Emmanuel Ungaro, Lanvin, Christian Dior, John Galliano and Bill Blass. The artistic side encompassed shows at the Pompidou Centre and La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York, and the publication of several books. In 1986 he was commissioned by the Mus e des Arts de la Mode in Paris to photograph costumes from its collection. His signature imagery from that period included photographic fragments, paint, shards of glass and reflections. His influence then was the music of John Cage.