Peter Lindbergh: Photoshop and Selfies Are For Losers

WHITE SHIRTS: ESTELLE LÉFEBURE, KAREN ALEXANDER, RACHEL WILLIAMS, LINDA EVANGELISTA, TATJANA PATITZ & CHRISTY TURLINGTON, MALIBU, (1988) ©PETER LINDBERGH. COURTESY OF PETER LINDBERGH, PARIS / GAGOSIAN GALLERY.

'Peter Lindbergh: From Fashion to Reality' opens at the Kunsthalle Munich on April 13, and will be on view until August 27, 2017. The iconic is also one subject of the exhibition “Woman on Street,” along with Garry Winogrand, at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, on view until April 30, 2017.

"I think Selfies are actually the most stupid thing ever," Lindbergh said on Tuesday in Munich before the opening of the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh: From Fashion To Reality" in the Kunsthalle. For example, if you want to make a Selfie with a star, you need to clarify what that means about your self-esteem: "This means that you look at yourself as smaller than that person."

Lindbergh, who is known for his cinematic images, also denounced the portrayal of women in the media: "It has now gone to the dog, as women look in magazines," he said - and this is due to image processing programs like Photoshop, which could erase all references to a lived life. "You can reduce every human being to zero." Beauty means something quite different to the photographer: "If you have the courage to be yourself, then you are beautiful." The task of a fashion photographer is to show exactly this beauty. "Even fashion photographers have a form of responsibility," Lindbergh said, explaining that they may not be regarded as artists but they are highly influential in images of women and also how women see ourselves. via