Shoes, Sex & Surrealism: Guy Bourdin’s Legendary 1970s Fashion Photography

A new monograph celebrates the landmark advertising campaign that revolutionized shoe photography.

Provocateur extraordinaire Guy Bourdin (1928–1991) transformed the art of fashion photography with his landmark collaboration with shoe designer Charles Jourdan. From 1967–1979, he crafted a new vision of the newly liberated woman as a femme fatale w...

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