Born 1933 in Paris to parents of Polish origin. Jeanloup Sieff’s interest in photography was first piqued when he received a Photax plastic camera as a birthday gift for his fourteenth birthday. He recalled his holidays in Polish winter resort of Zakopane as a period when photographing newly met girls he got really hooked on photography.
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| Portraits of classic beauties taken by Jeanloup Sieff in the 1960s |
In 1953, Sieff attended the Vaugirard School of Photography in Paris, later on moved to the Vevey School in Switzerland, and in 1954, he was already working as a freelance reporter, leaving aside his brief interest in cinema.
In 1956, Sieff began shooting fashion photography, and in 1958, he joined the Magnum Agency. His work for them made him travel to Italy, Greece, Poland and Turkey. He settled in New York for a number of years in the 1960s, where he worked for Esquire, Glamour, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, becoming extremely popular in America.
Jeanloup Sieff was a practitioner of the photographic art of high fashion, and avowed a fidelity to the frivolous and superficial. His legacy places him in the top rank of fashion, portrait, and art photographers. He won a number of prizes, including the Prix Niepce, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in Paris in 1981 and the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1992. He photographed many celebrities, among them Jane Birkin, Yves Montand, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques-Henri Lartigue,Yves Saint-Laurent, and Rudolf Nureyev. Dancers and nudes were two recurring themes in his works.
Sieff died in Paris in 2000 at the age of 66. His daughter, Sonia Sieff, is a well known photographer also. These stunning black and white are part of his work that he took from the 1960s.
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| Ballet, Paris Opera, 1960 |
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| Claire Motte, Paris, 1960 |
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| Denise Serrault, 1960 |
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| Monique Dutto, 1960 |
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| Pierre Cardin and Ina Balke, 1960 |
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| Self-portrait with Barbara Jeanloup Sieff, 1960 |
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| For Jardin Des Modes, 1961 |
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| For Queen magazine, London, 1961 |
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| Lady smoking cigarette, 1961 |
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| Paris, 1961 |
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| Vienna, 1961 |
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| Anna Carin Bjorck, 1962 |
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| Corset, New York, 1962 |
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| Denise Sarrault, Harper’s Bazaar, 1962 |
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| Ina Balke and Alfred Hitchcock, Harper's Bazaar, 1962 |
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| Ina Balke, 1962 |
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| Astrid Heeren and a suave dude, Palm Beach, 1964 |
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| Astrid Heeren, dress Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner, Palm Beach, Harper's Bazaar, 1964 |
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| Astrid Heeren, Palm Beach, 1964 |
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| China Machado, Jimmy Moore, photographer Hiro and her children, 1964 |
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| Fashion Maxwell Croft, Queen, London, 1964 |
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| Ina Balke, coat Monte-Sano & Pruzan, World's Fair, New York, Harper's Bazaar, 1964 |
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| Jill Kennington for Queen Magazine, England, 1964 |
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| Catherine Deneuve, 1965 |
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| Patty Boyd, 1965 |
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| Sylvie Vartan, Paris, 1965 |
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| Children, 1966 |
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| Jane Birkin, 1966 |
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| Pierre-André Boutang, Paris, 1966 |
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| Twiggy, 1966 |
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| Donna Mitchell in black velvet gaucho-inspired suit, Vogue, October 1967 |
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| Donna Mitchell, 1967 |
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| Twiggy in the bracken, 1967 |
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| Jane Birkin, 1968 |
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| Marisa Berenson and Jeanloup, Vogue, October 1968 |
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| Mia Farrow, 1968 |
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| Barbara Rix, wife of Jeanloup Sieff, 1969 |
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| Catherine Deneuve, 1969 |
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| For Revlon, 1969 |
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| Yves St Laurent, 1969 |
(Photo © Jeanloup Sieff)
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