The photographic appointments #1 : Jean Loup Sieff

Jeanloup Sieff (1933 - 2000) was a French photographer who alternates between fashion, reporting and portraits photography during his career.
He is also known for his portraits of political figures and the entertainment world, but also for his landscapes, as well as for his nudes and his use of wide angle and very wide angle lenses (Leica Super-Angulon 21 mm) !!!!
He worked 40 years, mostly in black and white. Developing his own photographs, he initiated a style.
He was also a fashion photographer and is followed by his daughter Sonia.
Jeanloup Sieff was born in Polish familly. A former student of the Chaptal and Decour High School, he studied literature and studied photography at Vaugirard.

It was first published in 1950 at the magazine Photo-Revue. His first series of fashion was realized two years later, during his years of philosophy studies, with a model from Fath whom he tackles in the street. Between 1953 and 54, for seven months, he took courses at the School of Photography of Vevey. At the end of this training he started as a freelance photographer. Subsequently, he worked for ELLE in the general information section and moved quickly to fashion photography.
Jeanloup Sieff photographed the greatest models of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Dorian Leigh, and at the end of his career, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Simone D'Aillencourt with whom he often worked, the "superb" - in his words - Ivy Nicholson and Denise Sarrault, of whom she says that "it was my lucky charm" following the series of fashion that Jeanloup Sieff realizes in Monte-Carlo in April 1960; Thereafter, they will work together again several times, again for the Jardin des Modes, but also for Harper's Bazaar. He also worked with the protégé of David Bailey, the then-known model Jean Shrimpton for the American Vogue, Hiroko Matsumoto the star-mannequin of Cardin or Nico before it was known. He also photographed nineteen-year-old Jane Birkin for Harper's Bazaar.

Jeanloup Sieff joined Magnum in 1958 and left it the following year. He then won the Niépce Prize for a report on the Borinage in Belgium. In the early 1960s, he joined Frank Horvat in New York and shared a studio with him for six months. At the same time, Jeanloup Sieff began his collaboration with Beatrix Miller and Norman Parkinson as well as David Hamilton as artistic director with British magazine Queen (shortly afterwards), followed shortly by English photographers Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy and many others. During the same period he also worked with the Americans; Under contract with Ladies Home Journal, Sieff is also published in the Harper's Bazaar on numerous occasions. From 1963, he also regularly collaborated with British Vogue. Other magazines such as Anglo-Saxon Glamor or Nova will publish their photos.

He photographed the couturier Yves Saint Laurent for an advertisement in 1970; This photo then made scandal. The following year, he made the cover of Photon.

In 1972, he was invited to the Rencontres d'Arles, where the film Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Jeanloup Sieff were presented by Michel Tournier.
In 1997, he began work on the premises of the First World War.
Jeanloup Sieff died in Paris at the age of 66.