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Endpoint: Alex Chatelain



created on: 4/02/2021
by: Lo55o (12474)
 
 

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Alex Chatelain (born 1941) is a French fashion photographer.
He did a lot of work for the European editions of Vogue in the 70s and 80s.
He is the author of Grace: Thirty Years Of Fashion At Vogue (2002).

The son of an American correspondent for Le Figaro, he’d come to New York straight out of boarding school to be a painter in 1963, but mostly chased models and went to parties at clubs; he even gained entrée to Jerry Schatzberg’s studio fetes. He quickly decided it might be more satisfying, both sexually and financially, to work as a fashion photographer than a painter. A model, Alberta Tiburzi, introduced Chatelain to a Bazaar shooter named Jimmy Moore.

Chatelain got a job building a new studio for Hiro, who had to move his Bazaar-centric operation to a floor above his old one when his studio partner Avedon went to Vogue. Chatelain shuttled between the two, assisting the former and printing for the latter.

Back in Paris in 1967, he’d met Demarchelier and Reinhardt at a party hosted by Dorian Leigh. “Patrick was working for Marie France,” he says, “and we’d run into each other at the lab. I started working for French Vogue when Bourdin had a fight with them and a spot opened up. I got it, so I was the one they looked up to. Patrick was always showing me his pictures. Then, all of a sudden, they were in New York.”

Chatelain left the Atelier, but stayed in Europe, where he worked mostly for British Vogue, edited by Beatrix Miller. They worked out of the two big and two small studios in its Hanover Square offices.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12474)
on : 04/02/2021