by Ellen von Unwerth
Morning Beauty
Artist: Ellen von Unwerth
Morning Beauty is a colour photograph of Claudia Schiffer, framed in a doorway behind a sweep of pink-striped curtain in a warm, wood-lined modernist house. She stands side-on, drawing the fabric across her body, blonde hair loose, a pair of trainers grounding the picture with a deliberate, offhand wink. Von Unwerth shoots it in soft natural light against the glass and greenery beyond, so the moment feels sunlit and unguarded rather than staged.
Read as fine art, the picture is a study in concealment and play, the curtain both veiling and revealing while the trainers puncture the glamour with humour. The theme is ease, a supermodel caught between poise and mischief, entirely in control of a scene that only pretends to be candid. Von Unwerth’s signature is exactly this reversal, staging beauty while handing the wit and the agency to her subject. The work suits a light-filled, design-led interior where a colour figure study can breathe, and speaks to collectors drawn to fashion photography’s crossover into fine art. Ellen von Unwerth’s photographs are issued as limited editions, each print part of a controlled run.
Size: medium
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