World-renowned photographer Ellen von Unwerth has exclusively partnered with French fashion house Lacoste and their new collaboration with Polaroid to bring you 36 original Polaroid prints, shot entirely on a limited-edition Lacoste x Polaroid 600 Instant camera, currently on display at Lacoste’s retail store in Soho.
One lucky bidder will receive the 36 one-of-a-kind Polaroid prints (with one Polaroid print signed by Ellen von Unwerth herself) displayed on a premium cork board with one of Ellen’s polaroid prints as the backdrop (framed in a white shadow box with a glam cover), along with the limited-edition Lacoste x Polaroid 600 Instant camera (also signed by Ellen), which has only been used by Ellen for this exhibition.
Artist: Ellen on Unwerth
Title: Lacoste x Polaroid - A collection of Polaroids by Ellen von Unwerth
Medium: Polaroids
Each polaroid is 3.5”W x 4.2”H
1 Polaroid will be signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
Polaroid collection will be displayed on a corkboard-like material and framed in a shadow box with a glass cover.
Ellen von Unwerth, born 1954 in Germany, gained wide attention with her sensual Guess campaign in the early 1990s, followed by campaigns for Absolut, Agent Provocateur, A.P.C., Aston Martin, Baccarat, Belvedere, Chanel, Chantal Thomass, Crazy Horse, David Morris, Diesel, Dior, Elisabetta Franchi, Ferragamo, G-Star, Guerlain, H&M, Hysteric Glamour, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste, L’Oréal, MAC Cosmetics, Mary Katrantzou, Mercedes-Benz, Miu Miu, Opel, Revlon, Rolex, Shiseido, Tommy Hilfiger, Veuve Cliquot, Victoria’s Secret, and many more.
She is a regular contributor to magazines all over the world, like Cosmopolitan, Egoïste, ELLE, Glamour, i-D, Interview, Lula, Numéro, Paper Magazine, Playboy, Stern, The Face, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many international Vogue editions (American, French, German, Italian, Russian). Furthermore she directed short films for clients like Azzedine Alaïa, Dior, Guess, and Katherine Hamnett, and a range of commercials and music videos. Her book projects are an important part of her career: Her first book, Snaps, was published in 1994, followed by Wicked (1998), Couples (1999), the photo-novella Revenge (2003), Omahyra & Boyd (2005), Fräulein (2009), DieSpieler (2010), the photo-novella The Story of Olga (2012), and lately Heimat (2017). Her works have been exhibited worldwide, and are part of various collections. Her exhibition Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women was created for Fotografiska Stockholm in 2018 and it was one of the opening exhibitions at Fotografiska New York.
Von Unwerth won several prizes, amongst others the first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography in 1991, a LUCIE award for her career achievement in Fashion Photography in October 2019, and a Royal Photographic Society award in 2020.