French photographer Guy Bourdin has been credited for bringing death, violence, and fetishism into the pages of Vogue. In Bourdin’s photographs, Surrealism à la his friend and mentor Man Ray is fused with flawless finishes, and brought into a post-war consumerist context. Ever since the BBC broadcasted the documentary Dreamgirls: The Photographs of Guy Bourdin in 1991, and the Victoria & Albert Museum hos...
