ELLEN VON UNWERTH

One of the most renowned contemporary female photographers, Ellen Von Unwerth perfected her craft and built a tremendously successful career, gaining worldwide praise for her depiction and empowerment of women as subjects rather than objects. At the beginning of the 1990s, when Hollywood actresses dominated magazine covers around the world, the German photographer contributed to the birth of the “Supermodel” cult. Ellen Von Unwerth is the photographer who helped launch the supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the early 1990s, first in a picture for ELLE and later with the Guess campaign that gave them both a big break in the fashion industry.