Wicked with Adriana Lima

Published by Te Neues Publishing Company, 1998, 13.7"x9.8"x0.3"; ISBN 3-88814-899-5

text from Wicked

Ellen Von Unwerth's startling black and white images of Brazilian beauty Adriana Lima aren't just wicked--they're also playful, artistic, erotic, imaginative, and inspired. Focusing on Lima's perfectly contoured body, Von Unwerth captures her in a variety of poses and moods. Whether she's cavorting in front of the camera like a young fawn or assuming the stern posture of a dominatrix, Lima is both pure fantasy and all woman. Perhaps it is Von Unwerth's own background as a model that gives her the ability to create a comfortable setting in which her subjects can blossom. Says American Photo, "Von Unwerth seems less of an auteur directing her subjects than a co-conspirator who intimately knows the inner lives of these girls who want to have fun."

Ellen Von Unwerth is widely recognized as one of the most premier photographers in the fashion world. She began her career as a model, but soon found herself behind the camera. Her work regularly appears in Vogue, Face, and Arena, and she is the author of Snaps.

Images are presented in the order in which they appear in the book.


from http://maxwelld.livejournal.com/tag/models:adriana_lima


from Celebs Gone Wild (larger version is available here & here)


from http://tetes-a-tetes.blogspot.com/2006_04_04_tetes-a-tetes_archive.html
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from http://www.schirmer-mosel.de/PressemeldungenD/Show12UnwerthWicked.pdf


from Celebs Gone Wild (larger version is available here)


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from http://www.schirmer-mosel.de/PressemeldungenD/Show12UnwerthWicked.pdf
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from Celebs Gone Wild (larger version is available here)


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image in book is cropped to show only below the chest
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text from January/February 1999 American Photo

"I was working in the studio, and told the stylist that I'd found a girl and I think she's incredible--at the end of the shoot let's take some clothes and do a story on her. He said, 'Oh yeah, I just bought shoes and stockings.' As Adriana is Brazilian, she is very confident with herself, even when she's naked." -- Ellen Von Unwerth

text from http://www.hintmag.com/chichappens/chichappens9-23-98.php

Fans of Ellen Von Unwerth's girl-on-girl erotic imagery will be licking their lips over her new book, Wicked, which stars Brazilian model Adriana Lima playing out Von Unwerth's seductress-as-witch fantasies. Why should Helmut Newton have the monopoly on photographs of naked women in stilettos? -- Horacio Silva

text from http://www.photoeye.com/catalogues/98holy1.pdf (Winter 1999 Photo-eye)

This oversized and uniquely designed collection draws on Von Unwerth's own experiences as a model, creating an intimate and Wicked look at Adriana Lima. In images more collaborative than voyeuristic, and deeply erotic, Von Unwerth and Lima play at badness, giving free reign to the most sensitive sexual organ--the imagination.