Mocafico Numéro

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In 1999, pioneering fashion editor and stylist Babeth Djian founded Numéro, the now famous Paris magazine with an unmistakable aesthetic that boldly combines fashion with contemporary art. Guido Mocafico has photographed provocative still-lifes for Numéro since its first issue, and this comprehensive six-volume publication contains all this work to date. Every month Babeth gives Mocafico carte blanche for the closing pages of Numéro, a rare privilege in today's advertising-driven fashion magazines. In response he creates radical still-lifes (of objects including perfume bottles, shoes, watches and jewelry) that incorporate the genres of architecture, landscape and nude photography, and make comparable work in other magazines look like uninspired product shots. The experimental forum offered to Mocafico by Numéro facilitates his maverick, sometimes critical view of contemporary vanity, and has given birth to some of his larger influential series including "Medusa," "Movement," "Serpens" and "Stilleven."

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Guido Mocafico was born in Switzerland in 1962, and today works in Switzerland and Paris. A specialist in still-life photography, he contributes regularly to leading fashion publications including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and V Magazine. Mocafico has photographed advertising campaigns for luxury brands including Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, and his books at Steidl include Venenum (2005), Medusa (2006), Serpens (2008), Movement (2008), and Stilleven (2012).

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