Bruce Weber

Bruce Weber was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1946. He studied with Lisette Model at The New School for Social Research in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, Weber began photographing ads and commercials for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. He became the preeminent photographer of the fashion industry in the 1980’s and continues to be one of the world’s most popular and influential photographers. His photographs have since then appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Life and Andy Warhol’s Interview, among many others. This fall he has worked with campaigns for Gucci, Ralph Lauren and Armani. Weber has exhibited at the 1987 Whitney Biennial in New York City, Le Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, and National Portrait Gallery in London, among others. His photographs are in the permanent collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and Le Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris.