--- title: How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour description: Peter Lindbergh, who died on Sept. 3 at 74, changed the visual culture of contemporary fashion with his embrace of natural beauty. canonical: https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-05T09:53:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T07:18:55.582Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour og:description: Lindbergh died on Sept. 3 at 74 og:url: https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6653c25472a50026/698a025f86f68ee2896ed848/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance-crop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour twitter:description: Lindbergh died on Sept. 3 at 74 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6653c25472a50026/698a025f86f68ee2896ed848/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance-crop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 5, 2019 9:53 AM UTC  Peter Lindbergh attends his exhibition in Milan in 2000 Peter Lindbergh attends his exhibition in Milan in 2000Gino Begotti—Camera Press/Redux  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 5, 2019 9:53 AM UTC The era of the Supermodel began with one image: models Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell (in portrait below), Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz on the cover of the January 1990 issue of British Vogue. The man who brought them together was German photographer Peter Lindbergh, whose monochromatic interpretation of high-low glamour launched the women to international superstardom. In doing so, he changed the visual culture of contemporary fashion. Lindbergh, who died Sept. 3 at 74, was one of the industry’s most trusted photographers. His affinity for shooting in black and white was as well-known as his distaste for ageism and artifice. He championed women as they were, in stripped-down yet elegant portraits, intimate images that defied the shallowness often associated with fashion. The world may look for “perfection and youth,” he told TIME in 2016, but beauty “is about emotions.” Lindbergh photographed the world’s most famous faces–but in his pursuit of real beauty, what he was really looking for was soul. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/"},"headline":"How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour","datePublished":"2019-09-05T09:53:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T07:18:55.582Z","description":"Fashion visionary","url":"https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/","keywords":["remembrance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6653c25472a50026/698a025f86f68ee2896ed848/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance-crop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6653c25472a50026/698a025f86f68ee2896ed848/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance-crop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance","caption":"Peter Lindbergh attends his exhibition in Milan in 2000","creditText":"Gino Begotti—Camera Press/Redux","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5669517/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance/","name":"How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour"}}]}] ```