--- description: Peter Lindbergh, who died on Sept. 3 at 74, changed the visual culture of contemporary fashion with his embrace of natural beauty. title: How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6653c25472a50026/698a025f86f68ee2896ed848/peter-lindbergh-fashion-remembrance-crop.jpg?branch=production ---  * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [remembrance](/tag/remembrance/) ## remembrance Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour  by [Cady Lang](/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 5, 2019 9:53 AM CUT  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](/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 5, 2019 9:53 AM CUT 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"}}]}] ```