Susie Smoking

Made:
1988
maker:
Nick Knight

Colour photograph entitled 'Susie Smoking' by Nick Knight, 1988.

Nick Knight (1958 - present) is an internationally celebrated British fashion photographer. He is known for the challenges he made to conventional ideals of beauty and for the work he undertook for magazine titles such as British Vogue, Paris Vogue, Dazed and Confused and i-D, where he worked for ten years as the picture editor.

Knight has published several books of his photographs, and been featured by various prestigious institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, The Photographers Gallery, the Hayward Gallery and the Natural History Museum.

This image Suzie Smoking, featuring the model Suzie Bick, was shot for the avant-garde Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, in 1988.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1992-5034
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 246 mm x 195 mm
type:
colour photograph and cibachrome
credit:
National Media Museum, Bradford