Ellen von Unwerth Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Ellen von Unwerth is a German photographer and director who has been active in the fashion industry since the late 1980s. She is best known for her provocative, erotic, and playful images of women. She has shot for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, and Harper's Bazaar, and has directed music videos for artists such as Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and Madonna. Von Unwerth was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1954. She studied photography at the London College of Printing and began her career as a fashion model in Paris. She soon began taking her own photographs and was hired by the German magazine Stern to shoot a series of portraits of Claudia Schiffer. This led to a long-term collaboration with the model, and von Unwerth went on to shoot for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, and Harper's Bazaar. Von Unwerth has also directed music videos for artists such as Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and Madonna. She has published several books of her photography, including Fraulein (1996), Couples (1999), and Go See (2005). As of 2021, Ellen von Unwerth's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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In a 2018 interview with Harper's Bazaar, she explained her feminist approach to photography: "The women in my pictures are always strong, even if they are also sexy. My women always look self-assured. I try to make them look as beautiful as they can because every woman wants to feel beautiful, sexy and powerful. That's what I try to do."

Von Unwerth did promotional photography for Duran Duran from 1994 to 1997 and did some photography for their 1990 album Liberty and 1997 album Medazzaland. Her work has been used on other album covers including Bananarama's Pop Life (1991), Belinda Carlisle's A Woman and a Man (1996), Cathy Dennis' Am I the Kinda Girl? (1996), Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (1997), All Saints' Saints & Sinners (2000), Dido's Life for Rent (2003), Britney Spears' Blackout (2007), Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics (2006) and Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits and Rihanna's Rated R and Talk That Talk. She also shot the cover of Hole's album Live Through This (1994).

Von Unwerth's first notable work was when she first photographed Claudia Schiffer in 1989. Her work has been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, The Face, Arena, Twill, L'Uomo Vogue, I-D, and Playboy, and she has published several books of photography.

Ellen von Unwerth (born 17 January 1954) is a German photographer and director.

Von Unwerth was born 17 January 1954 in Frankfurt, Germany. As an orphan, during her early childhood, she often ended up in Bavarian foster care systems. Eventually, von Unwerth was able to graduate high school in Munich, where she would work as a circus magician's assistant for three years. At the age of twenty while walking down the street, von Unwerth was asked by a photographer if she ever thought about having a modeling career. von Unwerth decided to give modeling a chance and moved to Paris where she had a successful modeling career for ten years. However, von Unwerth felt that as a model, she did not have the freedom to decide where her or how image would be used. Her boyfriend at the time gave her a camera, leading to an impromptu photo shoot in Africa by her of her model colleagues. When the photos were published, von Unwerth decided that this was the new path she would take in life, as the demand for her photography skills outgrew her demand as a model.