The Leica Gallery Munich presents iconic works by the internationally renowned photographer.
Nomi Baumgartl (*1950) is one of the most versatile photographers in Germany. She traveled all over the world, photographed touching reportages, portrayed prominent contemporaries and was a successful fashion and advertising photographer. The Leica Gallery Munich is showing previously unpublished and legendary fashion photographs by Baumgartl, which are a visually stunning testimony to the "supermodel era" and document the heyday of the fashionable 1990s. A good 30 years ago, Baumgartl was up close and personal when creations by design icons such as Jil Sander and Yohji Yamamoto made fashion history on the catwalks of Paris, Tokyo and Milan.
MY KIND OF PRAY, Julian Sands, Yohji Yamamoto Show, Tokyo 1991 © Nomi Baumgartl
Under the title "ETERNAL ICONS", she is now dedicating a separate exhibition to the era of "supermodels". It is a sensitive journey into the fashion world at the beginning of the 1990s and a touching extension of her existing photo art edition "UNSEEN ICONS" (2022). The exhibited positions - mainly taken with a Leica M6 - are a documentation of this special time and a manifesto for the zeitgeist of those years. With her intimate insights, Baumgartl has created a tribute to the world's greatest fashion artists and allows the models - including icons such as Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and bar legend and model for major fashion labels Charles Schuhmann - to become part of a larger whole.
The objects are mainly previously unpublished works in the form of black and white and color photographs, all of which were photographed analog. On display are exclusive backstage moments. They show purely human snapshots between restlessness, euphoria, exhaustion and longing. They illustrate the ambivalence of that era of "supermodels".
"ETERNAL ICONS" is an impressive and emotional homage to the photographer's companions. Like a personal diary, the works quote hitherto little-known emotional levels of the supermodels of those days and document friendships that continue to this day. The exhibition title is a reminiscence of Tatjana Patitz, who died in January 2023 and with whom Baumgartl shared an extraordinary friendship, a common heart connection to nature.
January 26 to April 20, 2024
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Tatjana Patitz, Yohji Yamamoto Show, Paris, October 1991 © Nomi Baumgartl
