Victor Skrebneski, the fashion photographer best known for his dramatic black and white celebrity and advertising photography, most notably “The Estee Lauder Woman,” died Saturday at his Chicago home. He was 90 years old.Throughout his 70-year-career, Skrebneski photographed such celebrities as David Bowie, Cindy Crawford, Oprah Winfrey, Audrey Hepburn, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Kathleen Turner, and Barack and Michelle Obama.
Last December, the Fashion Group International Chicago featured Skrebneski as the guest of honor at the Ritz-Carlton. In a question and answer session conducted by former Saks Fifth Avenue fashion director Nena Ivon, Skrebneski charmed the audience with stories and highlights from his career, starting with his black turtlenecks sweater series, showing iconic celebrities such as Liza Minnelli, Truman Capote, and Orson Welles wearing the same black turtleneck.
“I like accidents in photographs – most kids don’t understand that,”he said. “When something happens that you don’t expect and it comes out the way I think it should, I love it. Most of my work is blurry and out of focus. That’s the way I grew up. No one told me when I was seven years old that I shouldn’t shake the camera. That was the beginning and I liked the way it looked and I didn’t know there was any other way to look,” said Skrebneski, in a WWD story.
“They said do anything you want, just do it and send the pictures in. So I found a young model there, I think Paula Barbieri, a beautiful, beautiful girl. I don’t think the agency knew that they had her. I booked her and she came to the place we were photographing,” he said. “The Hollywood sign is in the background and then you see the Hills and she’s naked, outside, standing right off the road, she’s holding a black hat and she’s in pink shoes. That’s my idea of fashion.
In 2002, Skrebneski returned to Marshall Field’s to shoot their 150th anniversary campaign called “The View from State Street,” that featured cutting edge fashion juxtaposed against Field’s traditions such as the 28 Shop and Frango Mints.
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