A collection of bold, fun, colourful images giving an
insight into the life of Mario Testino, one of today's
top fashion photographer. Over the past few years the
name of Mario Testino has become synonymous with the
cutting edge of fashion photography. His redefining
images of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Madonna, as well
as numerous campaigns for Gucci, Versace, Missoni and
others, have established him as an arbiter of Nineties
style. Born in Lima, Peru, he moved to London in his
twenties and set about becoming a photographer. His
tremendous energy and love of life carried him through
the tough journey that finally earned him innumerable
pages in Vogue and an address book that is positively
bursting at the seams. Any Objections? is Testino's
first book. Provocative and sometimes shocking, it is a
lightning roller-coaster of unpublished images which
brilliantly illuminates the vision of one of
photography's shrewdest eyes. Fashion and the gutter,
nature and artifice, high life and low, jostle for his
attention.Faces of the very famous in the least expected
places, bodies of the very beautiful, landscapes and
cities, close friends and extraordinary passersby all
find their place in a pattern which is held together by
Testino's evident sense of the absurd. The book is an
insight into the raw material of fashion, where a
glimpse of life from a street in Tangier can be the
inspiration for a fashion story in New York. At once
diary and commentary, picture after picture (all
reproduced full-page) provoke reactions as diverse as
their subject-matter: from shock to amusement and from
surprise to delight. Whether or not you have any
objections, you can't help being intrigued by Testino's
very personal view of the world that surrounds
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