Vintage Blonde by Michael Dengler
In a style reminiscent of ‘a man walked into a bar’, today’s photographer Michael Dengler shows just how random magic can be made…
“I met the stylist in a bar one night and we talked about clothes. I loved her own style (a mix of vintage and new stuff) and she showed me some pieces she made on her cell phone. So we decided to work together on a project.” Dengler tells BenTrovatoBlog.com, he also had Emilia Stroiwas (hair/mua) lined up… “Emilia sent me an email some months ago saying that she would love to work with me. We tried to work together a few times, but every time something went wrong and the shoot was cancelled a few days before. But this time everything went fine.” Finding the right model proved trickier… “It was a quite difficult to find her [Lea]. After a while Munich Models mailed me some pictures of Lea and the thing was on.”
Dengler says of the shoot, which is his first full-scale boudoir photography project… “We wanted to build up a visual language that melded the vintage feel of art nouveau with the more modern concept of photography. During the days before the shoot I saw a few portraits of Romy Schneider (Austrian actress 1938-1982). Perhaps this was an influence, too.” Dengler went on to add… “I love old films and old paintings as well as modern art.”
