Mondino: (Deja Vu )

Arts & Photography

Mondino, Jean-Baptiste

Individual Artists

Te Neues Pub Group

Jean-Baptiste Mondino is one of the most influential imag-makers of our times and among professional photographers the cult figure of young art directors and designers. The world of images we live in is largely pervaded by Mondino’s photographs and video clips. His photographic and video works have created a furore worldwide, they have set the trend. First published in 1999 this book introduced the 54-year-old photographer-cum-artdirector from Paris to the limelight, where he had previously put the greatest stars in the rock and pop world. Mondino’s creative genius presents Brian Ferry, Sting, David Bowie, Boy George, Madonna, Prince, Vanessa Paradis and many more. They entrust their image to his artistry of the hightest caliber, to his unrivalled combination of outstanding qualities: technical perfection matched by aesthetic inventiveness, scintillating creativity, courage in the pursuit of constant innovation, and high sensivity for zeitgeist.

Jean-baptiste Mondino: Deja Vu

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

After his bestselling book Déja vu, Jean-Baptiste Mondino presents his equally mesmerizing sequel Two Much. His photographs, digitally processed pictures, and video clips radically changed the commercial strategies of the rock, pop and fashion industry and made him the image guru of the young generation. Presenting Mondino‘s creative output of the past five years, Two Much bears striking witness to the delight he takes in playing with zeitgeist expressions and to his boundless ingenuity. Technically brilliant, with an equally rich and scin-tillating mix of black humor, glamour, and bizarre erotic visions, Two Much is an essential source of inspiration for all those who by profession or by passion deal with photography, advertising, and life style.

Mondino: Two Much

Jean-Baptiste Mondino’s digitally processed photographs and video clips radically changed the commercial strategies of the rock, pop and fashion industry and made him a guru of the trade. Yet, Mondino originally started as a disc jockey and composer. Music is still his favorite subject and the electric guitar his favorite instrument. No wonder, ever since Picasso and Braque created their first guitar still lifes, this instrument stands for the mesmerizing combination of music, erotics, and modernism. In his new book Mondino presents his guitar photographs created over the past twenty years as commissioned works or his own projects. They portray famous rock and pop musicians such as Mick Jagger, Madonna, Tom Waits, and Keith Richards; models and celebrities with guitars; and numerous anonymous guitar players. Central subject and the undisputed star of each picture, however, is the guitar itself. 
Text by Jean-Baptiste Mondino 
Book design by Steve Hiett 
Jean-Baptiste Mondino, born in Aubervilliers, France, in 1949, started his career as a disc jockey and composer. Today he is one of the most influential advertising photographers and video artists of our time. 
Steve Hiett, renown photographer and graphic designer, created the genre-breaking photo book Elgort’s Models Manual (1993) and directed the launch of YSL’s Opium. His work can be found in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. 
120 color and duotone plates

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: Guitar Eros

A truly masterful magician of visual manipulation, Mondino has radically altered the ad strategies pursued in Rock, Pop, and fashion. Two Much, a compendium of his photographic work assembled by the artist himself, proves that he has neither lost his zest for toying with the jetsam of the zeitgeist nor has he run out of ideas. Absolutely brilliant in technical terms, his work offers a wide-ranging and flamboyant mixture of divious wit, black humor, glamour, and bizarre eroticism. A fascinating publication sold-out in its trade edition, Two Much is still available in its limited and signed collector's edition, for which the artist--in typical Mondino manner--created a cover with a special twist.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: Two Much

Photography & Video

Schirmer/Mosel