When Tina Met Peter: 10 Uncommon and Superb Snapshots of Tina Turner by Peter Lindbergh

Nice artists have a method of drawing different nice artists into their thrall. Such was actually the case with the late Tina Turner, whose monumental powers as a performer and persona led to necessary collaborations and friendships with fellow singers—from Mick Jagger and Bryan Adams to Beyoncé and Adrienne Warren, Turner’s Broadway doppelgänger—in addition to designers like Azzedine Alaïa and Giorgio Armani.

Amongst these in her inventive orbit was Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019), the era-defining German style photographer and filmmaker. His lengthy and affectionate relationship with Turner is the topic of a brand new e-book from Taschen, Tina Turner by Peter Lindbergh, out June 12, with a foreword by her widower, Erwin Bach.

“If I wish to see vibrant pictures of Tina—the true Tina—I simply have to take a look at Peter Lindbergh’s extraordinary pictures,” Bach writes. “Peter noticed her as a murals, a style and wonder icon, and, extra importantly, a joyous, highly effective, and deeply religious girl.”

From Paris to Deauville, Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert, Lindbergh captured Turner at work and at play—doing her hair, sipping espresso, singing, strutting, and easily being the dazzling, one-in-a-generation star the world couldn’t assist however fall in love with.

On the second anniversary of her demise at age 83, see 10 wonderful, not often seen pictures of Tina Turner by Peter Lindbergh under.

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