Nick Knight (photographer) explained

Nick Knight
Honorific Suffix:CBE
Birth Name:Nicholas David Gordon Knight
Birth Date:24 November 1958
Birth Place:London, England
Field:Fashion photography, film
Training:Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
Website:

Nicholas David Gordon Knight (born 24 November 1958) is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university.[1] He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.[2]

Life and career

Knight was born in Hammersmith, London.[3] He studied photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and published his first book of photographs, Skinhead, in 1982 when he was still a student at the school. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of portraits for the magazine's fifth-anniversary issue. His work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalog of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with Peter Saville.[4]

In 1992 Knight took a year-long break from fashion photography to work on an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London with the British architect David Chipperfield. The exhibition was called Plant Power and was on the theme of the relationship between humans and plants.[5] The exhibition lasted for fifteen years.[6]

In November 2000, Knight launched SHOWstudio.com.[7] [8]

He directed his first music video in 2001, for the song "Pagan Poetry" by Björk.[9] In 2003, he created a film for Massive Attack's album 100th Window.[10] In 2011 and 2013, he directed the videos for Lady Gaga's single "Born This Way"[11] and Kanye West's "Bound 2"[12] and "Black Skinhead." In 2016, he photographed American rapper/singer Travis Scott for his sophomore album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight.

In 2016, he was commissioned to shoot official portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles for the Queen's 90th birthday.[13]

Also in 2016, Knight's hand-coated pigment photographic work, Tatjana Patitz for Jil Sander, 1992 sold for an artist-record $304,204 at Phillips Hong Kong.[14] The work, originally photographed in 1992 and reprinted in 2016, featured supermodel Tatjana Patitz in a Jil Sander advertising campaign photographed by Knight. The celebrated photograph from Knight's commercial career in the fashion industry represents the collectability of his painterly works to buyers in the world of fine art.[15]

In 2019, he collaborated with Kanye West again, directing his short film Jesus Is King.[16] Filmed in the summer of 2019, the film brings West's Sunday Service to life in the Roden Crater, artist James Turrell's installation in the Painted Desert. The film accompanied the release of Jesus Is King, West's ninth studio album, and was released in IMAX theaters on October 25, 2019.[17]

In 2021, he reunited with Gaga for a collaboration with Champagne brand Dom Perignon on the campaign "The Queendom", in order to realize a series of photos as well as an advertisement, which was released on April 6.[18]

Following the announcement of Lady Gaga’s 2022 Summer Stadium World Tour, The Chromatica Ball, Knight was commissioned to shoot a series of interludes several weeks before it started, matching the twisted dark fantasy visuals Gaga had in mind for her shows.

Already Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Knight was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to fashion and photography.

Selected exhibitions

A few of Nick Knight's exhibitions are listed below:[19]

2016

2015

2014

2012

2011

2009

2006

2001

2000

1998

1997

1996

1994

1993

1992

1991

1989

1986

1982

Publications

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About. Nick Knight.
  2. Web site: Nick Knight - Tatjana Patitz for Jil Sander, 1992, 1992 | 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale Hong Kong Saturday, November 26, 2016 Lot 48. Phillips.
  3. Web site: Nick Knight. Jo. Craven. 21 April 2008 .
  4. Web site: Nick Knight is part of the BoF 500. The Business of Fashion. 18 November 2022 .
  5. "Vision Quest". Alice Rawsthorn, The New York Times, 15 April 2007. Accessed 15 May 2017
  6. Web site: NHM Museum Archives .
  7. Web site: About SHOWstudio | The Home of Fashion Film & Live Fashion. showstudio.com.
  8. Web site: Brit Insurance Design Awards shortlist: From Alexander McQueen to Zaha. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/brit-insurance-design-awards-shortlist-from-alexander-mcqueen-to-zaha-hadid-1871852.html . 20 June 2022 . subscription . live. Independent.co.uk. 18 January 2010.
  9. Web site: Pagan Poetry | SHOWstudio. showstudio.com.
  10. Web site: Special Cases | SHOWstudio. showstudio.com.
  11. Web site: Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Video Premieres. https://web.archive.org/web/20150131151845/http://www.mtv.com/news/1658858/lady-gaga-born-this-way-video/. dead. 31 January 2015. James. Montgomery. MTV News.
  12. Web site: Kanye West debuts Nick Knight-directed Bound 2 video featuring Kim. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kanye-west-previews-new-video-bound-2-featuring-kim-kardashian-topless-8951227.html . 20 June 2022 . subscription . live. Independent.co.uk. 20 November 2013.
  13. Web site: Nick Knight Shoots Portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. Natalie. Theodosi. 18 December 2016.
  14. Web site: Schuster . Angela M.H. . Photography Proves Itself as a Medium for Investment . www.robbreport.com . 29 November 2017 . Robb Report Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation . 19 December 2020 . Last November, Phillips Hong Kong achieved an artist record at auction for British fashion photographer Nick Knight when his Tatjana Patitz for Jil Sander (1992) sold for HK$2,360,000 ($304,204) on its estimate of HK$420,000 to HK$620,000 ($53,800 to $79,500)—more than doubling the previous auction record for Knight’s work, which was set at Phillips in London in May 2016..
  15. Web site: Fury . Alexander . Nick Knight, the visionary architect of digital fashion shows . www.ft.com . THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD . 19 December 2020 . Some of his painterly images are being collected as fine art: in November 2016, his 1992 image of the model Tatjana Patitz, photographed for a Jil Sander campaign, sold at Phillips for HK$2.36m (£230,000), a record for a Knight piece..
  16. Web site: Nick Knight on Directing 'Jesus is King: A Kanye West Film' | SHOWstudio. showstudio.com.
  17. Web site: Haring . Bruce . Kanye West Will Unveil New IMAX Film, 'Jesus Is King', Celebrating His Sunday Service . . September 29, 2019 . en . September 29, 2019.
  18. Web site: Lady Gaga revisits Born This Way vibes in new Chromatica video for 'Free Woman'. April 6, 2021. Yahoo! Movies. April 6, 2021.
  19. Christophe Guye Galerie, Nick Knight (Biography)
  20. Christophe Guye Galerie, Link to the exhibition
  21. Christophe Guye Galerie, Link to the exhibition
  22. Web site: Nick Knight Honoured. Scarlett. Conlon. 10 November 2015.

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