Patrick Demarchelier will remain associated with the radiant face of Princess Diana, which he photographed in London in 1990 for
British Vogue
on an idea by its legendary editor, Liz Tilberis.
Sitting on the floor, her shoulders bare and tanned, her teeth sparkling like her pearls and her sovereign tiara, barely hidden by a white veil like a bride on a wedding night, the Princess of Wales has this happy and assertive beauty of Venus .
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This black and white portrait, both sensual and modest, with a formal simplicity that multiplies its audacity, will make Patrick Demarchelier the personal portraitist of Diana, thus becoming the first photographer of the British royal family who is not English. .
After the media and acid divorce from Prince Charles, Demarchelier continued to photograph this beautiful Englishwoman in search of happiness.
He died at the age of 78 on March 31, probably in Saint-Barth, following a long illness that he had thwarted for a time.
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