Next year’s Pirelli wall calendar – the 37th edition of what’s become an annual cult classic – has celebrated its gala global premiere in London and is ready to start counting the days.
The 2010 version focuses on Brazil, featuring the work of American photographer Terry Richardson.
Last year’s month-by-month guide was adorned with images shot by Peter Beard in Botswana. Photos from China filled the 2008 calendar.
Richardson, described as taking a “provocative and outrageous approach to his art,” has 30 pictures in the 2010 edition.
“A great photographer captures the moment – that’s why I shoot without extra equipment and without assistants,” Richardson explains.
“My technique is the absence of technique: The lens is my eye, my charisma, my ability to capture moments of truth, whatever they may be, picture angles, use of color, light, scenery – these have always been the essential aspects of my photographic art,” he observes.
The 11 models from various nations who posed in Brazil for the calendar are: Catherine McNeil, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Miranda Kerr of Australia; Eniko Mihalik from Hungary; Marloes Horst of The Netherlands; Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley from the United Kingdom; Georgina Stojilijkovic of Serbia; and two Brazilian natives, Gracie Carvalho and Ana Beatriz Barros.
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