Tag: Chris von Wangenheim
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Playboy’s Raquel Welch in her blue bikini, with footnotes # 113
Chris von Wangenheim was born in Breig, in what was then a war-torn East Prussia, in 1942. His father was an officer in the German Army who died in Soviet captivity in 1953. This tragedy would go on to inform his son’s dark nature. By this time von Wangenheim was living in the Bavarian mountains…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chris von Wangenheim’s SUSAN SARANDON, with Footnotes. #107
In the late 70s to early 80s, Chris von Wangenheim loved all the trappings of the punk scene-the tattoos, leather motorcycle jackets, and wildly colored hair-and incorporated them into his high-fashion work such as the image with Susan Sarandon for the Crawdaddy Magazine cover of May 1978 issue.The cover featured the tagline “Wild Dreams Wicked…