Madonna - 15th Album

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I generally think Ricardo isn't as bad a photographer as a lot of fans seem to think he is, but I don't necessarily need him to do album artwork photography either. I'm personally still pulling for Luigi & Iango on that front, all of their work with her has been gorgeous.
 
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My problem with Luigi & Iango is that she only seems to call them up when Mert & Marcus aren't around, because the styles are... not all that different dd. And on that front, I'd rather Mert & Marcus. But ideally I'd want her to connect with someone she hasn't worked with before, or someone she hasn't worked with in a while, like Jean-Baptise Mondino or Steven Meisel.
 
My problem with Luigi & Iango is that she only seems to call them up when Mert & Marcus aren't around, because the styles are... not all that different dd. And on that front, I'd rather Mert & Marcus. But ideally I'd want her to connect with someone she hasn't worked with before, or someone she hasn't worked with in a while, like Jean-Baptise Mondino or Steven Meisel.
Yeah totally agree with this - they are Mert & Marcus lite.

She hasn't worked with Mondino since the Confessions Tour, is he retired or something?

Steven Meisel I'm 50/50 on because their last collaboration I think was the second Louis Vuitton ad and it was a little disappointing given their history but looks like he's still doing some great work for Italian Vogue right now, so who knows.

Klein is out for me just because they've done so much together recently.
 
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Yeah I'm mostly a Klein apologist and I don't even want him for the album dd

When was the last time she worked with Craig McDean? Is it really American Life?
 
Yeah I'm mostly a Klein apologist and I don't even want him for the album dd

When was the last time she worked with Craig McDean? Is it really American Life?
Yeah because they had a falling out I think?

Edit - actually that was a rumour but I think something must have happened

Reps deny fall-out between Madonna and Craig McDean, 06/13/2003
Rumour swirled this week about a conflict between Madonna and Craig McDean, the cutting-edge fashion photographer she hired to shoot the cover of her latest album “American Life.”
Previous stories focused on the allegedly astronomical expense of the shoot, but the new scuttlebutt says McDean had paid all his own expenses for the privilege of working with the pop diva only to have her turn up her nose at the finished product; she supposedly ended up cobbling something together from the few passable images on her own.However, both McDean’s and Madonna’s reps insist everything is A-OK.
“For some reason a number of things are being said about the shoot, but it’s absolutely not true,” says Anne Kennedy, McDean’s powerhouse agent at Art + Commerce. “We’ve worked with them a lot and never really had any major dramas.”
Madonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg, was more vocal: “This smells of an evil queen trying to trash Craig McDean and Madonna,”
she told Fashion Buzz.
“For one thing, the record company always pays the photographer’s expenses,” she insists. “And Madonna loved the artwork. She had many meetings with Craig and he was her first choice. They worked together before on a Vanity Fair shoot and everything was completely harmonious and fine.”
For the “American Life” session, Rosenberg notes, “There was kind of Patty Hearst/Che Guevara thing going on, reflecting Madonna’s philosophy of being a rebel.”
 
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I didn't realize they'd worked together on the Confessions Tour, I always thought the lawsuit over the Hollywood video had something to do with the partnership ending.
Yeah he photographed her in her tour outfit for Madame Figaro magazine in 2005

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