STAN MALINOWSKI

Stan Malinowski picked up a camera in college and soon began skipping class to shoot images for Playboy. His portfolio grew and soon was impressive enough that the photographer was hired as the first art director for Hustler.

Stan was inspired by photographer and publisher Bob Guccione, whose work would constantly inform his own. It was Guccione who would give Stan his first assignments in New York for Penthouse Magazine and encourage him to develop his unique photographic eye.

When Stan moved from Chicago to New York, he was hungry to shoot for high fashion magazines. His tenacity was soon rewarded with a call from Vogue, which would be a turning point in his career. Vogue’s Alexander Lieberman and Bazaar’s Lizzette Kattan would soon discover his work, nurturing his career to the point that he worked with major fashion magazines and brands such as Maybelline and Valentino.

Stan is a unique artist and one of the first to recognize the intersection between fashion and fine art. His aesthetic, a mixture of sexiness, playfulness, and precision, allowed him to traverse boundaries and create work for two sectors of the fashion world which, at the time, were distinct from each other.

Stan has an expansive portfolio of work spanning from the beginning of the 70’s through the 90’s, but is best known for his work during the 80’s. As a photographer, Stan creates a balance between restraint and excess, play and polish, tensions very much in the air during the 80’s. Stan was naturally able to capture the zeitgeist, propelling him to the recognition which defines him today.

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