Alexi Lubomirski: Diverse Beauty – ARTBOOK|D.A.P.

England-born, New York�based photographer Alexi Lubomirski has become an established name within the fashion industry, shooting for such publications as Harper�s Bazaar, Vogue and GQ, and working with cover stars such as Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman, to name but a few. It was after shooting Lupita Nyong�o, however, that Lubomirski was struck by the homogeneity of the subjects he�d been hired to shoot professionally. Often when he submitted a list of models he was interested in shooting, responses would range along the lines of �we love her, but...,� �her hair is a problem,� �she is too dark� or �she is too light to make a statement.�In Diverse Beauty, Lubomirski aims to move beyond the underrepresentation of women from a range of ethnicities in fashion media. The volume compiles his photographs of beautiful women of every color, size, age and sexual orientation in a celebration of beauty that adds dimension to the standards so omniscient in Western fashion magazines and advertisements.This handsome volume of cinematic fashion portraiture--featuring such subjects as Lupita Nyong�o, Rashida Jones, Salma Hayek, Demi Lovato, Anja Rubik, Jennifer Lopez, Chanel Iman, Hari Nef, Isabella Rossellini, Tyra Banks and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, among many others--is also a small step in the direction of changing societal norms.