Philippe Robert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Philippe Robert
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1953(1953-06-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	Lille
Country	France
Birth City	Lille
Horoscope	Cancer

Philippe Robert Biography

Philippe Robert is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on June 24, 1953 in Lille, Lille, France. Philippe Robert (born June 24, 1953, in Lille) is a French photographer. His work includes portraits, fashion, and advertising photos.

At that time he also started to make his first pictures shooting people that he met. He took advantage of his acquaintances with photographers close to the cinema to improve his skills, among them André Kertész. In 1984, he assisted the photographer during his last series “New Distortions”, shot in Hotel Esmeralda in Paris where Kertész made the original “Distortions” series (1933). During this session, the master of photography, André Kertész, aged 90, known for his sense of humor, also made several distorted photos of his female model and young assistant, Philippe Robert.

He made his first advertising photographs while working with the French singer Lio who launched her own fashion line for Prisunic, a retail chain, in the early 1990s. Lio mentions that collaboration in her biography which contains a collection of her favorite photographs (Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Pierre and Gilles and Philippe Robert).

Philippe Robert made his name in the beginning of 1990 with his photographs of self-confident women, women who are comfortable wearing outfits of fashion designers who undress them while dressing them. Although together with Jean- Baptiste Mondino and Stephane Sednaoui he is one the French photographers who brought “erotic touch” to the fashion photography, he said at the beginning of his career that his main ambition was to catch his models’ beauty and individuality and not to create shock images. His photographs are minimalistic. As does Richard Avedon that Robert considers as a master, he shots in an empty studio. Facing the camera alone the models “give themselves” – an expression that the photographer uses to imply an offering of themselves to the photograph beyond mere posing.

Thanks to the journalist Philippe Garnier working for Libération and the future movie-maker Olivier Assayas working at this time for Cahiers du Cinéma, Philippe Robert met Tom Waits, who was about to release his album One from Heart (and Crystal Gayle), the original soundtrack of the Francis Ford Coppola movie of the same title (1982) and around that time he took a series of photographs of the musician. Waits introduced Robert to Bob Guccione Jr who would later lunch Spin magazine and publish Philippe Robert’s Tom Waits series in the September 1987 issue. This first publication opened the door to Robert to publish his work in American magazines such as LA Weekly, Interview Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and New York Times Magazine.

Philippe Robert Net Worth

Philippe Robert is one of the richest Photographer from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philippe Robert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Philippe Robert graduated from the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Paris (Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques – IDHEC, 1979 cohort) where he had Henri Alekan as one of his teachers. During his studies he started to work for French television on the television show of Jean- Christophe Averty and on Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, directed by Giorgio Strehler at Paris National Opera. After graduating from IDHEC, he enrolled at UCLA Film School and did an internship on Postman always rings twice directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson.

From 1981 to 1986, Philippe Robert worked between Europe and The United States on a French television show dedicated to the cinema – Etoiles et Toiles, produced by Frédéric Mitterrand (the future French Minister of Culture and Communication). During this early stage of his career, he met French TV figures (Maurice Dugowson, Raoul Sangla, Jean-Pierre Spiero) but also American movie makers who would have an important influence on his photographic style (Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, Ridley Scott …).

From that time Philippe Robert dedicated himself exclusively to photography. In 1987, he set up The Murder Ink production company with his friends Jean- Maue Ooghe (the television producer of the Tour de France for France Television since 1997) and Philippe Sikirdji. Thanks to Lionel Cros, a French fashion designer and image-maker, he discovered “la Haute Couture” and started to provide fashion images for French fashion magazines and their European editions.

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This began for Philippe Robert a long and intense period of artistic creativity. For over 10 years he was assisted by Laurent Caron who created his own production company IOROPE, in the early 2000s. True to his education and artistic background, Robert collaborated in multiplies multiple ways that mixed fashion, movie and music. He contributed photographs for widely diverse publications. These included popular fashion magazines (ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie-Claire …) ; specialized press (Max : French and Italian editions, Paris Match, Photo, VSD …) ; luxury magazines (Ritz …) ; ambitious hype magazines (City International Magazine, Sans Nom – ancestor of Citizen K) and occasionally trash press (Loaded).

Facts & Trivia

Philippe Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Philippe Robert celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.

Philippe Robert works with many brands known worldwide: Chanel, Chloé, Dior, Eunué, Evil, Giorgio Armani, Guerlain, Hermès, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Naf-Naf, Ralph Lauren, Well and Yves Saint Laurent. He shoots their fashion series and advertising campaigns with models and supermodels (Estella Warren, Naf-Naf, 2005), actresses (Nora Arnezeder, Guerlain, 2009 ; Marine Vacth, Chanel, 2010) and figures (rugby player Sebastien Chabal, Chanel, 2010).