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Austrian-born Sylvie Blum started a career in modeling prior taking the helm as a photographer.
She grew up in Germany.
Throughout her life, she has been traveling the world.
Asia, Africa, Australia, the middle East, Europe,
South America and the US.

As a child she already knew that she wanted to become an artist.
Her interest in art, fashion, architecture, design, pop art, music, movie making and photography became lifelong passions.

During her school days she started modeling and became a well known art and fashion model.

In 1991 she met legendary artist and photographer Guenter Blum and became his favorite model and muse…and in 1995 his wife. He was her mentor and teacher.
Sylvie learned everything about lighting, composition, darkroom techniques and photography from him.

Sylvie also worked with other international known photographers such as Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Jan Saudek, Andreas Bitesnich and many more…

Sylvie took care of Guenter Blum through a terminal illness until his death in 1997.
Heart-broken and devastated from the loss, she left their shared atelier in the German countryside. She moved to an old factory building, which she changed into a photo studio and started working on several photographic projects.

In the following years Sylvie published several art books and her work became international known.

In 2005 she got married for a second time in Las Vegas and relocated to California.

Today she lives and works in Los Angeles in her WhiteBox studio.

In 2011 her book “Naked Beauty” was published by teNeues and distributed worldwide.

Her show Naked Beauty opened in May 2012 together with iconic photographer Herb Ritts at the Fahey Klein Gallery Los Angeles.

Sylvie Blum is represented by Fahey Klein Gallery Los Angeles.
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source: kockmagwordpress
奧地利出生，在德國長大的女攝影師 Sylvie Blum 從小就周遊列國，從亞州、非洲、澳洲、中東、歐洲、南美和美國都去過，她從孩提時代就對時裝、建築、設計、流行藝術、音樂、電影製作有著濃厚的興趣，最後她選擇攝影作為終身職志！在求學時期她開始了模特兒生涯，專注在時尚以及藝術領域。

1991 年她遇到了傳奇攝影師 Guenter Blum 並成為他的繆思以及模特兒，直到 1995 年並成為他的妻子。她從丈夫身上學習到所有的攝影技巧，1997 年丈夫因絕症逝世之後她開始攝影創作並成立工作室。之後的幾年間她的作品便國際知名，並專注在裸體藝術創作！她的攝影集〝Naked Beauty〞於 2011 時在全球發行，隨後於 2012 年搬到洛杉磯定居並開業！
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source: lumas
There are many multi-talented individuals in the art world: authors who take incredible photographs, actors who are extraordinary directors. There are doctors and architects who become acclaimed writers, and poets who create cinematographic masterpieces. But it is rarely heard that a model has notably excelled in artistry.

Sylvie Blum (*1967 in Taxenbach Austria) is the exception. She learned her photographic technique from her husband, the erotic photographer Günter Blum. From his death onwards, she went about changing her perspective by standing behind the camera. Her first published attempt was an ambitious series of self-portraits featuring the narcissistic title “Venus selbst (Venus herself).” It was a kind of self-observation before entering into dialogue with other models. Thereafter she threw herself into a relished obsession and experimented with models, styles, light and space.

In 1998, fascinated by artistic nudes, as they were so perfectly presented in the 1930’s by photographic legends such as George Hoyningen-Huene or Horst P. Horst, Sylvie Blum started creating body fragments, photographic torsos that attain an almost sculptural impression in the artistic lighting and delicate gradation of gray tones. However, the sources of her inspiration are far more varied. Photographs from her bewitching photo series Nudes, which revealed the spectrum of her work, emerged out of Miami, Berlin, Los Angeles and Mallorca.

Whether on the trail of Bruce Weber, Leni Riefenstahl or Herbert List, her images all have something in common. Sylvie Blum gives them something modern and perfects the fine art of the erotic with the utmost aesthetic quality. In a few years, advanced by her exceptional biography, she has found her spot in contemporary photography. “When you think erotica, do you think Sylvie Blum?” asks British Maxim, followed immediately by the answer. “Ol’ Auntie Sylvie is the Ansel Adams of the nude female form.”