Nicole Kidman, Robin Wright & More Star In Unretouched Pirelli Calendar

No Photoshop right here!

A bevy of A-list actresses completely sidestep retouching within the new Pirelli Calendar, as stars like Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Robin Wright, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o, Helen Mirren, Rooney Mara, Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, Lea Seydoux, Kate Winslet, Alicia Vikander and Zhang Ziyi had been photographed for the 2017 version with none of the modifying or smoothing out that often comes together with such shoots.

This yr’s calendar — the 44th version — was shot by famed photographer Peter Lindbergh, in his third time behind the lens for the corporate.

Peter Lindbergh

In a press convention earlier in the present day, Lindbergh stated the unretouched, black-and-white pics “do not match within the local weather in any respect. That’s the aim of this: to say I do not settle for that picture of magnificence, which has been created by industrial pursuits, and to remind what magnificence actually is.”

“In a time when girls are represented within the media and all over the place else, as ambassadors of perfection and youth, I believed it was vital to remind everybody that there’s a completely different magnificence, extra actual and truthful and never manipulated by industrial or some other pursuits, a magnificence which speaks about individuality, braveness to be your self and your individual non-public sensibility,” he added.

He additionally said his need was to “create a calendar not round excellent our bodies, however on sensitivity and emotion, stripping all the way down to the very soul of the sitters, who thus develop into extra nude than bare.”

Peter Lindbergh

The assortment of images — 40 photographs in whole — had been shot between May and June of this yr, in Berlin, Los Angeles, London, New York and France.

“My intention was to painting girls another way and I did it by calling in actresses who’ve performed an vital function in my life, getting as shut as doable to them to take my images,” he added of his topics. “As an artist, I really feel I am chargeable for liberating girls from the concept of everlasting youth and perfection. The supreme of excellent magnificence promoted by society is one thing that merely cannot be attained.”

Check out among the images above — we gotta say, they nonetheless look excellent to us!

Learn extra in regards to the calendar here!

Peter Lindbergh