Ellen von Unwerth first came to prominence in 1989 when she shot the now legendary Guess campaign with a 17-year-old unknown model named Claudia Schiffer – channelling a sensuous Brigitte Bardot – and catapulted her into the spotlight. In 1990, a year after the initial Guess campaign, von Unwerth took the present photograph of the young Schiffer in Deauville, France for Vogue Italia. Von Unwerth, who worked as a model before going behind the camera, has published a number of photobooks and two photo-novellas. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the C5 Art Center, Beijing; the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.