The Diana Room is a permanent exhibition at the Mario Testino Museum (MATE) in Lima, Peru. Tucked away from the rest of the photographic displays, it’s a shrine-like testament to the late Princess Diana and the power of photography. Artist or producer of 22 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artist Mario Testino (1954-), Photographer.

In 1997, Peruvian-born Mario Testino-one of the world’s most influential fashion and portrait photographers-came face-to-face with Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), Princess of Wales. The sitting, commissioned for Vanity Fair, would have a profound impact on Testino, Diana, and thousands, if not millions, of people around the world. Testino revealed a different, often hidden side to Diana: modern, unrestrained, smiling, sexual. Not the cooped-up royal with the weight of the world on her paparazzi-plagued shoulders. The photographer later called the photo shoot one of the greatest experiences of his life.

The princess, according to British fashion and art journalist Meredith Etherington-Smith, called it one of the happiest days of hers. The photos were the last official portraits taken of Diana before her death. She died later that same year, two months after the images were published. It includes an appendix with information detailing the dresses featured in the Work and identifying those on display at Kensington Palace.Īrt Sale titles are new books but might have slight damage.Now, in a restored 19th-century mansion in the Barranco District of Lima, a quiet room in the MATE museum pays tribute to Diana. Chapters are arranged according to the various dresses worn by Diana.

Testino has been regularly employed by the British. It includes foreword by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a mayor role in arranging the sitting in 1997 and an interview with Mario Testino about his recollections of the sitting and as well as a contribution from Hamish Bowles, European editor-at-large of American Vogue. His career highpoint came when he was chosen by Princess Diana for her Vanity Fair photoshoot in 1997. The book is edited by Patrick Kinmonth, long-term collaborator and friend of Testino's. The selection of about seventy photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot. The book brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, displaying Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Diana Princess of Wales was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. Inside Princess Diana's last portrait session. Diana, Princess of Wales documents Princess Dianas last portrait session, just five months before her death in August 1997, by Mario Testino for Vanity.

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