This volume celebrates the work of illustrious portrait and fashion photographer Mario Testino. Uniting dynamic fairy tales and baroque photocomposition, the resulting images sizzle with sex appeal. Blessed with a rare talent for capturing the moment, Testino breaks down all barriers. As you peruse these memorable works you bear witness to the development of a complex artist. His striking photographs mesmerize with artfully staged, yet authentic sensuality. What he once found beautiful, now he finds merely tangential. Beauty in itself now bores him. His current artistic challenge is to break through surface and embrace what lies beyond.Mario Testino, born 1954 in Peru, shot to international fame in 1993 when he photographed Madonna for a Versace campaign. This set the tone for the 1990s, which were truly his time of triumph. 2007 saw the publication of his opulent illustrated book Let me In, documenting how Testino became a key player in the world of glamour.Over 90 large format pages highlighting delectable images from recent years. This volume showcases Testino's best fashion work featuring many of his images from Vogue, the definitive word on style.