Great artists have a way of drawing other great artists into their thrall. Such was certainly the case with the late Tina Turner, whose enormous powers as a performer and personality led to important collaborations and friendships with fellow singers—from Mick Jagger and Bryan Adams to Beyoncé and Adrienne Warren, Turner’s Broadway doppelgänger—as well as designers like Azzedine Alaïa and Giorgio Armani.
Among those in her creative orbit was Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019), the era-defining German fashion photographer and filmmaker. His long and affectionate relationship with Turner is the subject of a new book from Taschen, Tina Turner by Peter Lindbergh, out June 12, with a foreword by her widower, Erwin Bach.
“If I want to see vibrant images of Tina—the real Tina—I just have to look at Peter Lindbergh’s extraordinary photographs,” Bach writes. “Peter saw her as a work of art, a fashion and beauty icon, and, more importantly, a joyous, powerful, and deeply spiritual woman.”
From Paris to Deauville, Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert, Lindbergh captured Turner at work and at play—doing her hair, sipping coffee, singing, strutting, and simply being the dazzling, one-in-a-generation star the world couldn’t help but fall in love with.
On the second anniversary of her death at age 83, see 10 glorious, rarely seen photographs of Tina Turner by Peter Lindbergh below.
