David Seidner

David Seidner (born 18 February 1957) was an American photographer known for his portraits and fashion photography. He died of complications from AIDS on Sunday, June 6, 1999. David Seidner was nineteen when his first cover picture was published and twenty-one when the first of many solo exhibitions of his photographs was shown in Paris. . His signature imagery from the 1980s included photographic fragments, paint, shards of glass and reflections. His influence then was the music of John Cage.

His immense cultural knowledge enabled him to draw on the past to create modern yet timeless images. His nudes evoke Greek classical sculpture; his portraits from the mid-Nineties were inspired by John Singer Sargent and evoke the paintings of Boldini, Ingres and Velázquez; his black and white portraits of artists recall busts of Roman emperors.

Seidner's work had several defining periods. In its evolution, his images became more and more pure, ending with the simplicity of the orchid series, which was taken in his Miami apartment using an auto- focus camera and colour negative film.

A very important phase of David Seidner's work was his series of nudes.