Ellen von Unwerth’s work offers a distinctly playful and sensual version of fashion and beauty photography. In addition to her career as fashion photographer, filmmaker and video director, her work has been collected in numerous books and two photo-novellas. Von Unwerth’s first book, Snaps, was published in 1994 followed by Wicked (1998), Couples (1999) and Omahyra & Boyd (2005). Her photo-novella Revenge was published in 2003 accompanied by exhibitions in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Moscow. Her most recent book Fraulein was published in December of 2009 by Taschen and accompanied by exhibitions in New York, London, Paris and Berlin.