Jean-Paul Goude

author · photographer · illustrator · designer

Jean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, and advertising film director. Born in Montreuil, France, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs before beginning his career as an illustrator. He gained significant recognition in the 1970s as the art director for Esquire magazine in New York City, where he was known for his surrealist and pop-culture aesthetic. Goude is renowned for his distinctive visual style that blends collage, photomontage, and high-fashion imagery. He has collaborated extensively with figures like Grace Jones, creating iconic album covers and music videos. His work spans various media, including print campaigns for brands such as Chanel, Kodak, and Perrier, as well as large-scale event design and architecture projects.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29]

Themes

  • surrealism
  • pop culture
  • collage
  • photomontage
  • exoticism
  • blackness

Works by Jean-Paul Goude

  • Jungle Fever 1981 · Xavier Moreau Inc. · book · English ISBN 0937950017 Pictorial autobiography featuring photographs and sketches of his work.
  • So Far, So Goude 2006 · Assouline · book ISBN 2-84323-755-6

Exhibitions

  • 2011 Goudemalion Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris solo
  • 2016 So Far So Goude Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan solo
  • 2019 In Goude We Trust! Palazzo Giureconsulti, Milan solo

References

  1. Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Goude (Birth certificate) link
  2. Patrick Mauriès. Jean-Paul Goude. www.jeanpaulgoude.com link
  3. Meet the creatives. British Journal of Photography. Bjp-online.com link
  4. France Celebrates Its Bicentennial With Tanks, Planes and Parades. Los Angeles Times. 1989 link
  5. Jean-Paul Goude. Jungle Fever. Xavier Moreau Inc.. 1983
  6. Leslie Camhi. Jean-Paul Goude's Playful and Transformative Retrospective at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Vogue link
  7. Jean Bond. Brilliantly Goude. France Today link
  8. Danillo Almeida. Grace Jones and Citroën CX are Pure 1980s Zeitgeist. Medium. 2021 link
  9. Jean-Paul Goude-Jungle Fever. fashionartbooks.wordpress.com. 2012 link
  10. Brock Cardiner. Kim Kardashian Goes Fully Nude for 'PAPERMAG' Winter 2014. Highsnobiety. 2014 link
  11. Cedar Pasori. These Are the Original Jean-Paul Goude Images That Inspired Kim Kardashian's Paper Magazine Cover. complex.com. 2014 link
  12. Derrick Clifton. The Problem with Kim Kardashian's Butt Photos Nobody Is Talking About. identities.mic. 2014 link
  13. Tiffanie Drayton. More Thoughts on Jean-Paul Goude, The Black Jezebel Stereotype & That Racist Kim Kardashian Photoshoot. thefrisky.com. 2014 link
  14. Howard Bernstein. SPREAD ARTCULTURE All Goude. sarahhasted.com. 2007 link
  15. COCO, the 1991 Film with Vanessa Paradis – CHANEL Fragrance. YouTube. 2012 link
  16. Denis Cosnard. À Paris, Jean-Paul Goude sauve le squat de « Vernon Subutex ». lemonde.fr. 2019 link
  17. Denis Cosnard. Jean-Paul Goude doit démolir sa villa à Paris, achetée pour 2,2 millions d'euros. Le Monde. 2021 link
  18. Denis Cosnard. Jean-Paul Goude doit démolir sa villa Zilveli, acquise à prix d'or. Le Monde. 2021 link
  19. Reconstruction of the Villa Zilveli, a controversial project. France Culture link
  20. Thomas Martin. Paris: after being forced to demolish a famous house bought for 2 million euros, Jean-Paul Goude gives up. L’Actu. 2024 link
  21. Vue sur Paris: Opportunité Exceptionnelle avec Paris Ouest Sotheby's International Realty. Sotheby’s International Realty link
  22. Private house. Lankry-architectes.fr link
  23. William Defebaugh. Jean-Paul Goude's New Exhibition, So Far So Goude. V Magazine. 2016 link
  24. Giulia Cangianiello. Palazzo Giureconsulti, Milan. In Goude We Trust!. lampoonmagazine.com. 2019 link
  25. Lee Wohlfert. When Disco Queen Grace Jones Lamented 'I Need a Man,' Artist Jean-Paul Goude Prowled Too Near Her Cage. People. 1979 link
  26. Khaoula Ghanem. Five Things You Probably Didn't Know About Farida Khelfa. Vogue Arabia. 2017 link
  27. 10 Things You Never Knew About... Grace Jones. clashmusic.com link
  28. The Interview. South China Morning Post. 2001 link
  29. Katia Malausséna. Commemoration as staging citizenship : the example of the Bicentennial of the French revolution. Paris 13 University. 2000 link