Revue — Eugenio Recuenco

Revue is Eugenio Recuenco’s grand theatrical volume — a decadent, constructed dreamworld that reads like a surrealist stage production. Known for his elaborately staged fashion editorials, Recuenco here pushes the form into something far more immersive: a visual opera composed of allegory, tableau, and cinematic artifice. Each image is a set-piece, heavy with references to classical painting, totalitarian aesthetics, silent cinema, fairy tale, and political spectacle. Models become characters — queens, soldiers, muses — playing out fractured narratives in meticulously lit environments. What emerges is a surreal, often dark pantomime of power and beauty, with Recuenco operating less as photographer than as director, scenographer, and mythmaker. The production scale is operatic; the tone, baroque; the humour, laced with menace. Published by teNeues in a large, lush format, Revue is not just a photobook — it’s a fevered archive of the performative image, revealing how fashion, history, and fantasy collide on the constructed stage of the lens.

Technical Sheet
Title: Revue
Artist / Author: Eugenio Recuenco
Date: 2013
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions (cm): Approx. 29 × 38 (unconfirmed)
Language: Multilingual (English, German, French, Spanish)
Pages: Approx. 236
Publisher / Editor: teNeues Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-3-8327-9728-7
Condition: Very good