chosen by American Photography Magazine :
Madonna has worked with a handful of photographers throughout her career to create a carefully calculated collection of iconography. Early on she collaborated with Herb Ritts, who polished her photographic image to a high sheen, establishing Madonna as a force in culture and fashion. Over the years, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, and others helped her shape-shift her identity, always being careful to place her persona just outside the bounds of middle-class tastes but close enough so that her every move could be witnessed by her followers. Such is her genius. Her most notable — and most interesting — work has been done with Steven Meisel, who photographed her for the cover of her 1984 album, Like a Virgin, and for a series of projects in the early 1990s. The most infamous of those was the 1992 book, Sex, made at the moment when Madonna’s persona was veering from neo-punk to neo-Marquis de Sade.
Reuniting for the cover of Vanity Fair’s May 2008 Green Issue, the pair updated Madonna’s cultural status once again, turning the 49-year-old soon-to-be single mother into a lingerie-clad warrior, guarding the globe through the sheer power of her sexuality. In Meisel’s beautifully rendered pictures, the Material Girl becomes an Earth MILF, demonstrating again the power of imagery to create seductive fantasy. Environmentalism aside, the issue coincided with the release of Madonna’s Hard Candy album, and readers were invited to explore the hardworking entertainer’s personal high-wire act.
Sticky & Sweet 
Tom Munro 
Revolver 
Hope For Haiti 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna - Celebration 
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration 
I Am Because We Are 
Filth and Wisdom 
I Am Because We Are 
Miles Away 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna Confessions 
Madonna 2009 
Give It 2 Me 
Give It 2 Me 
Hard Candy 
Hard Candy 
4 Minutes 
4 Minutes 
Excuse me the for the typing error, I meant to say that the visual concepts of this site are not too ‘loud’ but very nice and cool.
Nowadays many websites have become too bright for their own good, too many things at the same time. Not enough space, not enough room for fan input and discussions.
Unlike Madonna, many artist are afraid of discussions. Madonna and her fans invite discussions. Madonna and her fans are NOT ASHAMED to express themselves.
Thanks for the explanation Pera, If you are responsible for this site, I must say you are doing a great job. I like the mix on this site. Some videos, some news, some factual reports, some photos some, some rumours, some discussions. This is a lively well balanced Madonna site. I also like its visual clean and simple concept. The base colours are not too laud. It has a cool effect.
Keep up the good work.
people say about madonna’s obssesion of looking younger ….i think she does care about her face and body like any other normal woman.my mother,my aunt both had facialjob but are they obssesed?no.
example: mel gibson…..he’s tummy and have deep lines on his face and people still think he’s atractive….but i saw some pics of sharon stone ,still glorious for her age,at the cannes and the comments were: she is aging like a bowl of fruits….
society is always this way with women…
about the photoshop EVERY magazine even newspaper use it…i think vanity fair exagerated but still the concept is magnificent..who else in the show business could do this kind of phOtograft….yeap that’s why she embraced the globe as if to say…I MAKE THIS SHIT GO AROUND….
I don’t know how these hours are counted and registered, but the registered times of my posts are not correct. I have only been surfing and typing these comments for the past 45 minutes and right now, it is 11.15 am central European time zone.
Greetings to all Madonna admirers of all ages, sexes, sizes, colours and classes. Have yourself a sticky hot and sweat summer. Don’t sit there like silly boy/ girl, if you wait too long, it will be too late,,,,,
Your voice, your choice,,,,,,,,
I couldn’t find a solution to make all times convert to everyone’s local time. Displayed time is the local time on server, which is CST (UTC-6 or CET-7). I could change all times to CET but then everyone outside that zone would also get wrong time.
By the way, doesn’t matter what Madonna does, as always, some people will be ready to criticise her. They criticise her if she runs down the road in her sweatpants, with messy hair and wearing no make up. They also criticise her when she lives up to her name.
Oh well, we Madonna admirers don’t care what others think. We still think she is UNASHAMED and MADGICAL. It is great that she can see life and live life through different perspectives(be the glamour and club goddess and have her foot solid on the normal/ ghetto ground)
Far more than love, we continue to admire her.
Madonna rules. Admit it.
Madonna gives great (inner)face. That is why her photos are so Madgical. Those photographers are extraordinary too because they managed to capture Madonna’s inner face (her character/ her state of mind) in their photographs. It was not the Photoshop.
I once saw an interview with Mario Testino at work. He said that he didn’t like to do much to a photo, because if the photo authentically and genuinely works, it needs little to no retouching.
I think those photographers and Madonna have managed to push forward the art of photographic style and communication.
Madonna lives (in) the photos and communicates with them too. I mean her photographs taken by Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Steven Meisel are absolute best modern and postmodern iconological photos ever made. Madonna is a beautiful person. But her beauty is not just skin-deep. She is extraordinary from inside. That is where her looks really begin from. There are plenty of new plastic starlest out there who also have access to make up and cosmetic surgery. But they just can’t look as amazing as Madonna because they don’t have the inner beauty to sustain them. Madonna feels and knows that she is the queen of universe and she manages to exhbit that throgh her photos as well her philosophy in life: you are what you believe you are. Madonna wears her state of mind at the time, everytime she is photographed.
Just look at the true blue, like a virgin and ray of light album covers. As do Hard Candy album cover and this magazine cover. They are proof of the fact that it is still very much Madonna’s material world. They all say something. Just like Madonna herself, her photos represent the time and the culture, yet at the same time they also trenscend the time and culture. Just like Madonna, her phtos too cross the borderlines.
God save Madonna the Material Goddess.
I am going to see her in Germany or Belgium depending on where I can get the best ticket. I want to be in the front row when she sings Candy Shop and Beat Goes On.
I agree that Madonna looks beyond gorgeous at 50 (or any age) but that last Vanity Fair spread was really unfortunate with the obvious retouching. She looks like a mannequin. BUT, she’s Madonna and can do as she pleases. I’m just sorry she has succumb to the mindset that everyone has to look young in order to be viable. One of the many things I’ve loved about M is her groundedness and apparent refusal to give in to societal pressures. I thought her sugar was raw – not Photoshopped!
I THINK THE TWO PICS FROM THIS SHOOT ARE GREAT. THE OTHER PICS FROM THE SAME SHOOT ARE EQUALLY AS STUNNING. I DO FIND IT UNLIKELY THAT A PHOTOGRAPHER OF THAT STATURE AND NOTORIETY OR M HERSELF WOULD GO THE DISTANCE TO USE “PHOTOSHOP” TO IMPROVE HER WHOLE FACE AND BODY…THE WOMAN LOOKS GREAT,REGARDLESS.
she isn’t her cause she has already used photoshop for all her body an her face, i like madonna and i love her, but mad please stop trying to look younger with that stupid computer program, just be as you are acept your age. just dont doit more,be as brat pitt he doesnt want that his pictures are retouched. OK?
You’re are flawless at your 50, nver change
this first pic is awesome…the message is:
I RULE THIS PLACE…
or like the song….
THE WORLD IS MINE….
Funny I just made a little video with all different photoshoots throughout the years, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B__znA5ysWU
to: Cr@zy4M*donna
Great photo montage!
slick, sophisticated, sexy, feminine, and very much
in the realm of the great Lady herself – really well done
from the Lucky Star days, to Meisel, to Newton,
Mondino, to Testino, and Dah Len, and Klien
you even put in those ever so rare Ellen Von Unwerth
photos, which i think are a really bittersweet image of M
5 ☆☆☆☆☆’s on Youtube
Thanx for posting it!
wow!
this is quite a creative cue for M and Steven
it’s truly a great image of M,
for me i think it’s one of her all time best collaborations
both her and Steven Meisel have done in a long time
when i see the image of M in front of that large globe
i think M looks like a Super-hero – or a Super-villain
Well Done.