From left: Cover image of Nick Knight; Yohji Yamamoto, Red Bustle 1986

Working in fashion editorial, I most admire Nick Knight for his work as the founder of SHOWstudio, which continually pushes fashion journalism out of its sometimes incestuous box. But Knight is also one of the industry’s foremost photographers, having shot iconic ads for Yamamoto, Dior, Alexander McQueen and editorials for The Face, Dazed & Confused (back in the Jefferson Hack and Rankin days), iD, Visionaire and more. His new book, simply titled Nick Knight, chronicles this work as part of his last 15 years and includes an intro by Charlotte Cotton, Curator and Department Head of Photographs at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In anticipation of the launch, I looked back on some of Knight’s work and was reminded of—and once again excited by—the photographer’s particular brand of unabashed and conversely uninhibited British creativity.

Click “Read More” to check out a few of my favorites.

Big Magazine, War 1997

Christian Dior, Hollywood, Spring/Summer 2004

Levi Strauss, Denver Cowboy

Jil Sander 1992

Dazed & Confused, Sister Honey 1999

All images courtesy of Nick Knight.com.