Stephanie Pfriender Stylander

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander (born 1960) is an American fashion and entertainment portrait photographer.

Stylander was raised in Glen Rock, New Jersey. She studied at the School of Visual Arts and Endicott College, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an Associate of Science in photography, respectively. After graduating, she went on to assist photographer, Art Kane, in New York City. Her career in photography began in the early 1990s when she moved to Milan and Paris.

Pfriender Stylander's images have been widely published in magazines throughout the world, British GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, French Glamour, Interview, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. She photographed entertainment legends, such as Bjork, Sheryl Crow, Aretha Franklin, John Hurt, Samuel L Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, Nicole Kidman, Heath Ledger, Jennifer Lopez, and Keith Richards. Her most notable shoot is of a young Kate Moss' photographed in a fashion editorial story for Harper's Bazaar Uomo, 1992.

Pfriender Stylander had a solo exhibition in 2018 at La Galerie de l’Instant in Paris. Her photographs have been included in exhibitions at Photo London 2019, Photo Basel 2019, Festival International de la Photo de Mode, Art Basel Miami, Paris Photo, Photo Shanghai, and are housed in private collections.

Pfriender Stylander is represented by the Staley-Wise Gallery in New York, Ira Stehmann Fine Art in Munich, La Galerie de l’Instant in Paris, and Izzy Gallery in Toronto. She and her husband reside in New York City.

• The Untamed Eye. Publisher: MW Editions. Printed in Italy, 2018. ISBN 978-0-998-7018-2-0. Pages: 168; 138 color and black and white photographs.