Ivan Shaw is the director of photography at the Condé Nast archive. Formerly the executive photo director at Vogue, he also contributed to Around That Time.
In the 231-page book, assembled by Ivan Shaw, the photography director of the Conde Nast Archives, there's a famous image of her in a one-piece swimsuit photographed by Arthur Elgort for the January 1976 edition of Vogue. Hansen's swimsuit is wet and nearly transparent. Her hair is wet, too. Her pose is casual. She's leaning on a railing overlooking the water. One can see a few swimmers in the blurry distance. The image is sexy because of everything that it is not: obvious, revealing, urgent. Her calm expression is inviting but not demanding. Will she delight in your company? Or shrug it off? -- Washington Post Ivan Shaw, photography director for the Conde Nast Archive and the driving force behind this particular collection of images, tells THR that the timing of the book felt just right: `One of the things that's come out of the book is the idea of beauty at any age: You see Patti at 16-beautiful-and then again at 56, and she's just as beautiful. So there's this amazing 40-year arc. We started photographing her in 1972 and the last shoot we did with her for Vogue was 2012. I didn't plan it, it just came together in this beautiful visual biography and narrative.' -- Hollywood Reporter