Fashion photography

Fashion Photography

• Catalogue/product photography
• Ghost mannequin
• First permeant photographs - Nicephore Niepces earliest surviving photograph of a scene from nature circa 1826.
• Louis Daguerre, Boulevard de temple, 1838/9

William henry fox Talbot

• Invented a fixing process
• calotype-proces using silver nitrate as in black and white negative used in chemical processing today
• uk in 1840 referred to as the second invention

• Lady alice mary kerrs portrait of Wilfrid Scawen blunt c.1870
• Virginia Oldoini countess di Castiglione photographed by Aldophe Braun, 1856.
• Photographed by Pierson 1861-1867

Age of the fashion magazine

• improvements in the halftone printing process means photographs can be reproduced in magazines
• first 10 years of the 1900's

Paul Poiret ( 1879-1944)

• House of worth
• Freedom from core sty
• Signature shapes - hobble skirt harem pants
• Clothing cu along straight lines
• Influence by antique dress - draping.
• Edward steichen photographs paul poorest designs for art et decoration 1911

• Adolf de Meyer 1920's
• Martin Munkacsi early to mid 1930s - sport image - news and sports photographer
• Edward Steichen in high fashion - 1923-1937
• La Mode Pratique 1983

Vogue vs Harpers Bazaar

• Leaders in fashion photography in the 1920's and 30's
• Hoyningen-Henune 1931 Madame Vionnet - piece of material that follows the drape of the body.

• Horst p Horst costume for salvador Dalis dreams of venus 1939

Cecil Beaton 1904-1980

• British vouge and vanity fair
• photographed and was a member of the bright young things of the 1920s'/30;s
• photographed british royals
• designed sets costumes and lighting for broadway.

Vivien Leigh for Vogue, mid 1930s

Stephen Tennant by Cecil Beaton

Queen Elizabeth II IN 1968

Lee Miller 1907-1977 - photographed by Steichen american photographer and fashion model at age 19

Louise Dahl Wolfe

• From 1936 to 1958 Dahl - Wolfe
• Night bathing 1939

Panorama of paris 1953 - suzy parker

1940s 50s

• William Klein 1950s
• David Bailey 1938 Mick Jagger

60's

• Terence Donovan spy drama 1962
• Brian Duffy jean Shrimpton on the edge ware road 1960.

Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

• Harpers Bazaar till 1966
• Vogue 1966 onwards
• The book in the american west

Tina Turner 1971
Bill curry Drifter Interstate 40. Yukon Oklahoma from in the american west 1985
Helmut Newton(1920-2004) Vogue and Harpers Bazaar

Guy Bourdin for Charles Jourdan shoes.
Jamel Shabazz Back in the days published 2002

August 1980 - ID magazine punk - straight up - photographs go out and take photos of people off the street.

Juergen Teller 1964 - German photographer 

• Photos in the face vogue
• has worked with Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs
• works with musicians
• annie morton 1996

Corrine Day 1965 - 2012

• british fashion photographer and model
• worked for the face and vogue
• vogue cover with kate moss credited with the beginnings of the trend for the waif look.
• Tara a documentary project
• exhibited at Gimpel Fils gallery in 2000

Adobe Photoshop

• Digital image manipulation
• Graphics editing program
• First launched 2003

Terry Richardson

• Book Terryworld published 2004
• us photographer
• has worked for vogue , vanity fair ID magazine harpers bazaar
• sisley , diesel , mango 

Nick Knight

• UK photographer
• Worked with yohji yammamoto in the 90's and with alexander MC'queen christian dior
• Shots for vogue vanity fair , another magazine

Fashion Blogging

• Democratises fashion photography
• anyone can write about/photograph fashion
• eg. Tavi Gevinsons ''style rookie''

• Streetstyle Copenhagen
• Poppy Dinsey 2011 - 'What i wore today'

company magazine 

• 20 or more fashion bloggers celebrated
• put forward as a way into employment
• seems to celebrate real and street fashion

Exacitudes - Ari Versluis photographer and ellie uyteenbrock (stylist)

Casettes gang london 2008