Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography
For all the fashion pictures that make it to the pages of Vogue, there are those that don’t. Not because of poor composition or execution, but because the fashion was too oblique, the styling too inventive, the camera technique too pioneering or frequently because the magazine simply ran out of space. Selected from one and a half million images archived at British Vogue, Unseen Vogue presents fashion photographs you have never seen until now. There are unknown works from great photographers: Cecil Beaton, Horst, Norman Parkinson and Lee Miller - these unseen pictures tell the secret history of fashion photography. Every important fashion photographer is represented here, including David Bailey, Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel, Juergen Teller and Mario Testino.
Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue by Grace Coddington
Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photo shoots with David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and the eccentric Guy Bourdin. A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British Vogue, Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work nowadays at American Vogue, where she has been creative director for the past 14 years. GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue is not only a collection of Coddington's greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence of her life in fashion.
Allure by Diana Vreeland
From the legendary Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, comes this collection of work by some of the century's greatest photographers-among them Horst, De Meyer, Avedon, Beaton, Penn, and Steichen, as well as the work of the paparazzi-to give shape to the culture of an era, and some of the celebrated personalities who set their imprint on it. Garbo, Nureyev, Callas, Queen Mary, Duchess of Windsor, and Josephine Baker are just a few of the luminaries whose presences in this book help define Diana Vreeland's concept of allure.
Fashion by Cathy Newman
In this sumptuous new book, Cathy Newman provides a fresh perspective on a fascinating subject. Fashion explores clothing and adornment from a uniquely global perspective, at a time when current fashion is fusing diverse cultural styles as never before.
Lively and provocative essays, drawn from interviews with prominent fashion industry insiders - including contemporary designers, fashion editors, and curators - give new insights into the role fashion has played in history, while Newman’s essays focus on the body adorned, from hair to garb accessories. The book’s introductory essays are written by cultural anthropologist Joanne Eicher and fashion historian Valerie Mendes. Combining illuminating text with exquisite archival and contemporary images, Fashion is not only an essential reference tool but also a gorgeously designed volume that will stand out in both the art and photography markets. This remarkable book offers a thorough and tantalizing look at the ways in which fashion shapes us and the world in which we live.
100 photographs in full color, 8 1/4 x 8 3/4".
The Complete History of Costume and Fashion
Catherine Chermayeff Traditional fashion photography was always about making the clothes look beautiful and flattering. "Today, fashion photography is more about innuendo. It captures a mood, a moment," explains Catherine Chermayeff, author of this stylish book-a compilation of some of the most innovative and provocative fashion photography of the past two years. Fashion photography-both editorial and advertising-has attained cult status; gallery and auction sales of fashion photographs are at an all-time high. From the work of familiar names such as Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, and Ellen von Unwerth to up-and-coming talents such as Kent Baker, Jeff Minton, and Carmen Freudenthal, from the digitally altered images of Lillian Bassman to the stripped-down look of collaborators Alex + Laila, the pictures in this seductive book offer mystery, fantasy, cultural diversity, desire, oddity, and whimsy. CATHERINE CHERMAYEFF is former picture editor of Fortune and the former director of special projects at Magnum Photos. In 1990 she co-founded Umbra, a book-packaging company. She is a partner in i2i, where she directs the fashion photography division. The daughter of graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff, she lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.
Sheila Metzner: Form and Fashion
Sheila Metzner: Form and Fashion intermingles Metzner’s fashion work, her sensual and erotic nudes, and her formalist still lifes - a juxtaposition that conveys a romanticism balanced by precision. The transcendent quality of many of Metzner’s photographs is enhanced by a printing process invented by the Fresson family in 1895 in France, resulting in images that reveal an ethereal tonal range and color saturation. The end results are uniquely Metzner’s own, and have left a major impression on the history of photography.
John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue
With over 200 Vogue and Glamour covers to his credit and 30,000 photos in archive, John Rawlings (1921-1970) immortalized the era in which American fashion and style truly came into their own. During his three-decade affiliation with Conde Nast, Rawlings’s work paralleled his publishers’ and editors’ efforts to reformat and expand the power and scope of the fashion press. Rawlings was in the elite circle of Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, and George Platt Lynes, all top Vogue photographers, yet never received the kind of attention lauded on his colleagues — until now. Drawing on the photographer’s recently rediscovered archive, curator Kohle Yohannan presents glamour portraits as well as never-before-published nudes that testify to the artist’s ground-breaking and compelling body of work. Photographs of stage, screen, and society stars of the 1940s and 1950s, including Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali, Veronica Lake, Lena Horne, and Montgomery Clift are featured.
Vogue Women by Georgina Howell
Vogue Women is a dazzling tour through the history of Vogue magazine and the history of fashion and beauty culture stretching from early fashion magazines depicting debutantes and royalty in formal dress to the chic and daring fashions of the 1920's and 30's. We see the heroic sentimentality of wartime, the rebirth of glamour in Paris, the rising status of fashion models, and the creation of fashion icons that were the forerunners of the Supermodels of the late 80's. Vogue Women scrutinizes the emblems of beauty that survive radical changes in style from the days of Queen Alexandra to today. We see the 'Vogue treatment' that includes expert photography, makeup and hair, and meticulous attention to detail. But we also see something more in these faces, a less tangible side of glamour from Marlene Dietrich to Josephine Baker, Jacqueline Kennedy to Madonna that is timelessly alluring.
The Complete History of Costume and Fashion
The Complete History of Costume and Fashion is a comprehensive illustrated guide to the history of clothing and fashion. At different times in history, fashionable dress has taken very different forms. From the first fashion style of the Egyptians to the extravagant clothes of the Romans, from the birth of the Dandy to haute couture in the twentieth century, this book chronicles the evolution of style for both males and females from a social, cultural, and historical perspective.
