Face of fashion

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Face of fashion

Susan Bright ; essay by Vince Aletti ; [portraits by Mert Alas ... [et al.]

Aperture, 2007

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Other photographers: Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, Mario Sorrenti

Bibliography: p. 228

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Any fashion photographer can make a flattering portrait, but the contemporary masters featured in 'Face of Fashion" don't even try. This striking volume presents the intensely unconventional, often unnervingly intimate portraiture being made by some of today's most creative and original fashion photographers. Each photographer is represented by a range of portraits, including several commissioned especially for this book. Some of these portraits were produced as ads, others were commissioned for editorial features. Many of the subjects are celebrities such as Kate Moss by Corinne Day, Madonna by Steven Klein and by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Sting by Paolo Roversi; others are as anonymous as Mario Sorrenti's "Woman I". Essays by Susan Bright and Vince Aletti illuminate the collaborative nature of this radically new approach to portraiture, as well as how it diverges from earlier work by Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and others. In addition, interviews and candid descriptions of the process by the photographers and subjects themselves provide rare insight into the potent mix of fame, fashion, and photography seen here.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA82404854
  • ISBN
    • 9781597110396
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    231 p.
  • Size
    31 cm
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