Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.
Arthur Elgort, renowned fashion photographer, and top fashion models such as Cindy Crawford, Veronica Webb and Christy Turlington collaborated to create this photo-filled Models Manual – contains interviews with heads of modelling agencies, stylists, make-up artists, fashion editors, and the models themselves.
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker.
Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's career.
In 1985, photographer Jamie Morgan and stylist Ray Petri created their duo Buffalo – a movement that would become a phenomenon, defining the look, feel and attitude of 80s fashion photography. Collaborators include the likes of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss in the very early days of their careers, at only fifteen and fourteen years old, both now integral to British fashion history. This book presents photographs taken by Jamie Morgan, presenting a legacy of an uncompromisingly urban style that has inspired designers & image makers the world over.
This book documents Glen Luchford's iconic campaigns shot for Prada from 1996 to 1998. The huge cinematic billboards all over the world featuring Amber Valletta, Willem Dafoe, Joaquin Phoenix and many others are reproducced in their entirity and discussed at length in the book's text, a transcript of a conversation between Glen and Lou Stoppard.
Juergen Teller’s most cult book documents a year from May 1998 to May 1999 of casting sessions outside his studio in West London. The mythical, intimate and vulnerable process of a go-see is put under a microscope, revealing raw documentary-style images of models at the start of their career. Amongst the new faces are Debra Shaw (with her dad in the car behind her), Mariacarla Boscono, Adrianna Lima and Devon Aoki.
This book contains the most eminent and interesting examples of fashion photographer Helmut Newton’s work for magazines across Europe and the United States. Facsimiles of more than 500 original spreads from the likes of Elle, Amica, and, above all, Vogue follow Newton’s ongoing ability to break the boundaries of his genre and explore the interaction of his unique, daring, pictures with typography and layout. In lively personal anecdotes alongside the spreads, Newton talks through the inspirations and informal moments behind some of his most memorable images.
Hiromix’s glamorous renditions of Keita Maruyama’s entire 2001 collection are splashed, fashion magazine style, onto thick glossy paper. As the year unfolds, back stage shots, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter as well as one-off photo shoots present the quirky sophistication of this young Japanese designer.
The mysterious and ethereal fashion work of Sarah Moon is gathered together in monograph from 1981 – featuring images made for Marie-Claire, Carita, Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cacharel, The Sunday Times of London, Nova, Pentax, Arkitektur and Wohnen.
The photo book of Kim Jones' debut menswear collection shot by Luke Smalley – a collaboration that followed after came across a copy of Smalley's 'Gymnasium' work.
Lee Miller in Fashion gives us a wide lens view on Miller’s fashion photography. Set against the fast-changing landscapes of New York, Paris, and London, the book shows the story of how Miller challenged the boundaries of fashion photography of the day. Using unpublished photographs and archival research, Conekin shows how Miller’s fashion photographs were a brilliant combination of sharp wit, high art and modernist edge.
This book brings together a selection of images from all the campaigns into a collection that marks how significant this collaboration between Teller and Jacobs has been in both fashion and visual culture.
Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), along with Avedon and Penn, largely invented fashion photography was a pioneer of fashion photography, influencing the ways in which we know it today. This book illustrates fifty years of his work – including his work for Vogue and portraits of the British Royal Family.
Spawned by a commission from fashion designer Marc Jacobs for an advertising campaign, "Ohne Titel" is a collection of largely unpublished images of Juergen Teller and Cindy Sherman. Marc Jacobs' ads have often reflected his close relationships with artists, and in this instance he invited Cindy Sherman to work with Teller. Both artists are known for blurring boundaries: film and fashion, advertising and art, public and private, real and fictitious – and this collaboration solidifies their similarities.
In the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh invented a new way of photographing and interpreting fashion. Considered as one of the great masters of black and white photography, he is best known for his brilliantly posed images of women of stiking beauty. Using fashion photography as the key to his era, Lindbergh creates scenes which are immediately recognisable and forceful in their modernity. This book celebrates the essential and fruitful relationship between Lindbergh's photographs and their primary destination, the magazine page, presenting a selection of his work from 1996-1998 as it appeared in publications such as "Vogue", "W Magazine" and the "New Yorker".
Offering the reader a privileged glimpse into the artistic process used by top fashion photographer Tim Walker, 'Pictures' provides a comprehensive overview of his work which brings us deep inside his world of glamour and adventure – including sketches, pages from his notebooks, polaroids, and contact sheets.
Sheila Metzner's unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. This book contains some of a collection of her photographs, with a foreword by Ralph Lauren.
Known as the poet of glamour and the man who adores women, Peter Lindbergh has been a driving force in the world of fashion and the evolution of the supermodel. This book features not only Lindberghs print photo campaigns but also the outtakes, Polaroids, and scouting photos of the photographers little films that have redefined fashion photography with their compelling realism and depth of emotion. The 250 color and duotone photos feature never-before-published images of Milla Jovovich, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, and Amber Valletta.
In the world of fashion, 'The well' is industry terminology for the main image section of a magazine. For influential British photographer Nigel Shafran, The Well is a space to critique and reflect the worlds of fashion from the inside, a place for unexpected creativity, subversive critique and wry commentary. This chronicles both Shafran’s commercial and non-commercial approach to photography, along with interviews and reflections between Shafran and his peers threaded throughout.