FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

History

  Fashion photography is one of the genres of photography that displays a variety of different fashions shown in magazines or adverts. Fashion photography has also been around since the start of photography and had started to be known because of the rise in fashion magazines like ‘Harper Bazer’ made in 1967 followed by ‘Vogue’, which came out in 1982, both of these was used to present different fashions to the public.

Adolph De Meyer 1898 Adolph de Meyer was born in 1868 and grew up in Paris until immigrating to England to join the Royal Photographic Society and the Linked Ring. He was a famous photographer known for taking portraits of celebrities in the early 20th century. Adolph then moved to New York and became the first fashion photographer for the well known magazine ‘Vogue’ in 1913.

In my Opinion I think that Adolph’s work is interesting because the models in the photograph show a lot of shapes in their poses to show the background of themselves to suit the clothes they are modeling in particular

Cecil Beaton 1927

Cecil Beaton was born in 1904 in London, England. When he was a child he admired the pictures of society ladies that usually came in the Sunday newspapers. In 1920s he was a photographer for ‘Vogue’ and ‘Vanity Fair’ magazines. Not only was Cecil was a photographer but he was also a diarist, interior designer and a costume designer

Norman Parkinson 1931

Erwin Blumenfeld 1938

William Klein 1948

Guy Bourdin 1955

David Bailey 1958

Patrick Demarchelier 1975

David Lachapelle 1980