2. QUESTIONS How have contemporary fashion photographers been influenced by other art forms? Compare and contrast the fashion photography of the 1950s with today. Explore the innate contradiction in fashion photography: clients want images of clothes to sell more clothes and photographers want to create art.
3. Read these 2 articles for a brilliantly concise overview of fashion photography http://fashionversusart.blogspot.com/2009/11/early-fashion-photography-to-1970s.html http://fashionversusart.blogspot.com/2009/11/fashion-photography.html
4. Look at the date of this image. Is it what you expect victorian photography to look like? What is different about it? Who was the Countess di Castiglione?
5. What mood is associated with this image? How was the lighting achieved? Does it look of its time? Why?
6. Cecil Beaton A highly inventive photographer, backgrounds that relate to the clothes.
23. From super-human supermodels to science-fiction. The first obviously digitally manipulated imagery to appear in Fashion magazines. There is an interesting link to Cindy Sherman’s Italian Vogue images a few years earlier – with her use of the ‘Horror’ or ‘Ugly’ aesthetic. What is beauty?
