Fashion Photography
ファッション写真 / 1911– / Style / Photographic Genres
From de Meyer's halos through Penn's seamless to Avedon's leaps: photography that sells clothes while inventing each era's image of the body, with studio light and page cropping as its laboratory.
The seamless abstract space / Designed artificial light / Invented poses / Cropping made for the page
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Adolf de Meyer / Irving Penn / Richard Avedon