Wednesday 9th January 2013
"Fashion As Photograph (The Body in Fashion Photography)" Lecture Notes
Helen Clarke
Some fashion photography is solely based about showing the product
- Catalogue/ Product Photography
- Ghost Mannequinn illustrates the garments
First photograph- "View From The Window at the Gare"
Need to become reproducable
- William Henry Fox Talbot invented fixing agent
- Longer exposure times
- Calotype uses Silver Nitrate- shows destruction of the negatives
- Allowed for photography to be available to the masses
Adolphe Brown (1856) photographs Countess di Casliglione
- Theatrical Poses
- She acts as the Director
- Suggestive Emphasis
- Re- Acts several events in her life
- Fragmented Body (Pushing the Bounderies)
Age of the Fashion Magazines
- Improvements in the halftone printing (dot)
Paul Poiret (1879- 1944)
- Revolutionary for Woman
- Freedom of Corsetry
Adolf de Mayer (1920's)
- Pictorialist Approach
- Model Posing (Acting as a Character)
- Natural Elements add to the Romantic Theme that was popular at the time
Martin Munkacsi (1930's)
- Technical Capacity of the Camera
- Active pose- Sporting image due to Movement
Edward Steichen
- Use of Dramatic Abstract Shapes (Sculptural)
- Lighting & Exposure of Light (Very Specific)
- Sharp Focus & Geometry
- Images reflect Modernism in General Life
La Mode Practique (1938)- 1st Fashion Photo Cover
Vogue vs Harpers Bazaar:
- Hoyningen- Heune- Sense of Movement, Flow & Fluidity
- Dream/ Angel- like feel
- Unattainable, Mythical Beauty
- Horst P Horst- Salvador Dali "Dream of Venus"
- Using the Camera to explore Fantasy
- Cecil Beaton- Social Status Photography
- Decedant Events & Documenting the Bohemian time
- Putting a star out of ther spotlight
- Spotlighting creates Dramatic Shadow
- Environment is reflectine of the wealth and opulance
- Lee Miller- Crosses the bounderies between model and photographer
- Involved in alot of Surrealism
- Documentary photographer
- Louise Dahl Wolfe- Taking the model from the Studio set
- Sculpture reflected in work
- Style model based on the Scultpure in photo- Eyes drawn to it as the main focus
- Doubling Up (Reflection)- Figure in Foreground and Background
Photographs & Pop Culture (1960's)
- David Bailey- Mick Jagger
- Terrence Donovan- Spy Drama (1962)- Plays on the Heroic story
- Brain Duffy- Models became the girl-next-door
- More Accessible
- Sexual Liberation
- Barrier of the Shop Window
- Awareness between model and photographer
- Richard Avelon- Emotionless Static pose
- Tina Turner- Inbetween moment makes relatable realness (Interacting)
- In The American West (1985)- Studio setting making the unknown person into a
glamourous model
Objectification of the Female Body
- Helmut Newton- Inclusion of the Photographer
- Guy Bourdin- Fragmentation of the body influenced by Surrealism
Street Photography
-Jamel Shabazz- Hipn Hop Scene with Real Street Fashion
- iD Magazine & The Face Magazine- Real People
- Pre-Photoshop- Leaning towards Reality
- Heroism in Warts-and-All imagery
- Juergon Teller- Bare & Untouched
- Fashion that looks like a documentary
- Corrine Day- "Waif Look"
Adobe Photoshop (2003)
- The End of Gritty Realism
- The Potential of the Idelised Body
- Terry Richardson- Working with the Hyperbody
- Nick Knight- Futuristic and Architectural (Stepped over the lines of Reality)
Fashion Blogging
-Emergence of Street Photography (Low Fi Quality Images)
- Anyone can write- Documenting the Personal Side of Fashion
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