Saturday, 14 April 2012

Lecture notes: Fashion as Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot - invented a fixing process working with negatives


Ghost mannequin - Invisible model effect



First permanent photograph was in 1826, by Niepce




Calotype - process using silver nitrate
black and white negative processing


Virginia Oldini - photographed in 1856


Fashion magazine - improvements in halftone printing
Before this, drawn illustrations were used


Vogue vs Harpers Bazaar

Leaders in fashion photography in the 20s and 30s


Cecil Beaton - British Vogue and Vanity Fair member of "bright young things" in 20s and 30s
Photographed royals



Vivian Leigh for Vogue, 1930s


Queen Elizabeth II in 1958



Twiggy. 1966


Bill Curry, American West, 1958



ID Magazine vs The Face


Adobe Photoshop launched in 2003 and age of everyone being able to digitally manipulate photographs easily


Terry Richardson - US Photographer, Vogue, Vanity Fair, H&M 

Nick Knight- Yojo Yamamoto, UK photographer, Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior etc



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1 comment:

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