Over the last twenty years, fashion photography has emerged as one of culture's core mediums. Archeology of Elegance presents an "archaeological" view of the best fashion photography over the last two decades, unearthing the various attitudes and offering a unique perspective on fashion history.
Over two hundred images by sixty-two of the world's best photographers serve to visualize the qualities and forms of recent cultural forces, from the rebellious energy and poetry of punk and the post-modern and Modernist variants of 1980s glamor, to the high-tech and futurist aesthetic and the way in which fashion has increasingly become allied to fine art.
Over the last twenty years, fashion photography has emerged as one of culture's core mediums. archeology of elegance presents as "archaeological" view of the best fashion photography over the last two decades, unearthing the various attitudes and offering a unique perspective on fashion history.
Over two hundred images by sixty-two of the world's best photographers serve to visualize the qualities and forms of recent cultural foes, from the rebellious energy and poetry of punk and the post-modern and Modernist variants of 1980s glamor, to the high-tech and futurist aesthetic and the way in which fashion has increasingly become allied the fine art.
Ulf Poschardt believes that fashion photography has freed itself from the shackles of utility and can now lay claim to being a discrete art. This collection seems to bear his theory out: the medium has indeed become the message.
Archeology of Elegance is an exceptional and dynamic collection of 200 superb photographs by sixty-two of today's most acclaimed photographers from Robert Mapplethorpe to Peter Lindbergh, Miles Aldridge, Herb Ritts, Ellen von Unwerth, Nick Knight, David Lachapelle and Jean-Baptiste Mondino, presenting fashion photography as art. During the past twenty years, there is no question that fashion photography has become a driving force for new directions in fashion, design and cosmetics and a vital source of ideas for the visual arts and designmanifesting itself in forms as diverse as punk rock, glamour or high-tech futurism. According to culture critic Ulf Poschardt, fashion photography has become the new, almost self-sufficient leitmedia of international culture, a culture that is expressed increasingly in visual terms. As seen in Archeology of Elegance, this once commercial and functional craft has become, without question, an art form in itself.
The book accompanies an exhibition in Paris and Hamburg with upcoming venues in New York, LA, Tokyo and London.
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9780847825127
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Non-Fiction
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Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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368
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$85.00
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| Author |
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Baumet, Stephane
De Beaupre, Marion
Poschardt, Ulf
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11/01/2002
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Out of Stock Indefinitely
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Hardcover
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English
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Height: 12.25 Inches (US)
Width: 10.5 Inches (US)
Thickness: 1.5 Inches (US)
Unit Weight: 6.4 Pounds (US)
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