Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography

by Paul Martineau

Book Overview

In 1911 the French publisher Lucien Vogel challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century, so did the photography of fashion. Steichen's modernist approach was forthright and visually arresting. In the 1930s the photographer Martin Munk csi pioneered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606065580
• ISBN13: 9781606065587
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.8" x 12.3"