Any fashion photographer can make a flattering portrait, but the contemporary masters featured in Face of Fashion don't even try. This striking, gold-embossed, faux-leather-bound volume presents the intensely unconventional, often unnervingly intimate portraiture being made by some of today's most creative and original fashion photographers--including Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, Mario Sorrenti and the team of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Each photographer is represented by a range of portraits, including several commissioned especially for this book. Some of the portraits were produced for ads; others were commissioned for editorial features. Many of the subjects are celebrities, including Kate Moss, Madonna, Matthew Barney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Sting. Others are completely anonymous. Essays by Susan Bright and Vince Aletti illuminate the collaborative nature of this radically new approach to portraiture, as well as how it diverges from earlier work by masters like Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and others. In addition, candid descriptions of the process by the photographers and subjects themselves provide rare insight into the potent mix of fame, fashion and photography on view here. Copublished with the National Portrait Gallery, London, to accompany the exhibition there.
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"Face of Fashion is a collection of unconventionally intimate portraits by some of the most provocative fashion photographers working today..." --Harper's Bazaar
"...a book dedicated to the photography of some of fashion's most influential contemporary shutterbugs." --Elle Magazine
"In our airbrushed, celeb-saturated world, how refreshing is Face of Fashion, a book of celebrity portraits based on an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, featuring Madonna, Kate Moss, and Natalia Vodianova in unconventional poses." --Marie Claire
"This striking book presents some of today's most creative and original fashion photographers and their intensely unconventional and intimate portraits. The images reveal how fame, fashion, and art have radically changed portraiture in recent years." --City: The Destination for Style
"...a book dedicated to the photography of some of fashion's most influential contemporary shutterbugs." --Elle Magazine
"In our airbrushed, celeb-saturated world, how refreshing is Face of Fashion, a book of celebrity portraits based on an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, featuring Madonna, Kate Moss, and Natalia Vodianova in unconventional poses." --Marie Claire
"This striking book presents some of today's most creative and original fashion photographers and their intensely unconventional and intimate portraits. The images reveal how fame, fashion, and art have radically changed portraiture in recent years." --City: The Destination for Style
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This review is from: Face of Fashion: Photographs by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti (Hardcover)
If you think of fashion photography as being the pictures of clothes draped across beautiful bodies to be shown in advertisements, you will find only a small percentage of the pictures in this book to meet that expectation. Instead here you will find photographs that are striking, that don't really fit with the idea of selling a dress. Indeed if 'fashion' implies clothes, some of the pictures here don't show any clothes at all, just the form of the model.
The result is a collection of photographs that show what the best of the best of photographers are doing today. Striking, yes. Disturbing, sometimes. Beautiful, often. Sexy, usually. Each page brings something to the eye that's usually a surprise.
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Full-page color images blend with essays and writings about the photographer's approach and the fashion and art worlds.,
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This review is from: Face of Fashion: Photographs by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti (Hardcover)
The contemporary fashion portrait is the focus in FACE OF FASHION, which brings together paintings made for the fine arts yet embodying fashion styles, standards, and art. The array of photographers whose works appear here all have a distinct, unique style within fashion photography, making FACE OF FASHION an excellent juxtaposition of varying approaches and styles and a top pick for any college-level art or fashion library. Full-page color images blend with essays and writings about the photographer's approach and the fashion and art worlds.
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