Tag: fashion photography

  • Capturing Cool: the Jamel Shabazz photographs

    Only recently was I lamenting the dearth of street fashion photography in our collection to a colleague, when we were put in touch with the visionary street and fashion photographer, Jamel Shabazz.  It took us about a millisecond to ponder his query:  ‘Would we be interested in receiving a donation of some of his photographs?’ …

  • Steichen & Poiret: the first fashion photographs?

    Many scholars cite the emergence of modern fashion photography to the April 1911 issue of Art et Decoration, which features the designs of couturier Paul Poiret as photographed by famed photographer Edward Steichen. Certainly, these images are not the earliest fashion photographs—our department contains examples from La Mode Pratique dating to 1892—but the presentation of garments…