Fashion Images De Mode No.3 - Lisa Lovatt Smith (1998)

About

"Magazines and modems give us punctual shots of high creativity imagery, and then Fashion Images de Mode preserves the best of them, bringing them together to be examined from another point of view. It is an instant legacy of fleeting moments, through one of the western world's most transparent cultural phenomena. As the industry that fuels fantasies, fashion has an essential role in our consumerist times, raising questions of identity, gender, role and function. Fashion photography is its associated art form - and an art form with the funds and the audience necessary to achieve widespread assimilation. The painter Jasper Johns once defined the camera as 'an object that tells of the loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them?' For me, those words perfectly describe this book and its yet unborn siblings. May they assume you..."

Details

Format: Hardback
Size: 23 x 30 cm
Pages: 188
Condition: Great

Areas of Interest

Art Photography
Beauty Photography
Erotic & Nude Photography
Fashion Photography
Hair & Makeup

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