alwaysademo
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Hi! I'd like to start this conversation because the more I observe fashion (magazines specifically) and its cycles, read the tidbits and insiders' stories, I notice how very often some outsiders come and shake the industry up a bit with their uncommon view. I'm talking fashion photography exclusively. Think Corinne Day and Bruce. Before he was unofficially knighted the establishment, Guy Bourdin had always injected his own peculiar tastes, so did Penn in his later life. Their non-fashion reality really informed their best fashion work. The most recent photographer of this breed I could really think of is Jamie Hawkesworth, who gave this.. hetero warmth (I can't find a different way to describe it) that make the girls and the clothes memorable and vibrant. So I'd love to see and hear what you guys think. I'd go first:
1/ That one time Phillip Lorca DiCorcia shot Comme des Garçons:
This picture mesmerised me when I first came across it. Maybe it was luck but Phillip really captured the spirit of Comme in such a setting, with the model at the edge of the afternoon light like that, the light gives the outfit the perfect silhouette and a touch of texture that really highlighted how out of this world she is... with normally dressed people in the bg in uniforms and the old lady with her curious look in the foreground. I like how introverted the model came across, the way she held her Comme almost as a defense mechanism or a safety blanket. It's non-confrontational. To this day I think of this picture when I think of Comme and not a Roversi whom I equally adore. He went on to shoot a few campaigns for Bottega and was featured a few times in US Vogue (notably for a MET-themed edit once)
2/ Joel Meyerowitz
He's mainly a Magnum kind of photographer, but this picture is just... it's not a fashion picture per se but it's so chic:
3/ Harri Peccinotti for Nova:
Most of them are without clothes but the pictures he shot easily serves as inspo for a house like YSL today. I think Henrik Purienne is inspired by him.
4/ Ugo Mulas shot jewelry for Vogue:
A life photographer, also he documented artists' working process. He's responsible for a very famous picture of Lucio Fontana slashing one of his canvases. This picture is so beautiful, I saw it in a terrible fashion book some years ago and went for it.
that's a few on top of my head... what do you guys think?
1/ That one time Phillip Lorca DiCorcia shot Comme des Garçons:
This picture mesmerised me when I first came across it. Maybe it was luck but Phillip really captured the spirit of Comme in such a setting, with the model at the edge of the afternoon light like that, the light gives the outfit the perfect silhouette and a touch of texture that really highlighted how out of this world she is... with normally dressed people in the bg in uniforms and the old lady with her curious look in the foreground. I like how introverted the model came across, the way she held her Comme almost as a defense mechanism or a safety blanket. It's non-confrontational. To this day I think of this picture when I think of Comme and not a Roversi whom I equally adore. He went on to shoot a few campaigns for Bottega and was featured a few times in US Vogue (notably for a MET-themed edit once)
2/ Joel Meyerowitz
He's mainly a Magnum kind of photographer, but this picture is just... it's not a fashion picture per se but it's so chic:
3/ Harri Peccinotti for Nova:
Most of them are without clothes but the pictures he shot easily serves as inspo for a house like YSL today. I think Henrik Purienne is inspired by him.
4/ Ugo Mulas shot jewelry for Vogue:
A life photographer, also he documented artists' working process. He's responsible for a very famous picture of Lucio Fontana slashing one of his canvases. This picture is so beautiful, I saw it in a terrible fashion book some years ago and went for it.
that's a few on top of my head... what do you guys think?