Publisher's Synopsis
Special Issue on Fashion and PhotographyThis issue aims to go some way in widening the body of theoretical work on fashion photography, and its establishment as a legitimate, though often contentious, art form. The essays featured demonstrate that fashion photography as a communicator of ideas and as a method of social commentary can work as a from of faction, incorporating real events as a basis for the creator's own brand of narrative.Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe's Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940sConsiders the influential fashion photography of Louise Dahl-Wolfe in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and how it evoked myths of America.Rebecca Arnold (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)The Politics of the First: The Emergence of the Black Model in the Civil Rights EraJanice M. Cheddie (Goldsmiths College, University of London)On the Turn: Millenial Bodies and the Meaning of Time in Andrea Giacobbe's Fashion PhotographyTraces the influence of new media, including digital photography, upon the world of fashion photography and its impact on how the world is depicted and conceived.Paul Jobling (University of Brighton)Bloody Jumpers: Benetton and the Mechanics of Cultural ExclusionExplores Bennetton's controversial 'Shock of Reality' campaign including AIDS/HIV ads, during the early 1990s.Paul Antick (University of Middlesex)"Put in Just for Pictures": Fashion Editorial and the Composite Image in Nova, 1965-1975A timely look at the treatment of fashion within the recently re-launched Nova magazine and its relationship with the original version.Alice Beard (Kingston University)
