Guy Bourdin’s portrait of a woman in a sharp hat with three cow’s tongues dangling behind her, David Bailey’s effortlessly cool snaps of Jean Shrimpton hanging out in a white trenchcoat and Clifford Coffin’s graphic bathing-capped women in the sand dunes. What do these images have in common? The Coming into Fashion: A century of Photography at Condé Nast exhibition, which opens in Edinburgh on 15 June, which offers a one-off chance to see highlights from the world’s most nerdishly brilliant magazine collection all in one place.
Guy Bourdin, French Vogue, February 1955.
Photograph: © Estate of Guy Bourdin. Reproduced by permission of Art + Commerce
The work of more than 80 photographers, including Corinne Day, Horst P Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld and Deborah Turbeville will be showcased in the exhibition at the City Art Centre as part of the Edinburgh arts festival. Both tearsheets from the actual magazines and original prints will go on display.
Albert Watson, American Vogue, May 1977. Photograph: Albert Watson/© 1977 Condé Nast
But the shoot pictures aren’t just interesting to the fashion anoraks among us. As curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, who was given unprecedented access to the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris, London and Milan, points out: “Fashion photography reflects the society and the culture of its times. Fashion images mirror the concerns and aspirations of their age.”
The exhibition focuses on the early work of the contributors because Herschdorfer believes fashion photography is a career where photographers are “obliged to be inventive if they wish to avoid repetition. This is not a philosophy that can be learned over time: it applies from the very start.”
Jean Shrimpton shot by David Bailey, American Vogue, April 1962.
Photograph: David Bailey/© 1962 Condé Nast
For Herschdorfer what this diverse but fabulous group of images have in common is that they represent more than the product of a single fashion moment. “Cecil Beaton said that there were two types of fashion photographer: those who chase the fleeting image and those who are mindful of posterity. Unquestionably, the photographers whose works are featured in this exhibition belong to the second category.”
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