Selling Dreams & Summer Days
- I.N.T.R.I.G.U.I.N.G -
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Image not my own. Horst P.Horst, originally featured in American Vogue, 1939
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Image not my own. Rankin, originally featured in Dazed & Confused, 1995 |
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Image not my own. Rankin, originally featured in Dazed & Confused, 1996
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Image not my own. Elaine Constantine, originally featured in The Face, 1997 |
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Image not my own. Tim Walker, originally featured in Italian Vogue, 2005
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Image not my own. Steven Klein, originally featured in L'Uomo Vogue, 2006
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Image not my own. Steven Meisel, originally featured in Vogue Italia/limited edition puzzle, 2007 |
I was just going through an old note book and came across a load info about the 'Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography' exhibition that I went to in Bristol last year. At the time I was studying at university and looking at the images with an analytical eye. Now I can look at them with F.R.E.E.D.O.M. which makes me as happy as the '96 Rankin image should make you! (Featured 3rd on this blog post.) Above are just a few of the images exhibited at the gallery.
I will not bore you by going in depth about each image but I must point out that Horst wrote, of the iconic image (featured 1st): "It was created by emotion ... It was the last photo I took in Paris before the war ... The photograph is peculiar for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all I was leaving behind." Which gave me shivers down my back at the time. I didn't realise the exact history of the image until going to the exhibition.
On a happier note... How awesome is the Elaine Constantine image? (featured 4th) It reminds me of refusing to wear shoes as a kid and then going bare foot on my bike. Then hours later as the sun was going down, I would return home with grazed toes and a half melted Mr Freeze ice pop! S.U.M.M.E.R D.A.Y.S!
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