Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Conculsion



This concludes Fashion Media. Thank you Walter Pfeiffer for joining our course. See more of our Hero.

Friday, August 10, 2012

VI. Values in Fashion Photography

Love & Truth in Photography









Gadamer, Truth & Method












 Dick Hebdige , Subculture: The Meaning of Style




Subcultures are both authentic and mediated. The re-presentation of subcultural style is part of the game of fashion and fashion photography.







The punk subculture transfered the establishment tarten to a new system of rebellion and fashion that liberate plaid and gavie it a new life and presence in fashion and fashion photography.




Subcultural re-presentation "validates" the groups historic place in history according to Hebdige. Here documentay photos of May 1968 are re-used.





Susan Sontag on Camp









V. Realism & Fashion Photography






Interview Magazine, introduced in limited number and distributed by hand, was a key shift in fashion media. A lifestyle magazine, it placed emphasis on fashion figures in real life settings.




Warhol's polaroids served as both studies for paintings and documentation of his world.



Bob Richardson










Above i-D by Terry Jones introduced street photography, followed by many like Fruits below.



Above and below Corinne Day