Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography FROM THE PUBLISHER
For all the fashion pictures that make it to the pages of Vogue, there are those that don’t. Not because of poor composition or execution, but because the fashion was too oblique, the styling too inventive, the camera technique too pioneering or frequently because the magazine simply ran out of space. Selected from one–and–a–half million images archived at British Vogue, Unseen Vogue presents fashion photographs you have never seen until now. There are unknown works from great photographers: Cecil Beaton, Horst, Norman Parkinson and Lee Miller — these unseen pictures tell the secret history of fashion photography. ﾽEvery important fashion photographer is represented here, including David Bailey, Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel, Juergen Teller and Mario Testino.
Unseen Vogue is a survey of fashion photography unlike any other previously published.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
The world of fashion has been both romanticized and criticized for its ability to project a vision of ideal beauty onto runways, magazines, and fashion books such as this one. But unlike other publications, this one seems to take its cue from the public debate about whether fashion magazines are contributing to the image problem of today's youth by using retouching that turns unusually beautiful women into impossibly perfect ideals. Highlighting the photos "left out" from the pages of British Vogue, the book gives readers a tour of how fashion magazines both choose their photos and change them. While British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman uses her introduction to highlight the gems of the book, Derrick and Muir take a slightly different approach, focusing on fashion photography as art and the history of the Vogue franchise, respectively. Most important, the photos, running from the late 1920s to 2001, are richly showcased: large color prints fill up the page and are accompanied by the name of the photographer, the model, the year, and a small but informative history of the shoot. A great addition to any fashion collection, large or small.-Rachel Collins, "Library Journal" Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
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