IN HIGH FASHION
2009-03-16An exhibition of 175 works by Edward Steichen drawn largely from the Condé Nast archives, this is the first presentation to give serious consideration to the full range of Steichen’s fashion images.
Steichen’s approach to fashion photography was formative and over the course of his career he changed public perceptions of the American woman. An architect of American Modernism and a Pictorialist, Steichen exhibited his fashion images alongside his art photographs. Steichen’s crisp, detailed, high-key style revolutionized fashion photography, and his influence is felt in the field to this day—Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bruce Weber are among his stylistic successors.
Opposite – Model Marion Morehouse and unidentified model wearing dresses by Vionnet, 1930.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May, 2009
International Center Of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
