10 Facts About Fashion photography

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Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items.

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Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle.

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Fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

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Fashion photography has been in existence since the earliest days of photography.

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Fashion photography has now become such a popular thing in society, especially with new fashion icons and fashion trends going around.

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Fashion photography made its first appearance in French and American magazines such as La mode pratique and Harper's Bazaar.

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Richard Avedon revolutionized fashion photography — and redefined the role of the fashion photographer — in the post-World War II era with his imaginative images of the modern woman.

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Cecil Beaton's 'Fashion photography is Indestructible' from 1941 displays a well-dressed woman viewing the rubble that once was Middle Temple in London.

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In postwar London, John French pioneered a new form of fashion photography suited to reproduction in newsprint, involving natural light and low contrast.

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Some notable women in fashion photography include Louise Dahl-Wolfe, whose work in Harper's Bazaar introduced various compositions and aesthetics to the field.

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