For the past century, Condé Nast, the publisher behind magazines like Vogue and Glamour, has played a key role in fashion photography thanks to editors-in-chief and art directors like Edna Woolman Chase, Diana Vreeland and Alexander Liberman. They showcased the work of young photographers who captured the Zeitgeist of the day: Horst P. Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Corinne Day, Deborah Turbeville or Sølve Sundsbø, to name but a few.
By showcasing these iconic photographs which have left their mark on the history of fashion and its representation, this book sheds new light on a field of photography that has never stopped innovating.
Edited by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Papier Glacé presents readers with a selection of images from over 80 photographers, along with the magazine pages on which they were originally published, as well as essays by Olivier Saillard and Sylvie Lécallier, director and head photo curator at the Palais Galliera, respectively, and an exclusive interivew with Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia.
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in photography. She is currently the director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle in Switzerland. In 2010, she was named director of the Swiss photography festival Alt. +1000 and programmed two editions. She works as a curator of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP). For twelve years, she was a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne.
BOOK
Coming into Fashion, A Century of Photography at Condé Nast
Edited by Nathalie Herschorfer
With essays by Olivier Saillard and Sylvie Lécallier
Interview with Franca Sozzani
Thames & Hudson (October 2012)
206 pages, 208 photographs, 103 in colour
Available in French, English, German, Italian and Russian
ISBN: 9780500544174
