Beginning January 8th, Anastasia Photo presents Fashion Lust, documentary photographer, Dina Litovsky’s first solo show in the United States. For decades, Fashion Week has been the ultimate, highly exclusive pageant for the fashion aristocracy. Held twice a year in Paris, Milan, New York and London, its visibility has exploded in recent years with the skyrocketing prevalence of digital cameras and fashion blogs—giving the general public access to this previously private event. Through live social media coverage of the runways, the audience at home has become the new front row VIPs.
Photographed over four seasons, Fashion Lust dismantles the carefully packaged and highly indulgent viral fashion image. Litovsky’s photos investigate the scene where the expertly constructed image of guests rivals the air-brushed glamour of the actual show. With photographers often outnumbering models backstage and front row guests, the appetite to see and be seen extends to everyone in the closed, hectic space of blinding flashes and surveillance-style Instagramming.
Dina Litovsky examines social performances and group interactions in both public and private spaces. Her previous projects include Bachelorette, the exploration of the bachelorette party as a rite of passage; a curious ritual of friendship and status, intimacy and consumerism. Untag This Photo examines how public behavior and personal representation of women have been influenced by the accessibility and availability of electronic media, specifically digital cameras, iphones and networking sites.
Born in Ukraine, Litovsky moved to New York in 1991. After receiving her BA in Psychology from NYU, she earned her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2010. She joined Polaris Images in 2013 and has won many awards including NPPA Best of Photojournalism (2012, 1st Place), PDN Photo Annual (2013) and the International Photography Awards (2011, 1st Place). Most recently she was selected as PDN 30, New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. Her work has been published in Time, The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Stern, Newsweek Japan, Wired, Photo District News and many others. She joined Anastasia Photo in 2012 and has exhibited widely domestically and internationally.
EXHIBITION
Fashion Lust
Photographs by Dina Litovsky
From January 8th to February 26th, 2015
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