Seeing Fashion

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At
the age of twenty-one, photographer Melvin Sokolsky joined the prestigious staff of Harper's Bazaar, whose art department was then led by legendary art director, Henry Wolf. Sokolsky's unique take on fashion was quite different from fellow photographers, Hiro, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon. His work took the mundane and transformed it into the marvelous, in a style that today seems ethereal and otherworldly. Women in bubbles floating across the Seine; women flying uncontrollably through the air; rooms constructed as to appear upside down; and household objects magnified to colossal proportions are all part of the bizarre perspective that infuses Sokolsky's memorable fashion photographs. Using the famed Kodachrome 10—with its incredibly fine grain and super-saturated color—Sokolsky's images bring back a unique period of American fashion photography, with a distinctly 1960s "look."
Among the fashion and screen personalities included are Mia Farrow, All McGraw, Twiggy,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

At
the age of twenty-one, photographer Melvin Sokolsky joined the prestigious staff of Harper's Bazaar, whose art department was then led by legendary art director, Henry Wolf. Sokolsky's unique take on fashion was quite different from fellow photographers, Hiro, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon. His work took the mundane and transformed it into the marvelous, in a style that today seems ethereal and otherworldly. Women in bubbles floating across the Seine; women flying uncontrollably through the air; rooms constructed as to appear upside down; and household objects magnified to colossal proportions are all part of the bizarre perspective that infuses Sokolsky's memorable fashion photographs. Using the famed Kodachrome 10—with its incredibly fine grain and super-saturated color—Sokolsky's images bring back a unique period of American fashion photography, with a distinctly 1960s "look."
Among the fashion and screen personalities included are Mia Farrow, All McGraw, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Dustin Hoffman, Chet Baker, Lena Home, Natalie Wood, Shere Hite, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Suzie Parker, Julie Christie, Lee Remick, and numerous others. This book, the first retrospective of Sokolsky's fashion photography, represents another major rediscovery of one of America's finest imagemakers, and underscores how influential Sokolsky was on numerous photographers that followed, including David Lachapelle, Bruce Weber, and Sheila IVIetzner. Vissza