FACE OF FASHION
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Topic: Fashion Photography
Sort Desciption: In addition, interviews, email exchanges, and descriptions of the process by the photographers and subjects themselves provide rare insight into the potent mix of fame, fashion, and photography seen here
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FACE OF FASHION
Photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein,
Paolo Roversi, and Mario Sorrenti
By Susan Bright
Essay by Vince Aletti
Any fashion photographer can make a flattering portrait, but the contemporary masters featured
in Face of Fashion (Aperture, April 2007) dont even try. This striking volume presents the
intensely unconventional, often unnervingly intimate portraiture being made by some of todays
most creative and original fashion photographers.
Each photographer is represented by a range of portraits, including several commissioned
especially for this book. Some of these portraits were produced as ads, others were
commissioned for editorial features. Many of the subjects are celebrities—Kate Moss by
Corinne Day, Madonna by Steven Klein and by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Sting by
Paolo Roversi; others are as anonymous as Mario Sorrentis Woman I. Essays by Susan Bright
and Vince Aletti illuminate the collaborative nature of this radical new approach to portraiture,
as well as how it diverges from earlier work by Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and
others. In addition, interviews, email exchanges, and descriptions of the process by the
photographers and subjects themselves provide rare insight into the potent mix of fame, fashion,
and photography seen here.
Susan Bright is an independent writer and curator. She was previously assistant curator
of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is author of the recent
Art Photography Now (Thames and Hudson/Aperture) .
Vince Aletti writes about photography for Aperture magazine, Modern Painters, the New
Yorker, and Photograph. He is the recipient of the 2005 Infinity Award for writing from the
International Center of Photography.
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, based in London, have had a creative partnership
since the late 1990s. After their first big break with Visionaire, they have become known for
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