Lisa Lovatt-Smith Ordre des livres

Fashion photography's pervasive presence has brought the intimate aesthetics of post-80s realism into everybody's lives. This year's Fashion Images de Mode, the fourth volume of an annual series, showcases emerging as well as established photographers. Editor Lisa Lovatt-Smith presents photographs which capture the new directions in current fashion media, such as an increasingly subjective photographer's eye and a heightened reliance on digital image manipulation. This edition includes an introduction by renowned writer Susan Sontag, an essay by Patrick Remy, and sections devoted to prominent photographers Steve Hiett, Phil Poynter, Sean Ellis, Anette Aurell, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, Melodie McDaniel, Nathaniel Goldberg, Terry Richardson, Jack Pierson, Peter Lindbergh, David La Chapelle, and Mario Testino.

Fashion Images de Mode is fashion's visual memory. It collects the very best fashion images of 1997 taken by the very best photographers. With a pertinent introduction by fashion guru Stephen Gan, Fashion Images de Mode No. 3 takes off by examining the recent phenomenon of British supremacy in art direction, photography, and fashion with an, A to Z of London's wildest. Other tests include an examination of sex and violence in fashion imagery and the related boom in Japanese "school girl" photography. The worlds of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vindoodh Matadin are explored by art critic Benjamin Weil; cutting edge fashion illustration make its debut in the book with a much anticipated twenty-four page portfolio; and the most brilliant fashion photographers edit their own work.

Time passes and magazines come and go. But certain images endure, imprinted somewhere in our memory. At the end of each year, Fashion Images de Mode archives these extraordinary images and saves the outstanding work of the previous seasons. This year's edition features the most striking and original photos that were taken by photographers like Jean-Paul Goude, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, Inez van Lamsweerde, Peter Lindbergh, Craig McDean, Helmut Newton, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, and Ellen von Unwerth. 260 color photos.

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