By Jefferson Hack

A collection of Another Magazine’s most iconic fashion spreads over a ten year period. The magazine is widely known for constant innovation and unique images combining the critical eye of fashion and the artistic one, the most influential examples of this were carefully selected and gathered in this book.

By Patrick Remy

A unique examination of works by the most innovative fashion photographers; artists who have found ground breaking ways of combining their own artistic pursuits with the ever evolving commercial demands of the industry. Through this book select photographers are described and credited for the great impacts they have made in the evolution of trends in fashion and print media.

By Richard Avedon

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 honours and archives the significant career achievements of the extraordinarily influential 20th century photographer, Richard Avedon, whose career spanned an impressive seven decades. The book was published to accompany an exhibition of Avedon’s fashion photography at the International Center of Photography in May 2009. Alongside critical essays by famed photography critic Vince Aletti and the curator at the ICP, Carol Squiers, the book includes a meticulously selected array of photographs from Avedon’s iconic body of fashion industry work. The book features his early works for Harper’s Bazaar alongside his ingenious contributions to Vogue and The New Yorker.

By Naomi Rosenblum

This book serves as somewhat of an encyclopaedia for photography. Recounting the entire world history of the medium, the book covers from the camera lucida to the newest forms of computer photography investigating photography across all areas of the globe. It includes over 800 photographs by men and women from renowned photographers to emerging artists, selecting the most significant developments in the evolution of photography. Rosenblum considers the role of photography in communication of ideas and how these have changed, taking a deeper look into areas such as advertising, photojournalism, and portraiture.

By Jean-Claude Gautrand

Including an essay on his personal life and career, this book contains the photographic world of Brassai. Sorted into thematic chapters; Minotaure magazine, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, Artists of My Life, and Graffiti and Transmutations, the book explores the unfiltered lens of the Hungarian born photographer, known for his images of those struggling and marginalised by society. The post-World War I photographer was a member of the cultural elite in Paris, socialising with individuals such as Picasso, Miller and Sartre to name a few. Brassai’s gritty photographs present realities of life worlds apart from his own.

By Eugenie Shinkle

Here are the few words presenting the book:

“Fashion photography captures our desires and fantasies for how we present ourselves ti the world, reflecting the changing values of our culture and society.

Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures explores the profound influence that fashion photography had on us for over a century, presenting its evolution as a language, and a genre, while showcasing some of its most glamourous moments. Featuring works by important fashion photographers of the past, alongside those shaping contemporary taste today - including Richard Avedon, Horst P Horst, William Klein, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Chris von Wangenheim, Steven Meisel, Corine Day, and Juergen Teller, to name a few- fashion chronicler Eugenie Shinkle illuminates each photographer and their place in the bigger picture.”

This book is excellent in highlighting key fundamental images that had a profound impact on the History of Fashion photography and society. Organized in chronological order, it focuses on the artists and their masterpieces. It is bold in its choices and simplified vision of Fashion photography and its history. It was very well written by Eugenie Shinkle who achieve to make her book both educative and accessible, one that can be read step by step and revisited on a regular basis.

By Derek Blasberg

Harper's Bazaar Models is a selection of twenty eight female fashion models that have been published in Harper’s Bazaar magazine since its launch sixty years ago. The publication has a diverse history, employing women of different races, backgrounds, and sizes; iconic models such as Dovima, Iman, Patti Hansen, and Cindy Crawford.

Blasberg includes 200 stunning photographs along with written essays. Images shot by top photographers like Richard Avedon. Filled with archived images, Harper's Bazaar describes the book as such, “ Models is a celebration of the gorgeous women who have lent so much inspiration and beauty to the pages of this visionary magazine.”

By Helmut Newton

This colossal volume is one of the largest book productions of the 20th century, featuring over 400 images dedicated to the life and works of the ground-breaking photographer Helmut Newton. Featuring works from every aspect of Newton’scontroversial yet pioneeringphotographic career, the book publishes his fashion photography, nudes, and celebrity portraits. The TASCHEN page turner was edited by June Newton, fellow artist and wife of Helmut Newton and serves as a tribute to his legacy on photography and society.

By Anna Wintour and Susan Brown

A celebration and tribute to the spectacular career of Horst P. Horst, one of the most significant contributors to Vogue magazine and a pioneering fine art photographer. The book features both Horst’s iconic works of fashion photography and his artistic oeuvre which is infused with Surrealist and Hellenic fascinations. Horst’s works blurred the lines and showcased the intersections between art, fashion, popular culture, and high society, as his sixty-year long career consistently landed his works in the pages of Vogue and other top publications.

By Paul Martineau

Written by experts in photography and fashion history, this book is an essential book to learn bout Fashion Photography. Gathering over three hundred fashion photography images from the past hundred years, it is organized by key chronological eras with a parallel perspective on culture and society at the time. It includes images by the most influential photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Many Ray, Horst P horst, Louise Dahl Wolfe, Irving Penn, Lillian Bassman, Richard Avedon, Gyu Bourdin, Helmut Newton, Chris von Wangenheim, Bruce Weber, Herb RittsSteven Klein, Met& Marcus, Tim Walker, Scott Schuman and many more. It also introduces many important but lesser-known figures and includes delightfully detailed analyses of their works.

Foreword by Timothy Potts, Director, The J. Paul Getty Museum (extracts)

Long neglected by collectors and museums because of its commercial purposes, fashion photography is now recognized as having produced some of the most creative photography of the twentieth century, transcending its illustrative function to yield images of distinctive artistic quality. (…)

Art museums however have been slow to embrace fashion as the equal of portraiture, landscape, abstraction, street photography, and photojournalism, which have been assiduously collected and displayed for most of photography’s history. The time seems ripe to address this situation through an overview of the fines fashion photography of the past century that gives a historical perspective to the genre as a whole and provides the context in which its major achievements can stand out.

By Colin Westerbeck

The works of the great American photographer Irving Penn have somewhat become documents of the 20th century, as his photographs defined an era in fashion, photography, art, and journalism. This book comprises of nearly 200 of Penn’s photographs alongside personal essays and reflections written by his collaborators and those close to him during his lifetime. After donating his professional archives to the Art Institute of Chicago, this book was published in accordance with an exhibition to celebrate and study the photographers unique career achievements.

By Maria Morris Hambourg

A chronicle of Irving Penn’s legendary and era defining career, as one of the most successful photographers of the 20th century with the longest tenure at Vogue magazine in history. To celebrate the centennial of Penn’s birth, this book features a volume of works spanning his nearly 70-year career and includes his most iconic and well-loved photographs alongside images never published prior to this work. Featuring nearly 300 of Penn’s photographs, the book is one of the most comprehensive retrospective catalogues of the great American photographer, bringing deeper understanding to his works as they are situated within their appropriate historical, artistic, and political contexts.

By Vince Aletti

A showcase of ground-breaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century. The renowned photography critic Vince Aletti carefully combed through his personal archive and chose 100 meaningful magazine issues from his expansive collection, publishing images that investigate a previously overlooked angle of the history of photography through the lens of fashion. The book itself is a work of art as its glossy pages come enclosed in an archival-style magazine file box, echoing its purpose as a contribution to history. Featured publications include: American, British, and French Vogue ,Harper's Bazaar , and W magazine.

By Vogue editors

To celebrate the magazine’s centennial anniversary, On The Edge Images from 100 Years of Vogue presents a visual history of Vogue Magazine told through a collection of over 200 pictures from the Vogue archive. The visual album comprises works of the finest photographers of the 20th century, including Edward Streichen, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber and Richard Avedon.

By Irving Penn

From Dust cover: At age 74, reflecting on a career that spans more than half a century, one of the foremost photographers of our time has brought together for this book the images that most powerfully speak for him over the years. He has accompanied them with his own recollections.

This book is an excellent one to understand the grand master of photography Irving Penn, the breath of his work, his approach to his work and to life. The images in this book, chosen by the artist himself as a retrospective of his work, shows the consistency of his demanding style that was so revolutionary . The foreword by Alexander Liberman, who was the editorial director of the Conde Nast Publications shares his 48 years collaboration with Irving Penn in a way that brings a clear understanding of the photographer.

By Deborah Willis

In over 200 images Deborah Willis calls on a world of black beauty, a world many never even considered. Including historical figures like Billie Holiday, civil rights activists such as Angela Davis , and influential subjects from the present like Denzel Washington and Michelle Obama, while also celebrating the barber shop. The book protests the most fundamental constructs that define beauty in society and highlights the gaping lack of black coverage within its definition.

By Marcellas Reynolds

Written by Marcellas Reynolds and devoted solely to celebrating influential and groundbreaking black models in the fashion industry from the last 75 years, Supreme Models is the first art book honoring exposing the impact and importance of black fashion models throughout history and the present. It recounts the careers of the first black women to be featured in fashion spreads, such as Iman and black supermodels who dominated in the nineties, such as Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks.

The book also beholds black fashion models who are on the rise today; women who are advocating for racial equality and exposing the prejudices that they have faced as black women in the modeling and fashion industry.

“Supreme Models defines the importance of the black model not just to Fashion and culture, but also as an agent of change for how all people of color are seen globally.'“ Naomi Campbell

By Nancy Hall Duncan

One of the first books covering the history of Fashion Photography, this book that includes a preface by Yves Saint Laurent is a critical book to read if you want to learn about Fashion Photography

Dust jacket notes: "The first systematic history of fashion photography, this perceptively written and superbly illustrated book deals not only with the somersaults of fashion but with changing trends in photography and in art taste, manners, and social customs.

Exploding the theory that commercial photography is not art. Nancy Hall Duncan shows that many of the world's most celebrated 'art' photographers, among them Andre Kertesz , Edward Steichen, Man Ray, George Platt Lynes, and Diane Arbus, also portrayed fashion. Her absorbing account covers the entire history of the genre, beginning in Paris in the 1850s, when fashion photographs were used mainly to document designs, and continuing up to the 1970s.

By Antwaun Sargent

Antwaun Sargent discusses the inclusion of black models in the fashion and art industry and the resulting transformation of relevant media coverage; specifically the increase in diverse imagery shot by international Black photographers. Through her illustrated essay, Sargent sheds light on the position of Black models in the industry and the entanglements between art, fashion, and culture relevant when constructing a photograph. As well as the impediments that have historically obstructed black photographers’ immersion in the fashion and art industries.

Interviews include Campbell Addy, Jamal Nxedlana, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Renell Medrano, Mickalene Thomas, Quil Lemons, Deborah Willis, Tyler Mitchell, Daniel Obasi, Stephen Tayo.

By Graydon Carter

Beginning with the magazine’s inception in 1913, Vanity Fair 100 Years spans the century long history of the magazine, working through each decade from the Jazz age, the Depression, the Reagan presidency and Our Age, currently defined the circulation of visual imagery like never before via social media.

The book includes works from some of the boldest and most successful photographers, artists, illustrators, and editors of our time. The retrospective book also, of course, includes a comprehensive history of the magazine’s famous Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

“The book is a stunning artifact that begets staring, less for the words and publishing industry than as an exercise in visual storytelling reflected through the prism of society and celebrity. The best photographers, the best designers, the best illustrators all came together over Vanity Fair’s contents, and the book unfolds in page after page of stunningly rendered images, some iconic and some that never even ran.” New York Times Book Review

By Conde Nast

A commemoration of fashion editors’ constant role in guiding style trends in America since the magazine launched 120 years ago. Focusing on eight of their most influential fashion editors’ works such as Polly Mellen and Grace Coddington and featuring the work of internationally renowned photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn as well as infamous models like Marilyn Monroe and Linda Evangelista.

The Editor’s Eye provides a candid and privileged look inside the workings of fashion photography and the creative minds that have produced some of the most exciting images of our time.

“What makes a great fashion image? A new book, The Editor’s Eye , celebrates the work of Vogue’s boundary pushing fashion editors.” Vogue

By Dodie Kazanjian

In the world of Fashion photography , the cover is the ultimate consecration for the photographer and the model. Covers define the trends, personalities, and culture. They are also meant to sell the magazine In this book updated for Vogue’s 125th anniversary An exhibition of Vogue’s various magazine covers since 2010 as well as some classic covers from earlier in the magazine's history.

Unforgettable covers in the book include Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian-West and Kanye West, Lena Dunham, and more.