THE HISTORY OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

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.