Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion

Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers

In this rollicking account of fashion photographyâ€™s golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross, brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera.

Before Instagram was an art form, fashion photographers and the models they made famous were pop culture royalty. From the postwar covers of Vogue to the triumph of the digital image, the fashion photographer sold not only clothes but ideals of beauty and visions of perfect lives. Even when they succumbed to temptation and excessâ€”and did they everâ€”the very few photographers who rose to the top were artists, above all.

Focus probes the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen of fashion photographyâ€™s greatest visionaries: Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, David Bailey, Bill King, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Gilles Bensimon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Corinne Day, Bob and Terry Richardson, and more. From Avedonâ€™s haute couture fantasies and telling portraits to Weberâ€™s sensual, intimate, and heroic slices of life, and from Bob Richardsonâ€™s provocations to his son Terryâ€™s transgressions, Focus takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the revolutionary creative processes and fraught private passions of these visionary magicians.

Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like CondÃ© Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depictsâ€”perhaps most importantlyâ€”the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artistâ€™s vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.

Country	USA
Author	Michael Gross
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Atria Books
EAN	9781476763460
Feature	Atria Books
Genre	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN	1476763461
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
MPN	25452674
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	416
PartNumber	25452674
PublicationDate	2016-07-05
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2016-07-05
Studio	Atria Books

Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers

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