Wednesday 12 October 2011

Fashion Photography

General History of Fashion Photography
Fashion Photography is a type of photography keen to displaying clothing and other fashion bits and pieces . Also fashion photography is most often used for advertisement or fashion magazine such as Vogue. This is because they want to make profit aswell as producing a new range of product. fashion has a meaning it becames referential, a story where real life becomes art like in acting out dreams. Fashion photography also ultimately creates a disappointment of meaning by its establishment of mystery that has no resolution. It produces meaningful signs but does not offer explanation.


I would describe the history of Fashion of photography as creative. This is because they had to show something that was uniquee to the audiences the different types of Fashion photography.  However it is important because photographers can take pictures of a product that is being sold and get it out to the public to be sold.



Cecil Beaton Photographer 
He was an english fashion and portrait photographer.Cecil Beaton was one of the world's most successful portrait and fashion photographers. For five decades he used his flattering lens and acute eye to turn celebrities into timeless icons.

He became an expert in fashion that V&A asked him to assistance in putting together the first fashion exhibition to be held in a major museum, the clothes that Beaton was given for the exhibition formed the basis of the V&A's permanent collection, now world famous.

Also Beaton's business in fashion photography covered five periods. In this time he photographed many Hollywood celebrities as well as the Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor wearing a design by fashion designer Mainbocher.
 

 When is an image a Portrait when is it a fashion photograph?
A portrait images is more of a painting or other artistic symbol of a person and it also display the likeness, personality, and even the frame of mind of the person.This reason in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. i think a portrait images is more of a art picture and its trying to tell a story but a fashion photography is more of selling the product and getting it out there so that customers can see the new style.