This show at the State Hermitage draws on the vast collection of the Still Art Foundation to explore how the art of fashion photography has developed from the late 1930s to the present day. The show begins with Horst P. Horst’s influential Mainbocher Corset (1939), which bears the influence of Surrealism while also anticipating the famous Vogue covers created by Irving Penn and Erwin Blumenfeld in the 1950s, a selection of which are also on display here; the exhibition then continues with the work of Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Noe Sendas and many others, exploring how fashion photography expanded as the century wore on to take in a range of subcultures (…)
Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg
S. Petersburg, Russia