It’s been two years since our first and last fashion issue. It was a great success, selling out in just a couple of months (although that could be due to the fact that Kate Moss was splashed across the cover, but let’s not dwell).
An interview with Albert Watson, icon of the fashion world and beyond, managed to squeeze us into his busy schedule to answer our burning questions about fashion photography.
Victor Shadow has an extensive collection of old photos and photo books scavenged from flea markets and attics. Every two months he picks a photo suiting our theme and writes a witty anecdote, story, memory etcetera with it. In this GUP he kicks off with a photo, found in a photo frame dating from the eighties.
Fashion always looks back as well as forward. Great photography embraces this with both hands.
As of 1945 Avedon set the standard for fashion photography in the American Harper’s bazaar for twenty years. Avedon, however, was capable of more than pretty fashion photography. ‘Really great fashion photographers are always great photographers, period.’