Fashon Photography

Introduction to Fashion Photograpghy

Applications
Fashion photograpghy has been around for a long time since 1830. It first appeared in a french magazine. it first got into grips in 1856 where Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photo's of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. The photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first fashion model. Fashion photography is all about trying to sell a style to you not the clothing.

Toni Frissels photo's
I think Toni photo's are very old style, some are rather odd too. Like an odd one, Two nuns are walking through deep water - i think is image is very odd. Another thing I've noticed about Toni work is he liks taking pictures and adding the underwater look. Whether this pictures have been taken under water - with an underwater camera I don't know but the effect and texture of them are queit mind blowing.
In this image is: I am unable to find their name. Source Google images under Toni Frissell.

Willy Maywaid
Willy Maywald grew up in Cleves and attended from 1928 to 1931, the Berlin school of art of the West ". Then he went to Paris, where he became independent in 1933 and offered his first work illustrated magazines. .
His photography is mostly in black and white - which is good because I think if a photo is in black white you see much more and its more attractive.
In this photo is: Lisa Fonssagrives. Source Google Images.
Here is an example of his work.

Ruth Harriet Louise
Ruth Harriet Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) (January 13, 1903 - 1940) was an American professional photographer, the first woman photographer active in Hollywood; she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. When Louise was hired by M.G.M. as chief portrait photographer in the summer of 1925, she was twenty-two years old, and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted only five years, Louise photographed all the stars, contract players, and many of the hopefuls who passed through the studio's front gates, including Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, and Norma Shearer. It is estimated that she took more than 100,000 photos during her tenure at MGM. Today she is considered an equal with George Hurrell Sr. and other renowned glamour photographers of the era.
In this image is: Ruth Harriet Louise Holly. Source Google images.
NOTE: ( I did get some of this information for Wikipedia, the reason I did this is because i weren't sure how to word it )
Here the Link if needed.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Harriet_Louise

Techniques:
Fashion techniques are the way the fashion photography does things. Each fasion photography has their own techniques, maybe a few are the same but about 75% of the time there not. In fashion photo's are often maipulatized, they often do this for many different reason some can be to make the model look thinner, sexier, to make something bigger or smaller e.g. eyes, lips, nose. Anything they think looks out of place they will change and make it look better. A lot of work goes into fashion manipulation, it can take hours just to change that one image - not all images are but most of the time they are! -

Content
Fashion photography appears everywhere, e.g. magazines, newspapers, bus stops, the internet so many places! Fashion can obviously have a big impact on people, everyone follows fashion celebraitys and the normal avarge people. If a normal person on the street see's a celeb wearing a certain outfit, that person would want to buy it because they've seen someone famous wearing it. They think its fashionable. Fashion photography is used in our everyday lives, it doesn't have to be used in a top photo shoot. Can be used in just posing in pictures with friends but looking good and wearing the right outfit. Thats what fashion photography is.