Elegance

The Séeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography By Sylvie Aubenas
and Virginie Chardin
and Xavier Demange

9-1/16 x 10-5/8 in; 224 pp ; 300 b/w photographs
Hardcover
Published in March, 2007
ISBN 0811859428
ISBN13 9780811859424

$40.00

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Elegance -- Modern fashion photography was born when three brothers, Parisian postcard photographers, shifted their lenses to the upper echelon of French society in the early twentieth century. As impromptu portraits of beautiful women in inimitable finery at racecourses, resorts, and cafés began to appear in magazines, courant designers such as Chanel, Hermès, and Madeleine Vionnet rushed to send their models to posh watering holes to be photographed with the beau monde. The first-ever showcase of 300 rich black and white Séeberger images, this luxe collection is a must-have for fashionistas, Francophiles, and vintage clothing enthusiasts. Elegance recalls a bygone era of glamour, and illuminates the candid beginnings of a now highly stylized photographic form.

Sylvie Aubenas is a chief curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She lives in Paris.

Virginie Chardin is the author of several photography volumes.

Xavier Demange is an art historian and contributes to numerous museum exhibition catalogs.

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