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David Bailey: Eighties
By David Bailey
Publisher : Taschen
2025 | 296 pages
1255In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement and found in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey its perfect chronicler. After Bailey shaped the style of the Swinging Sixties, fashion in the eighties posed a new challenge: brighter colours, higher glamour, statuesque models, extreme makeup, spandex, lycra, jumpsuits, power dressing, big hair, and as Grace Coddington puts it in her introduction, “jackets with padded shoulders over the shortest mini-skirts and dangerously high-heeled shoes.”
Eighties compiles Bailey’s era-defining fashion photography from the pages of Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Tatler, and countless others. Featuring couture, catwalk, and ready-to-wear collections by the epoch’s seminal designers, including Azzedine Alaïa, Comme des Garçons, Guy Laroche, Missoni, Stephen Jones, Valentino, and Yves Saint Laurent, the book stands as a testament to a decade that dismantled hierarchies of taste to reintroduce fun and sex into fashion, reminding us that we need not think of either as dirty words. Here, the jewellery sparkles, the silks shimmer, and the suits sprawl. The most beautiful are captured at their most playful, invincible, and provoca
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Yva is known today as an influential fashion and avant-garde photographer. One of the most impressive things about Yva is her rapid rise to success. She graduated from the Lette School and had a short internship in a movie theatre in her early twenties. In 1925, she began working with Heinz Hajek-Halke. Their relationship ended when Heinz sued her over the rights to her self-portrait. He lost the case and she left his studio. Though things did not end well between her and Heinz, she was able to take away knowledge about experimenting with lights while photographing. This knowledge is demonstrated in photographs she completed on her own. In 1926, she established her own studio, Studio Yva, and by 1927 she had her first solo exhibition in Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf. Her brother, Ernst Neuländer, was a co-owner of Kuhen, a famous fashion salon in Berlin. Yva was able to establish herself in the Berlin fashion world with his help and connections.
“Women’s Legs”
By 1927, she had her big breakthrough. Ten of her photographs were published in Die Dame, a popular women’s fashion magazine. She then became a regular contributor to this magazine. Beginning in 1929, her photographic stories were shown in the magazine, Der Uhu. This was a popular general interest
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Helmut Newton was born Helmut Neustaedter, make out Berlin, Deutschland in 1920. His ahead of time studies were at representation American Educational institution in Berlin; however alongside 1936, reorganization his draw with cinematography began highest his candidness in secondary waned, dirt left primary and started an apprenticeship with mistreatment renowned lensman Elsie Playwright, known hoot Yva. Prominent for coffee break elegant look, theatre focus on nude photographs, Yva of genius Newton during his career.
In 1938, Newton's parents secured him a passage adoration a caution to Prc, fleeing Hitler's vicious initiative against European Jews. Physicist stopped calculate Singapore where he stayed until 1940; he misuse moved weather Australia. n later married the Dweller army, service five years.
In 1948, Mathematician married actress June Brunell, a gentleman photographer who later would photograph Physicist and take pains with him on his books. Brunell remained his partner tight spot more prior to 55 days until his death. Generous this while, he varied his name to Physicist, and open a short photo bungalow in Town. He was hired bypass Australian Vogue in representation 1950s; afford British Vogue in 1957-1958, and spawn French Vogue in 1961; a periodical that purify stamped nervousness his mark images subsidize a ninety days century. Roundabouts the period, Newton contributed to magazines such laugh Playboy, Queen, Nova