Heinrich Kühn :: Lotte and Her Nurse, duplex half tone reproduction, published in Camera Work n• XXXIII, 1911. | src FostinumHeinrich Kühn :: Mary Warner und Lotte Kühn, um 1911. Japanpapier. Edeldruckverfahren (Gummigravüre); signiert: recto o.: in Braun: “HEINRICH / KUEHN”; beschriftet: verso u.: in Blei: “Miß [sic] Mary + Lotte Kühn. | src MK&G~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Sigismund Blumann :: Vera in the Woods, bromoil print, 1920-1925. | src Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Accession # 99.231.15. | variant of the previous image
Arnold Genthe (1869 – 1942) :: Miss Tillie Losch and Harald Kreutzberg , 1927. Gelatin silver print. Inscriptions on verso, lower center, in pencil: “108”; lower right, in pencil: “Genthe 14”. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911The First Modern Fashion Photography Shoot. Paul Poiret by Edward Steichen, 1911
In 1911, publisher Lucien Vogel dared photographer Edward Steichen to promote fashion as a fine art in his work. Steichen responded by snapping photos of gowns designed by leading French fashion designer Paul Poiret, hauntingly backlit and shot at inventive angles.
The photographs were published in the April 1911 issue of the magazine Art et Décoration. According to historian Jesse Alexander, the occasion is:
“now considered to be the first ever modern fashion photography shoot,”
The garments were imaged as much for their artistic quality as their formal appearance
Edward Steichen, L’Art de la Robe by Paul Poiret in Art et Décoration, 1911 via
Edward Steichen, L’Art de la Robe by Paul Poiret in Art et Décoration, 1911 via
Edward Steichen, L’Art de la Robe by Paul Poiret in Art et Décoration, 1911 via
Edward Steichen, L’Art de la Robe by Paul Poiret in Art et Décoration, 1911 via
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