The Decline of Fashion

While searching the web, I found this link “fashion-slide-show” by Karen Lehrman (A writer), which communicates her idea of the decline of fashion photography.

There are 28 slides each of them expressing the writer’s opinion. Karen states that the famous 1951 Irving Penn’s Vogue cover (as seen above) was recently sold for $28,750 at auction while David’s LaChapelle’s was only sold for $3000“ Critics say that today’s fashion photographers see themselves as the artists, “while Golden Age predecessors thought they were just working for the living “.

The Karen Lehrman’s “fashion-slide-show” is an amusing and ironic story about how fashion photography has changed from something that was beautiful and unreachable to something ordinary and even shocking.

As the photography genius Helmut Newton once said: “Some people’s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that’s fine. But that’s not why I do them. I’m a gun for hire.” (Newsweek, 2004)