Fashioning Fiction May 7, 2004 | Archives Last evening, Susan Kismaric and Eva Respini treated the group to an exceptional walkthrough of their exhibition Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, which the JAs helped to fund. Susan and Eva discussed how after countless hours of research of fashion photography in magazines and advertising over time, they noticed two themes emerge, upon which the show is based: the snapshot and the cinematic. They went on to describe how a transformation in fashion photography occurred in the 90s along these two lines of thought, the result being intriguing new work by both commercial and fine art photographers alike, to which the fashion civilian could actually relate. Case in point, Juergen Teller’s series “The Clients” shows patrons of haute couture dressed to the nines but without the aid of photo retouching. Gone then is the impression that such clothes only exist on fashion models in magazines, and in its place is the notion of something more human and real. Susan and Eva also tossed in a few snipits of behind-the-scenes tales, such as attending a photo shoot of Kate Moss for W magazine, and their own personal experiences with fashion magazines over time and internationally. Back To Blog Main Page   Past Entries 2007 Archives Back To Blog Main Page