Our Collection Selection Boxes are a unique opportunity to handle original prints, drawings and photographs from our collection. These resources contain carefully curated material that introduces a particular period, style, material, or technique, and are available for individual study or group teaching.
Box 1: Fashion Photography (1910 – 45)
This box contains a selection of works by photographers working in fashion between 1910 and 1945. The works cover a range of photographic styles and techniques, showing the influences of artistic movements such as Aestheticism, Modernism and Surrealism upon commercial fashion photography.
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Box 2: Fashion Photography (1945 – 80)
This box contains a selection of works by photographers working in fashion between 1945 and 1980. The works chart the development of fashion photography after the Second World War and the popularisation of an increasingly innovative vision. Fashion photography became less inhibited and more instinctive in these decades that brought the Modern era into the Contemporary era.
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Box 3: Fashion Photography (1980 – Present)
This box contains a selection of works by photographers working in fashion from 1980 up until present day. The works demonstrate increasingly varied approaches to contemporary fashion photography, from elaborate studio shoots to spontaneous street photography. They also represent the move to promote a general aesthetic, trend or lifestyle over individual garments or designers.
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