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Exhibition: Archeology of Elegance
date 26.04.2002 – 25.08.2002
location Deichtorhallen Hamburg
creation Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Museum)
curator
url www.deichtorhallen.de/ausstellungen/Archeology.htm

text The exhibition “Archeology of Elegance” deals with the correlation between art and fashion of the last 20 years of photography. With around 150 images, it shows the most succinct and influential photographic positions which have visually memorised the 80s and 90s like a kind of time code.

In the past 20 years, there has been a big change in fashion photography. Increasingly, the focus of production is not just the reproducing depiction of clothes and accessories, but the transformation of an attitude, a lifestyle into an image. This tendency can also be seen in the new types of fashion and lifestyle magazines which have established themselves since the 80s with titles such as “Face”, “ID” and “Wallpaper”. Most of the photographers shown in the... [more]


images

  1 © Schirmer/Mosel Verlag / Photo: Ines Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, 2 © Schirmer/Mosel Verlag / Photo: J. Vallhonrat, 3 © Schirmer/Mosel Verlag / Photo: David Lachapelle, 4 © Schirmer/Mosel Verlag / Photo: Nick Knight

participants Raf Simons (Fashion Design)
contribution


source
Hochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim


 
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