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Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
by Gross, Michael | HC | Good
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- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
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- ISBN
- 1476763461
- Book Title
- Focus : the Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Photography, Design, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Fashion & Accessories, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Subjects & Themes / Fashion
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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In this rollicking account of fashion photography's golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune , Michael Gross, brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera. Before Instagram was an art form, fashion photographers and the models they made famous were pop culture royalty. From the postwar covers of Vogue to the triumph of the digital image, the fashion photographer sold not only clothes but ideals of beauty and visions of perfect lives. Even when they succumbed to temptation and excess--and did they ever--the very few photographers who rose to the top were artists, above all. Focus probes the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen of fashion photography's greatest visionaries: Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, David Bailey, Bill King, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Gilles Bensimon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Corinne Day, Bob and Terry Richardson, and more. From Avedon's haute couture fantasies and telling portraits to Weber's sensual, intimate, and heroic slices of life, and from Bob Richardson's provocations to his son Terry's transgressions, Focus takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the revolutionary creative processes and fraught private passions of these visionary magicians. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Condé Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depicts--perhaps most importantly--the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artist's vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.
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Publisher
Atria Books
ISBN-10
1476763461
ISBN-13
9781476763460
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219310927
Product Key Features
Book Title
Focus : the Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Fashion & Accessories, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Subjects & Themes / Fashion
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Photography, Design, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Tr139.G76 2016
Reviews
A cultural history of how photography shaped the rest of the fashion industry... a survey of men behaving badly...Gross captures so well the century-long rivalry between Vogue and Harper's Bazaar... Important., A gossipy exposé … of the talented, arrogant, philandering, combative, self-aggrandizing photographers whose work appeared in, and defined, such iconic fashion magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Glamour, and Elle from 1947 to 1997. Not a pretty picture of sex, drugs, beautiful women, and raw ambition., Michael Gross takes us on a compelling journey through a hugely desirable culture--a culture which sometimes destroyed its most brilliant children and which is now slipping as irretrievably into the past as Versailles or the Swinging '60s., Amazing... a phantasmagoria of gossip, history, fabulous times, terrible times; the men (and a couple of women) who turned their creative lenses onto runways, clothes, models and (as in the case of Richard Avedon) onto America itself... If you love fashion and/or the art of photography, this book is for you. Focus gives us page after page of down and delicious dish... Gross captures the bizarre hot-house intensity of an industry that is both ever-changing but eternally the same... This is a big, intelligent, exhaustively researched, lovingly written book... Focus finds the fire beneath the ice of glossy magazine pages, and does it without burning down the house., Michael Gross takes us on a compelling journey through a hugely desirable culture-a culture which sometimes destroyed its most brilliant children and which is now slipping as irretrievably into the past as Versailles or the Swinging '60s., Advance Praise for Focus "I thought I knew practically everything about the fashion industry, but Michael Gross has corrected me. His thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read!", Laying bare friendships, breakups, rivalries, and liaisons among fashion photographers over the past six decades, ...interweaving anecdotes, interviews, and images by renowned photographers like Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Corinne Day, Focus delves into the stories behind their cameras, exposing both their unparalleled talents and private affairs., A gossipy exposé ... of the talented, arrogant, philandering, combative, self-aggrandizing photographers whose work appeared in, and defined, such iconic fashion magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Glamour, and Elle from 1947 to 1997. Not a pretty picture of sex, drugs, beautiful women, and raw ambition., Tales of famous shoots and industry backstories during the 'glory days' of the genre… of the sexual promiscuity and recreational drug use of these (mostly male) photographers… The subject matter will be historically significant to those who are concerned with the photo artist's role in the golden age of modern fashion photography. VERDICT Recommended for enthusiasts of fashion and fashion photography., Does not skimp on the gossipy goods. There are descents into madness, prolific drug use, orgies, blackmail photos and suicide attempts...But this book...is also smart, well-researched and written with an insider's eye...engaging and on point., An often-shocking tale rife with bed-hopping hotties, rampant drug use and cut-throat antics. Gross knows his stuff, delving deep into the fascinating rivalries and wicked manipulations that take place behind the cameras., This is the best book on the real world of top photographers in the fashion industry ever. Having hired and worked with many of them covered in Michael's book I can tell you the back stories are mind blowing. Anyone remotely connected to fashion should read his book!, An exciting read, full of anecdotes and whispers of a fashion era long gone, a must for photography enthusiasts, magazine historians, fashionistas, and lovers of haute couture gossip., A juicy history of the scandalous lives of fashion photographers. He is nearly encyclopedic in his approach, covering a dizzying number of photographers . . . anyone interested in fashion and/or photography will find Gross' full immersion fascinating., I loved reading all the juicy details that Michael uncovered in this fast-paced-and clearly insider-look at the rarefied, sexy world of fashion photography., I loved reading all the juicy details that Michael uncovered in this fast-paced--and clearly insider--look at the rarefied, sexy world of fashion photography., A gossipy expos … of the talented, arrogant, philandering, combative, self-aggrandizing photographers whose work appeared in, and defined, such iconic fashion magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Glamour, and Elle from 1947 to 1997. Not a pretty picture of sex, drugs, beautiful women, and raw ambition., Gross has deftly woven an intricate web of fashion, photography, and magazine publishing that is simply unrivaled... Focus is a sensation... [It] brilliantly blends the wild histories of seemingly disparate lives... Gross is a modern-day Vasari, giving us The Lives of the Artists in no small measure., Michael Gross's FOCUS is that rare thing: an equally delicious and deeply informative book, a news-breaking romp through the world of fashion photography, from its beginnings early in the last century to the recent controversial exploits of super bad boy Terry Richardson. Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel: these and so many others whose work I've enjoyed in VOGUE and BAZAAR are given context and smart analysis, and magazine editors and owners appear, too, revealing an industry of art and commerce. An outstanding work of cultural history., Wine, women and song. Boys too, if required. Not to mention drugs. Cool dudes, flashy cars, psycho-tempers, and sex everywhere to choose from. Work junkets all over the world and surrounded by beautiful people looking up at them rather than vice versa, The photographers were the real story., Tales of famous shoots and industry backstories during the 'glory days' of the genre... of the sexual promiscuity and recreational drug use of these (mostly male) photographers... The subject matter will be historically significant to those who are concerned with the photo artist's role in the golden age of modern fashion photography. VERDICT Recommended for enthusiasts of fashion and fashion photography.
Copyright Date
2016
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