Beauty and Style

• Miles Aldridge, Crazy Rich Asian’s #1, 2013
  © Miles Aldridge | Courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie
• Erik Madigan Heck, Junya Watanabe (Honeycomb), Old Future, 2015
  © Erik Madigan Heck | Courtesy of Christophe Guye
• Erwin Blumenfeld, Doe Eye, Jean Patchett, Vogue New York, January 1, 1950
  © Erwin Blumenfeld Estate | Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
• Miles Aldridge, The Promise, Vogue Italia, March 2016
  © Miles Aldridge | Courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie
• Guy Bourdin, Vogue, Paris, May 1970
  © The Guy Bourdin Estate 2021 | Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery

From December 12, 2021 to March 13, 2022, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg takes an in-depth look at the illustrious world of fashion photography.

The rise of the fashion industry in the late 20th and early 21st century was accompanied by the development of another phenomenon: fashion photography.
Curated by Dmitry Yuryevich Ozerkov, Head of the State Hermitage's Department of Contemporary Art, the exhibition ‘Beauty and Style. The History of Fashion Photography from the Collection of the Still Art Foundation’ retraces the history of fashion photography from the 1950s onwards. Through selected works from the Collection of the Still Art Foundation, the showcase introduces audiences to some of the genre’s key visual approaches.  

The Still Art Foundation, established by Elena Karisalova in 2018, holds the largest collection of Western fashion photography from the 20th and 21st century in Russia.

On display are numerous original prints by great masters such as Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, and Guy Bourdin, whose works have become definitive icons of fashion photography.

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