Fashion - The Story of a Lifetime

Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen

The exhibition shows images that helped blur the boundaries between advertising and art. It is a sampler from the oeuvre of photographers who have unmistakeably left their mark on fashion photography, and with that on the development of photography in general.

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Noorderlicht Photogallery pays a tribute to fashion photography in its summer exhibition Fashion – The Story of a Lifetime. The exhibition shows vintage work from celebrated international fashion photographers and provides a unique overview of haute couture in the 20th century.
Angela Williams and Michael Hewett, curator and researcher at The Angela Williams Archive, will open the exhibition on 15 July at 5:00 p.m. From 1962 to 1966 Williams was the personal assistant to the fashion photographer Norman Parkinson (1913-1990).

Fashion – The Story of a Lifetime shows images that helped blur the boundaries between advertising and art. It is a sampler from the oeuvre of photographers who have unmistakeably left their mark on fashion photography, and with that on the development of photography in general.

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Noorderlicht brings together work by celebrated names such as Lillian Bassman, F.C. Gundlach, Frank Horvat, William Klein, Sarah Moon, Norman Parkinson, Melvin Sokolsky and Albert Watson. Their iconic photos – spread over the decades – are both timeless and profoundly linked to their times. The photographers introduced a totally new form of fashion photography and at the same time made this into a lifestyle. For them, fashion was literally the “Story of a Lifetime”.

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The exquisite photos that were shot on location in the Middle East are almost a separate chapter.
These photos come primarily from the 1950s and '60s, and are dazzling period pieces, redolent of both a dated Orientalism and a genuine interest in Arab culture.

Partners
FASHION - The Story of Lifetime is a co-production of The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai and Noorderlicht, and was assembled by Hester Keijser. Other partners include Etheleen Staley and Takouhy Wise of Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA; Albert Watson, New York, USA; Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Angela Williams Archive, UK; Stiftung F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany.

Image: F.C. Gundlach - Lissy Schaper for Triumph Tanger/Marocco 1964

For information, visuals and requests for interviews please contact Olaf Veenstra or Charissa Caron - 050 3182227 / publicity@noorderlicht.com

Opening: July 15, 5pm

Noorderlicht Photogallery
Akerkhof 12 - Groningen
Wednesday – Sunday 12.00 – 6pm
Admission: free

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