Victoria & Albert Museum Guide (Italian Edition) by Julius Bryant

Publisher's Description

Published to coincide with an exhibition held between 1985 and 1986 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, this book is a compendium of the most arresting and enduring fashion photographs of our century. Selected by fashion photographer David Bailey, the images reproduced include some of the finest work by Horst, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Hoyningen-Huené, Deborah Turbeville, Martin Munkacsi, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Genevieve Naylor, Bruce Weber, Hiro, Richard Avedon, William Klein, Peter Lindbergh, and Barry Lategan, among many others. Shots of Style not only aptly explores the varied interpretations of photography's greatest artists on the art of fashion, but also provides a magnificent panorama of a century's changing ideals of feminine beauty.