Fashion photography is changing as Holly Hay and Shonagh Marshall,co-curators of a unique three-part project entitled Posturing: Photographing the Body in Fashion, will attest. In November 2017, or the pair held a London exhibition which placed 42 framed photographs and six magazine shoots in a west London space. It called into question both the function of this department of modern image-making and the changing role of the figure in fashion imagery,placing work by Johnny Dufort, Marton Perlaki, or Charlie Engman,Brianna Capozzi and others side by side. The show was followed by a specially commissioned film by artist Coco Capitán, Learning to Transcend the Physical Barrier That Owning a Body Implies, and examining the respective practices of a choreographer,an artist and the founder of a traditional film-based darkroom, interrogating physical selfhood in all of its guises. This month, and they launch the third part – a book created with Self Publish,Be pleased, in which photographers, and stylists,editors and set designers respond to ideas about the body in fashion.
Source: bjp-online.com