Product Description

UNSEEN VOGUE goes beyond the cliches and often repeated 'greatest hits' of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, an immense resource of over 1,000,000 images, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before - the killed pictures, rejects and out-takes - to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography. Featuring the first attempts of many now internationally famous photographers, great pictures by forgotten masters, out-takes from famous shoots and many other extraordinary and sometimes controversial pictures. By showing contact sheets and unedited film UNSEEN VOGUE opens up the process of making fashion images, previously the reserve of fashion's inner circle. From Irving Penn to David Bailey, from Cecil Beaton to Mario Testino - the new book will be an authoritative addition to the documented history of fashion photography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4758 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'A lavish & beautiful celebration...testimony to the truth that unofficial history is often more intriguing' OBSERVER 'A fascinating visual record' i-D 'The greatest fashion photography you've never seen...an insight into the passions, personalities & prima donnas of fashion' GQ 'What makes this book so compelling isn't just the list of stellar photographers but the insider caption-style commentaries that accompany each shot' Glamour

OBSERVER
A lavish and beautiful celebration...testimony to the truth that unofficial history is often more intriguing.

i-D Magazine
A fascinating visual record.

Customer Reviews

For photographers and fashion lovers everywhere
The images of this book are a collaboration of rejected pictures from the magazine 'Vogue'. However, it is much more than just photographs, each one is accompanied by a brief background of the photographer and the shoot, these untold stories are most intriguing.

If you have a love for photography, fashion ... or just pretty pictures! Then this book is for you, it covers the unofficial history of over 80 years, portraying with each page a photographic advance too experimental to publish at the time, or a model's pose too controversial to be the face of Vogue.

The book also takes the reader through the endless loop of fashion: the high glamour of the 40's and 50's which rears its elegant head again in the 90's; the cropped trousers of the 60's who plague our high-streets today; the nude lips and dramatic eyeliner of the 70's is a look that reappears 30 years later.

These are not just photographs, the book proves it, each has a story, often accompanied by letters between editor and photographer. It covers the greats - Cecil Beaton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey, Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Testino and hundreds more.

This is a truly wonderful book to own, the images alone are breathtaking considering their context and the fact that many were the first of their kind. These photographic artists weren't commissioned for new ideas by a fashion magazine who wasn't ready for such experimental images - a magazine reflective of society over the years.

Great for photography students.
I actually bought this as a gift for my sister who is a photography student. She really really liked it as it reveals a bunch of photos classed as rejects from the pages of Vogue. Not only that, but information on the photographers, what they were thinking etc. Good buy if you are into fashion and photography.

Really interesting book :)
This is a great book, i really recommend it. If you are into the history of Vogue and alo fashion/photography its perfect. Great inspiration if you are into the creative side of fashion like myself.

Perfect book to just flick through every now and then- it just shows that the standards for Vogue magazine are extremely high as these were rejects! Its well worth the money so give it a read as you wont think its a disappointment or waste of money.