TOURThe Model as Muse
Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
The book explores the relationship between the representation and evolution of female beauty from the 1920s to today, through a photographic history of iconic fashion models from Dorian Leigh to Twiggy, to the Supermodels of the '80s and the ascent of Kate Moss. Over the last few decades, the celebration of models has gone beyond the catwalk and permeated into other creative mediums, inspiring not only fashion editors, photographers and designers but artists like Chuck Close and Lucien Freud, as featured at the New York MoMA exhibit of the same name. An intriguing overview into the modern concept of feminine beauty.
200 pages
May 2009
English
Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
The book explores the relationship between the representation and evolution of female beauty from the 1920s to today, through a photographic history of iconic fashion models from Dorian Leigh to Twiggy, to the Supermodels of the '80s and the ascent of Kate Moss. Over the last few decades, the celebration of models has gone beyond the catwalk and permeated into other creative mediums, inspiring not only fashion editors, photographers and designers but artists like Chuck Close and Lucien Freud, as featured at the New York MoMA exhibit of the same name. An intriguing overview into the modern concept of feminine beauty.
200 pages
May 2009
English
