It is everywhere, on bus shelters, in magazines and even on Instagram.
And yet, fashion photography rarely takes center stage in major museums.
Straddling two worlds, art and fashion, this hybrid navigates between
high culture
and
low culture
(in the spirit of institutions), rarely gaining the position of prestige that the masters of photography by nature occupy.
"There is no space in Paris specializing in fashion photography"
, notes Olivier Saillard, director of the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation, where an exhibition dedicated to the American Arthur Elgort is held until August 20. behind the scenes at Alaïa.
“If we can occupy this ground, it is quite natural,
he continues.
Azzedine loved and collected photography.
Artistic encounters with great photographers run through his work.
We have already presented his collaboration with Peter Lindbergh in 2021, we would also like, one day, to do Jean-Paul Goude.
Curiously
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