I'm starting a photography class at school because I figure I stare at fashion photography all day so I should know a bit about how photography actually works. Thinking about it I've become really fascinated with the contrast between skin/humans and fabric/clothing in photography.
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| The dirt on the shoes. Uggh. I'm verklempt from the beauty. |
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| I see clothing, material, and fabric, as much as I see humans. It's just... I don't know...balanced. Like a Rubik's cube. |
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| The textures of the sweater, smoke, hair, and eyeliner. |
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| She is wearing a huge legit gown and yet looks like she's wearing pajamas. Can someone please make my dream of this being my pajamas a reality? I will buy you ice cream. |
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| Again I focus on the clothes as much as the person. All the textures make the skin stand out so beautifully. |
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| SKIN AND LEATHA |
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| The light on that dress. Somehow I don't even see it as a dress, I actually imagine the fabric being draped and sewn when I see this picture. |
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| I see a garment, not fashion. I love it. |
I don't know if any of that made sense. I basically mean that I am really fascinated by:
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The contrast of cloth and skin
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Fashion photography that shows off a garment and person equally, therefore a relationship between skin and cloth.
At the Contemporary Art Museum of Chicago the other day, my friends and I saw an exhibit about H&M's Cambodian denim factory. In the middle you were invited to sit down and rip apart denim. I was struck by how easy fabric is to pull apart. If you simplify it, clothes are threads laying on and in each other. It seems so obvious, but when you really think about it, you are walking around with string hanging on your body, that's really all it technically is.
From top: Emma Summerton, Solve Sundsbo, Solve Sundsbo, Avedon, Emma Summerton, Craig McDean, Irving Penn, Irving Penn, Nick Knight, Steven Meisel
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