A great conversation between Holly Brubach, Rosalind Krauss and Ginia Bellafante in today's New York Times Arts section about fashion photography. A short, sweet dissection of a show opening at NY's Museum of Modern Art - 'Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990'.
The analysis here speaks not just to fashion photos but gives some thought to the art of photography circa late 20th century. Here's a sample -
"The pictures, I think, ultimately serve as a social critique. As mainstream culture has embraced glitz and celebrity so feverishly, fashion, with all its perversity, has run in the other direction. These pictures subvert our glitzy reveling in stardom and the idea of woman being the center of attention, a meticulously assembled beauty. Fashion, or some factor of it, has offered an antidote. Which is kind of amazing."-Holly Brubach