What would we do without photographers?

Could you just imagine fashion shows, campaigns and just the beautiful images that we get from magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair or Elle without photographers? No, me neither, the fashion industry as we know it would be very different if we didn't have artists of the light drawing.
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The work of fashion photographers reads back to 1856 with Adolphe Braun who published a book with 288 photos of Virginia Oldoini a noble woman of court of Napoleon III.

To some, photography might sound like a very easy job, just taking pictures of gowns, if that was the case we would all be photographers, but that's not all, when we buy a fashion magazine and look at the runways it actually makes us feel like we are in the first row of NYFW or the super creative illustrations combined with other elements of art, changing completely the concept of plane photography, transforming the genre into an outstanding form of art. Here we find some of the outstanding photographers.

Horst P. Horst: who began his career in  the London edition of Vogue, Harper´s Bazaar and continued he´s with Chanel for three  decades.

Helen Bennett taken by Horst 

Edward Steichen:  who was awarded with  modern fashion photography and worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Work of  E. Steichen      

            

Cecil Beaton: photographer for the British edition of Vogue in the 1930´s

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Celil Beaton

       

Taken by C. Beaton

George Hoyningen-Huene: chief of photography of French Vogue in 1925