Art Talk
Head Over Heels With Photography And Fashion
Edward Goldman falls head over heels with the Getty’s photography exhibition“Icons Of Style."
By Edward Goldman • • 3m ListenFor any museum exhibition to be reviewed on the front page of the New York Times, it would be an honor, but to have a glowing review extended to three pages, plus a dozen images accompanying it, is almost unheard of. Until last Sunday.
Christina Dior, Woman's Two-Piece Dress, Fall/Winter 1948. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Photo by Edward Goldman.
Richard Avedon, Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Photo by Edward Goldman.
Left: Horst P. Horst, The Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939. Courtesy: Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Right: Lillian Bassman, Charles James Dress, Carmen, New York, 1960. Courtesy: Richard and Allison Roeder. Photo by Edward Goldman.
Left: Norman Parkinson, The New Mayfair Edwardians (Peter Coats, William Ackroyd, Mark Gilbey), 1950. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Right: Irving Penn, Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives Penn), 1950. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Photos by Edward Goldman.
Left: Sarah Moon, Sveta for Hussein Chalayan, 2000. © Sarah Moon. Right: David Sims, Yohji Yamamoto, 1995. © David Sims. Photos courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Left: William Claxton, Peggy Moffitt in Rudi Gernreich Topless Swimsuit, 1964. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Right: Bruce Weber, Tom Hintnaus for Clavin Kelin, Santorini, Greece, 1982. Courtesy: Bruce Weber and Nan Bush. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Photos by Edward Goldman.
Glen Luchford, Kate Moss, 1994. © Glen Luchford. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
