‘Edward Steichen and Art Deco Fashion’ will present Steichen’s pioneering modernist fashion photography and celebrity portraiture, produced during his fifteen year career as chief photographer for Condé Nast’s most prestigious magazines Vanity Fair and Vogue. During this period he put his exceptional talents and prodigious energy to work, creating a legacy of unequalled brilliance as he photographed the world of high fashion and stars of contemporary popular culture including Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Winston Churchill and George Gershwin. The exhibition showcases the glamour and modernity of the Art Deco period through the work of fashion’s most influential photographer, alongside more than forty exquisite Art Deco fashion items from the NGV Collection and select private collections.
NGV International
18 October, 2013 to 2 March, 2014
Melbourne
Olympic diver Katherine Rawls, 1931, gelatin silver photograph
Courtesy the Condé Nast Archive and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
