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Following Man Ray’s lead, Philippe Halsman was a proponent of surreal photography with his elaborately orchestrated surreal scenes including his 1949 work Popcorn Nude recreated by
Belgian artist René Magritte toyed with perspective and reality, creating surreal works through real, ordinary settings and mundane objects. The apple had a lingering presence
In 1955, English photographer Norman Parkinson, who documented the glamorous Golden Age of Couture in his postwar images, photographed Audrey Hepburn in a light pink day dress, positioned
The House of Worth is considered the most influential and widely-recognized house of the nineteenth century. Founded in 1858 by English designer Charles Frederic Worth, it is
For the November 1, 1949 issue of Vogue, Irving Penn photographed wife and model Lisa Fonssagrives, who represented the graceful, mature female fashionable archetype of the period. The close of
Directed by Albert Lamorisse, the 1956 short film Le Ballon rouge tells the tale of a boy, played by Lamorisse’s son, and his animate red
Famed window dresser for Bonwit Teller and Tiffany & Co, Gene Moore would also photograph fashions for Vogue in 1953. Moore’s 1953 photograph of a woman literally
At a time when photography was considered more mechanical than artistic, photographer and artist Edward Steichen strove to elevate fashion photography to the level of