Beyond Fashion
Project
About
Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The works demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity.
Including works by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, Miles Aldridge, and Ellen von Unwerth – as well as an exciting new generation of fashion photographers – Beyond Fashion celebrates the vision and creativity of these artists and image-makers, and documents how fashion photography has become a new and exciting visual language.
Divided into four sections: Allure, Fantasy, Realism, and Surrealism, the exhibition tells the story of how fashion photography has become more than a commercial device, and has evolved into an art form in its own right. Viewers will travel from the glossy setting of the photography studio to the grassroots of street photography, and discover the vast and diverse forms which fashion photography can take.
They will also see some of the most iconic images, famous faces and dynamic brands in contemporary culture. From classic VOGUE covers to Victoria Beckham’s legs in Marc Jacobs’ shopping bag – this collection of works features supermodels and stars like Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington; designers such as Christian Dior, Commes des Garcons, Alexander McQueen and Valentino, and street style legend The Sartorialist.
In addition to over 100 photographs, a section of the exhibition is dedicated to moving images – highlighting the importance of film in today’s fashion imagery. This will feature the works of SHOWstudio, the website founded and directed by Nick Knight, one of the first and most high-profile image-makers to adopt digital film as a medium for showcasing fashion.
The exhibition concludes with an installation entitled Under Your Smell; a project that invites visitors to experience an alternative and dynamic way to engage with fashion imagery. The students of the Bachelor Photography of the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne offer a visual interpretation of Jean Paul Gaultier’s perfumes. In a series of staged images, perfumes become the backdrop for stories of transgression and fantastical projections.
This exhibition is curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.
Featured Photographers:
Miles Aldridge, Ayoto Ataraxia, Kent Baker, Michael Baumgarten, Olivia Bee, Blommers & Schumm, Koto Bolofo, Coco Capitán, Elinor Carucci, Elaine Constantine, Maisie Cousins, Jack Davison, Jonathan de Villiers, Horst Diekgerdes, Zoë Ghertner, René Habermacher, Ben Hassett, Aimée Hoving, Ina Jang, Sebastian Kim, Nick Knight, Heji Shin & Kristina Nagel, Anaïs Leu, Feng Li, Peter Lindbergh, Glen Luchford, Erik Madigan Heck, Raymond Meier, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Hanna Moon, Marton Perlaki, Paolo Roversi, Daniel Sannwald, Viviane Sassen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Scott Schuman, Emma Summerton, Sølve Sundsbø, Juergen Teller, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Mario Testino, Willy Vanderperre, Ellen Von Unwerth, Ben Watts, Bruce Weber, Kiki Xue, Yelena Yemchuk, Txema Yeste.
- Man on Ship 08.2024
- Boys Told Not To Swim 07.2024
- Phoini cuts onions in kitchen with sunglasses 07.2024
- Self-portrait 07.2024
- The Day After the Sexual Revolution 07.2024
- Mapping the four discourses and the Olausson’s Family 07.2024
- Grandma holding my terror 07.2024
- A Spring of Bittersweet Melodies
- Beyond Fashion 2019-2023
- Sadness of Pleasure: Zen and the Art of Squirt Feb 14, 2023
- My Film with Andrei Dialectic 12.02.2022
- My Film with Andrei Review by Felix Ruckert 22.01.2022
- Collected writing
- Neoliberal Imagery, Colonialism and Identity
- My Film with Andrei Poster Experiments
- My Film with Andrei, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party PRESS PREVIEW (2021) 2021.11.14
- My Film with Andrei | Official Teaser HD (2021) 2021.11.28
- My Film With Andrei Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party 2021.11.28
- Tokyo Recordings 03.09.2021
- No Country for Diasporic Men album 22.07.2022
- Thomas Azier 2020.10.29
- River Crossing 2020.10.23
- Nowness Asia Interview 2020.07.24
- In Conversation: Thomas Azier and Ayoto Ataraxia 2020.05.19
- Hold On Tight 2020.05.01
- Breathless
- A moment in Paris
- Eclipse of my heart
- P.K. 14 Portraits
- The Moon
- The Room
- PJW577 Bodies
- Future Spaces
- Beyond Fashion Exhibition 2019.01.01
- A$AP Rocky
- Pure Barre
- A new face
- PJW576 Intimacy
- Sunrise
- On the roof with Colleen
- Ana-Leigh
- Feeld — Intimacy Research
- Feeld in London
- PJW572 Vogue Italia 2017.04.17
- The Kinfolk Entrepreneur
- PJW555
- PJW554
- Hermès
- PJW551
- PJW543
- PJW542 Interzone
- PJW541
- PJW535
- Face
- PJW527
- PJW520
- PJW515 2015.10.15
- PJW512
- PJW508
- PJW505 Material Turn
- The Immaterial Turns of Baumeister Jung 2017.10.21
- Violet Hands 2017.12.09
- PJW506 LAB
- Visionaire: Brooklyn Dreamspace 2016.12.01
- PJW504
- PJW406
- PJW391
- PJW388 South Sudan
- PJW381
- PJW373
- PJW370
- PJW369
- PJW323
- PJW320
- Material Turn
- PJW315
- PJW292 2016.05.02
- PJW287 2016.04.29
- PJW283 2016.04.29
- PJW276 2016.04.29
- Metal Magazine Interview 2014.05.08
- Estelle — Conqueror 2014.07.22
- Silicone 2013.12.01
- PJW260 Grovelling
- PJW246 2012.12.01
- Bibliography
- Bio
- CV
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