Week 25 Rankin and 7 Photographs

I watched an interesting program by Rankin on Seven Photographs that changed Fashion, Rankin in this program selected several photographs and reinacted them. The photographs included Cecil Beaton's Pill Box Hat, Richard Avedon's Dovima with Elephant, David Bailey's Jean Shrimpton and an untitled photograph by Guy Bourdin. This program was interesting as firstly Rankin explained why he had choosen each photographer and the impact that they had on the fashion world, but also because he reinacted the shoots the way the original was done, using 5x4 cameras and rolliflex and other techniches cameras from the time. 

The end was interesting to see where modern day fashion photographers get there influences from. I have been looking at a lot more fashion orientated images lately as I am doing an assignment for a 3rd year fashion student so have been doing research, I came away from he program learning a lot of the history but I was also closely looking at the dialogue with models and lighting set ups used.

Clip about Guy Bourdin from program