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Arthur Elgort
Arthur Elgort
This is Arthur Elgort’s first comprehensive book, showing his world-renowned fashion imagery alongside his personal
work. The book spans Elgort’s five-decade career and illustrates his longevity as an emulated fashion photographer. His
lively and casual shooting style is significantly influenced by a lifelong love of music and dance, particularly jazz and ballet.
Elgort’s 1971 debut in British Vogue created a sensation in the fashion world where his soon-to-be iconic “snapshot”
style and emphasis on movement and natural light transcended norms of fashion photography. Elgort subsequently
rose to fame working for such distinguished magazines as American, French and Italian Vogue, Interview, GQ, Life and
Rolling Stone; and shooting advertising campaigns for fashion labels including Chanel, Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent.
Arthur Elgort was born in 1940 and raised in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School, and Hunter College
where he initially studied painting before switching to photography, which he took to naturally. Elgort’s numerous books
include Personal Fashion Photographs (1983) and the bestseller Models Manual released during the supermodel boom
in 1994. Elgort has also directed two films, Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story (1992), and the documentary Colorado
Cowboy (1993) which portrays legendary cowboy Bruce Ford and won the award for Best Cinematography at
the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. In 2011 Elgort received the Board of Directors’ Special Tribute Award from the
Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Arthur Elgort
Arthur Elgort
Foreword by Grace Coddington
Essay by Martin Harrison
Book design by Marianne Houtenbos and Aoife Wasser
420 pages
10 x 12.7 in. / 24.5 x 32 cm
280 photographs
Four colour process with a fifth fluorescent colour
Hardcover with acetate jacket
€ 68.00 / £ 54.00 / US$ 98.00
ISBN 978-3-86930-543-1
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