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FashionITALIAN EYES.Italian Fashion Photography from 1951 to TodayChartaCurated by Maria Luisa Frisa with Francesco Bonami & AnnaMattirolo400pp. 217 colour & 192 b/ w illustrationsPaperback w/ flaps - 21 x 26 cmIn recent years, fashion photography has become the guidingmedium of contemporary visual culture: it has evolved from atransformative means of reproduction and a support for fashion, intoa producer of icons and ideas. In fact, it has had a determinantinfluence in all fields of communication and is considered a fullfledgedart form. Its strength, as a defining image and form ofcommunication, in which it is capable of determining - the here andnow of our time. The Italian Eyes project aims to reconstruct, withphotographs, the fashion reportages that appeared in Italian andforeign magazines, and the stylists’ advertising campaigns, offeringus a sort of repertory of images that reconstruct the changes incustoms and the evolution of society from the post-war periodthrough our times. The project, which spans an arc of time from theofficial birth date of Italian fashion (1951) to today, does not play out ina catalogic manner but rather divides the images by themes so as tocreate a photographic repertory that speaks not only to fashion butalso to the history of photography.English textISBN 8881585103£ 30.00REGINA RELANGFashion Photography and Photojournalism 1933-1976Hatje CantzEdited by Ulrich Pohlmann, Esther Ruelfs,Texts by Andreas Ley, Ulrich Pohlmann, Esther Ruelfs, KatharinaSykora, Brigitte Werneburgc. 228 pp., ca. 16 colour, 160 duotones & 30 b/w 206 illustrationsHardback – 24 x 30 cmThis enchanting volume of photographs presents 160 of the bestoriginal photographs from the estate of Regina Relang (1906-1989).She began working for Vogue in 1938 and became one of theleading German fashion photographers in the fifties and sixties.Relang’s spectacular photographs from fashion shoots at the hautecouture presentations in Paris were featured twice a year in all ofthe major fashion journals in Germany. This book focuses on thefine vintage prints of her early reportages and her fashionphotography of the fifties and sixties, while also providing insightinto the historical background of her work. Not only do herphotographs document the changing fashions of Christian Dior,Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint-Laurent, they also trace thetransformation of the image of woman in the mid-twentiethcentury.Exhibition ScheduleFotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, 10 th May – 7 th July 2005English & German textISBN 3775715886£ 25.0032