Fashion Photography Archive

Understanding fashion photography

Fashion photography is best displayed in fashion magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue and Allure. It is dedicated to displaying fashion trends in fabric and otherwise, on the beautiful fashion models. Fashion photography has its own aesthetic, celebrating fashion enhanced by exotic locations and themes. The earliest show of fashion photography on record is the portfolio of a noble woman, Virginia Oldoini, the Countess de Castiglione in 1856. The first fashion model was photographed by Adolphe Braun, making him the first fashion photographer! The development of halftone printing enabled fashion photography to add color and spark to magazines. The French magazines Les mode and La mode practique were the first to capitalize on fashion photography.