Fashion Portraits: recent acquisitions
Bee Schaffer; Anna Wintour
by Anna Bauer
March 2008
NPG x131792
David Bowie
by Steven Klein
2003
NPG P1277
Past display archive
Until 21 September 2008
Room 41a
Free
Fashion portraits of John Galliano, Jude Law and Tilda Swinton by Paolo Roversi together with images of P J Harvey and Kate Moss by Mario Sorrenti, a major work by Steven Klein of David Bowie and a multiple portrait of Kate Moss by Corinne Day form the basis of this display of recently acquired works.
In addition in June 2008 the Gallery was grateful to receive a selection of fashion contacts taken by Anna Bauer of subjects ranging from fashion photographers Juergen Teller and David Sims, designers Luella Bartley and Matthew Williamson, models Agyness Deyn and Lily Cole as well as American Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. During London Fashion Week Bauer was commissioned to photograph behind the scenes for Jenny Dyson's Daily Rubbish newspaper. She continued the project in Paris. Working with a 4x5 camera, Bauer asked over 600 people to pose for one Polaroid print and one colour negative, from which these contact prints were made. A major portfolio of the Polaroids is featured in the September 2008 re-launch issue of Interview magazine.
The Gallery has previously held exhibitions devoted to photographers who have worked extensively in both fashion and portraiture including Cecil Beaton (1968), Helmut Newton (1988), Richard Avedon (1995) and Bruce Weber (1997). It was the groundbreaking exhibition Norman Parkinson: Fifty Years of Portraits and Fashion (1981), which first showed fashion photographs as 'model portraits' beginning a broader consideration of the potential of the fashion photograph as portrait.
Kate Moss
by Corinne Day
2006
NPG P1274
Jude Law
by Paolo Roversi
2006
NPG P1279
John Charles Galliano
by Paolo Roversi
2005
NPG P1278
Related portraits
- Kate Moss (NPG P1276)
- P.J. Harvey (NPG P1275)
- David Bowie (NPG P1277)
- John Charles Galliano (NPG P1278)
- Tilda Swinton (NPG P1280)
- Kate Moss (NPG P1274)
- Jude Law (NPG P1279)
- Lily Cole (NPG x131791)
- Stella McCartney (NPG x131793)
- Juergen Teller (NPG x131794)
- Lily Donaldson (NPG x131795)
- Paul Smith (NPG x131796)
- Agyness Deyn (Laura Hollins) (NPG x131797)
- David Sims (NPG x131798)
- Luella Bartley (NPG x131799)
- Matthew Williamson (NPG x131801)
- John Charles Galliano (NPG x131790)
- Bee Schaffer; Anna Wintour (NPG x131792)
- Colin McDowell (NPG x131800)
Related sitters
- Luella Bartley
- David Bowie
- Lily Cole
- Agyness Deyn (Laura Hollins)
- Lily Donaldson
- John Charles Galliano
- Polly Jean ('P.J.') Harvey
- Jude Law
- Stella McCartney
- Colin McDowell
- Kate Moss
- Bee Schaffer
- David Sims
- Sir Paul Brierley Smith
- Tilda Swinton (Katherine Matilda Swinton)
- Juergen Teller
- Natasha Vojnovic
- Matthew Williamson
- Anna Wintour