Erwin Blumenfeld "Vintage Fashion"
Edwynn Houk Gallery
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The gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of works by the renowned fashion photographer, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969). This important exhibition will feature a rare group of 30 vintage prints from one personal collection that has been in tact since the artist’s death in 1969 and will provide an opportunity to view the original, groundbreaking works by Blumenfeld that have proven to influence the course of fashion photography.
Erwin Blumenfeld is considered to be one of the early pioneers of fashion photography alongside George Hoyningen-Heune, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst. It was not only his employment of experimental techniques in the darkroom, Dada and Surrealist influences, and groundbreaking street work, but Blumenfeld’s unique and masterful combination of elegance and eroticism that transformed fashion into high art and paved the way for Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, and other photographers who enjoyed such prominence and recognition in the history of art.
[Image: Erwin Blumenfeld "Paris Vogue, Eiffel Tower" (May 1939)]
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from November 03, 2011 to January 07, 2012