When did the first fashion photographs appear in magazines? General Knowledge for Kids and Students of Class 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 Examinations

When did the first fashion photographs appear in magazines?

The first FASHION PHOTOGRAPHS appeared in the Parisian fashion journal La Mode Pratique in December 1891. The photographs were tinted by hand and reproduced by a crude twocolour process. The following year a London edition of the magazine, titled Fashions of Today, carried the first fashion photographs to be published in Britain. Neither journal can be considered a leader in its field and there was little further development until the founding of Les Modes in 1901. Not only did the photography in this magazine show a marked improvement over earlier efforts, but the attitudes of the models, according to Doris Langley Moore in her Fashions through Fashion Plates, ‘Show a high degree of professionalism’.

The first fashion photographs taken by a photographer of international renown were a series of 13 studies of Paul Poiret creations by the Luxemburgeois-American, Edward Steichen. These were reproduced in the Luxemburgeois-American, Edward Steichen. These were reproduced in the April 1911 issue of Art et Decoration. They mark the point at which fashion photography began to develop into an art in its own right and ceased to be a cheap substitute for drawings.

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