Photographs

Fashion photography has an illustrative function, evident in photographs that reproduce fashion show setups and provide static images of the models parading on the catwalk, an interpretive function that makes photography a key tool for visualizing and communicating the aesthetic canons of fashion. This latter function was at the center of the change that took place between the end of the 1960s, when fashion was still being photographed in large open spaces, and the beginning of the 1970 when, as archival sources attest, fashion photography taken inside photo studios started to prevail.