Imperfect Beauty

From September 28, 2000 to March 18, 2021, the Canon Photo Gallery, the photography department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, located in London, England. Photography Gallery) exhibition catalog produced for the exhibition "Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs".

This exhibition was curated by Charlotte Cotton, an independent British curator/writer who was working as a curator at the museum at the time. Focusing on the work of British photographers, art directors, and stylists who were at the center of the movement that changed the nature of fashion photography. Selected by the photographers themselves, these photographs show how conventional beauty and conventional beauty can be seen in the early 1990s, using ordinary home corners, vintage clothing, and models with unconventional looks that don't fit the stereotypes of beauty. It shows how the concept of fashion photography has been broken. These decadent images were named "Grunge Photography" after the music genre that became popular in the United States around 1989, and became an image that represented the new fashion of this era. These illustrations also show that while the number of magazines published and the rise of the Internet have expanded the scope and distribution of their influence, the distinction between editing and advertising, photography and art, and commercial style has become ambiguous. ing.

Past Exhibitions and Displays 2000
www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/past-exhibitions-and-displays-2000

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Title: Imperfect Beauty
Artist: Various
Editor: Charlotte Cotton
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2000
Hardcover with plastic dust jacket,
160 pages
First edition
Text in English
ISBN: 978-1851773206