Look: Portraits from Backstage at Olympus Fashion Week

by Heatherette, Simon Dumenco, Katie Couric

Book Overview

Beginning in February 2005, famed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began photographing the personalities of New York's Olympus Fashion Week in a specially-designed photo studio... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576873528
• ISBN13: 9781576873526
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A departure

Full disclosure: I know Timothy. That said, though, I was honestly astonished at the difference between this series and the photographer's previous essays -- especially in the color. There's a blushy or even feverish tone running through every picture, and it's definitely not just the printing. People here really look the way they do at the shows -- flushed, pumped-up, and raring to rock, or shop, or put clothes on or off, or whatever. Form aside, the content should make this book essential for anyone in or interested in the high-end garment trade. There are a few especially fashion-literate actors and other ante-camera celebrities here, but the emphasis is on people like, say, Kim Hastreiter or Stan Herman, who are immensely powerful in the industry but not often photographed, and then not usually very well. With all of these people together you get a vivid cross-section of what's really going on under the tents. Five stars.

Pure brilliance...

Mr. Greenfield-Sanders has done it again. After such an insightful 'look' into the world of adult film with XXX, I was so pleased to see he was able to do the same with the fashion industry. The portraits are beautiful and the essays certainly add to the experience.