Vogue: The Editors Eye: A History of Fashion Photography

This extraordinary volume of photographs from the pages of Vogue celebrates the pivotal role the fashion editor has played in shaping Americas sense of style since the magazines launch more than a century ago.Drawing on Vogues exceptional archive, this book focuses on the work of eight of the magazines legendary fashion editors (including Polly Mellen, Babs Simpson, and Grace Coddington) who collaborated with photographers, stylists, and designers to create the images that have had an indelible impact on the fashion world and beyond.Featuring the work of worldrenowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Annie Leibovitz and model/muses including Marilyn Monroe, Verushka, and Linda Evangelista, The Editors Eye is a lavishly illustrated look at the visionary editors whose works continue to reverberate in the culture today.This coffee table book is perfect for sharing, gifting, and displaying. Featured in Guide to coffee table books as holiday gifts from the Associated Press Vogue: The Editors Eye tells how the vision, creativity (and lets not forget lavish budgets) possessed by eight fashion editors from 1947 to the present have produced the striking layouts that are the magazines signature. The Denver Post Vogue: The Editors Eye is the perfect gift book for anyone with an interest in fashion or photography or brilliant book design. No electronic tablet yet created can duplicate the sheer visual pleasure of paging through this gorgeous book. Connecticut Post Told via indepth interviews with each of these visionaries, Vogue: The Editors Eye gives a glimpse into the process, proving that the magazines cuttingedge fashion spreads are as much about editorial point of view as they are about modelphotographerdesigner collaboration. BookPage.com