City Art Centre

Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast

15 June – 8 September 2013

Fashion photography – glamorous, provocative, beautiful, accomplished, magical – has been associated with some of the most famous names in the history of the medium since the early years of the 20th century.

The great American photographer Edward Steichen took what were probably the first fashion photographs in 1911. Since then it has become a unique platform for experimentation, balanced between commerce and creativity, recording the zeitgeist and visualising individual dreams and desires. The publisher Condé Nast recognised this very early on and created a distinctive style for his magazines, elevating haute couture and turning fashion photography into an art form, a tradition continued by subsequent editors and art directors at Condé Nast titles.

The exhibition shows early work by such luminaries as Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Corinne Day, Mario Testino and Sølve Sundsbø as it appeared in the pages of Vogue, Glamour and other Condé Nast publications.

With unprecedented access to the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris, London and Milan, the curator Nathalie Herschdorfer has gathered original prints, as well as pages from the actual magazines. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see the work of over eighty photographers right at the outset of their careers.

This exhibition has been organised by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/Paris/Lausanne, in collaboration with City Art Centre, Edinburgh.

Mon–Sat, 10am–7pm

Sun, 12–7pm

Adult £5, concessions £3.50

(Admission is free for school or college groups of ten or more)

City Art Centre

2 Market Street, EH1 1DE

0131 529 3993

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk

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12 August 2013
Festival Detours: Billy Letford at City Art Centre

6–6.40pm

£4. Book tickets.

City Art Centre

Dressed to Kill: Fashion, Costume and Dress in Scottish Art

15 June – 29 September 2013

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, The Black Hat, 1914, courtesy City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Dressed to Kill showcases how Scottish artists have captured fashion, costume and dress over the years, from the late 17th century to the present day. The exhibition includes portrayals of a whole range of different types of costume, from mundane everyday working clothes to the most elaborate fashionable dress. There is an inevitable focus on the depiction of women and women’s costume but other sections will look at men’s clothing, children’s costume, headgear, working clothes and uniforms.

Central to the exhibition are two iconic Colourist portraits, J.D. Fergusson’s The Blue Hat and F.C.B. Cadell’s The Black Hat, both showing young women dressed up to the nines in the height of Edwardian fashion. The exhibition will also include works by Allan Ramsay, Henry Raeburn, E.A. Hornel, John Lavery, J.H. Lorimer, John Duncan, Stanley Cursiter, John Bellany, Adrian Wiszniewski, David Williams and Moyna Flannigan.

Selected to complement Coming into Fashion, the exhibition is drawn from the City Art Centre’s collection of Scottish Art - a Recognised Collection of National Significance - and includes paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture.

Mon–Sat, 10am–7pm

Sun, 12–7pm

Free admission

City Art Centre

2 Market Street, EH1 1DE

0131 529 3993

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk

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