NORMAN PARKINSON – ELEGANCE IN VOGUE
2016-02-15In a career that spanned over five decades, Norman Parkinson photographed for Vogue for most of this time. He worked consistently for ‘British Vogue’ from 1941 to 1960, and after a stint at Queen, returned again in 1965 working with ‘British Vogue’ through 1975. His long association with ‘Vogue’ brought him worldwide recognition and he is now considered one of the twentieth century’s foremost fashion photographers.
Parkinson was instrumental in taking fashion photography beyond the stiff formality of his predecessors and injecting an easy and casual elegance into his images. His impulsive and unstructured style changed forever the static, posed approach to fashion photography.
Norman Parkinson dazzled the world with his sparkling inventiveness as a fashion photographer and his work provides a comprehensive and unique record of the development of fashion design, photography and modelling from the 1940’s to 1990.
Opposite – White Weddings (Twiggy), British Vogue, February 1967
Exhibition runs through till March 24th, 2016
Eleven
11 Eccleston Street
London
SW1W 9LX
