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A study of fashion photography since 1945. It places fashion photography in the main stream of popular culture and it links the imagery to the art of photography itself by drawing on such influential figures as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. It also charts the rise of the magazines and the influence of the great art directors and editors of the time. The book and accompanying exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum have been prepared with the full participation of the leading figures in the field, from Richard Avedon and Irving Penn to Bruce Weber. Its conclusion at the start of the Nineties is that there is no longer a distinctive form of fashion photography; there is simply photography.