Vanity, Kunsthalle Wien, through February 12, 2012
As part of a special program addressing the art of photography, Vienna's Kunsthalle Wien exhibition hall is currently hosting two exhibitions dedicated to fashion photography. Vanity features 200 works that give us a look into the unique fashion photography collection belonging to F.C. Gundlach - the German photographer, gallery owner and curator. Spanning the period of the late 1920's to the modern day, the exhibition contains works from all of the big names in fashion photography - Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, to name just a few. If this first exhibition could be considered a hymn to fashion photography - the gem of a myth about which Cecil Beaton once said: "Beauty is the most important word in the dictionary," then the parallel exhibition, No fashion, please!, is quite the opposite. This, at times unnerving, exhibition focuses on the radical branch of fashion photography that has consciously cut itself off from traditional and functional fashion photography, in which the central element has always been the clothing. For the last two decades, this relatively new offshoot has examined the relationships between the body and clothing, and between gender and life-style, in an un-enhanced, realistic and, at times, even revoltingly harsh manner. It reflects the influence of various subcultures both on fashion and the ideal body image, the patterns of which are currently duplicated and copied as obsessively as the dresses that we see walked down the runway.
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
www.kunsthallewien.at
Photo: F.C. Gundlach, Brigitte Bauer, Op Art-Badeanzug von Sinz, Vouliagmeni/Griechenland 1966, © F.C. Gundlach
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