The Paris End: Photography, Fashion & Glamour

by Van Wyk, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780724102730
• ISBN10: 0724102736
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Natl Gallery of Victoria

Summary

As the 20th century progressed photography emerged as a creative art form coincident with the appetite for colorful and well designed women's fashions and for beautiful women to show them off. Melbourne had its share of both high couturiers and remarkable photographers. The (top end) of Collins Street, the central vein running through Melbourne, became known of the Paris End. To visitors - especially the French - Collins Street was Melbourne's Champs Elysees. But to Australians, the Champs Elysees was the Collins Street of Paris. It was home to painters, musicians, writers, theatre people and photographers whose reputations extended much beyond the borders of Australia. The Paris End focuses on the role of the trend-setting studio photographers and their relationship with couture, culture and the celebrated. These were the exponents of studio portraiture, masters of theatrical photography and innovators in the blossoming fields of fashion illustration and advertising. Among the photographers who worked in and around the famous street were German-born Helmut Newton (who later went to America), Ahtol Shmith, E.G. Adamson, Bruno Benini, Alice Mills, Jack Cato, May and Mina Moore, Ruth Holick, Wolfgang Sievers and Henry Talbot. The book covers the period from early part of the century up to the early 1960s with vignettes on the lives of the photographers and on the makers of fashion and models.

Author Biography

Danielle Whitfield is Assistant Curator of Australian Fashion and Textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Table of Contents

The Paris end : photography, fashion and glamour	p. 11
Paris, Melbourne	p. 15
Plates : portraits	p. 24
Melbourne style : photographers of Collins Street	p. 45
Plates : theatre and character studies	p. 66
Maggie Tabberer talks to Susan van Wyk	p. 85
Plates : fashion	p. 90
La Mode Francaise Australian style	p. 105
Le Louvre's Georgina Weir talks to Danielle Whitfield	p. 115
Plates : advertising	p. 118
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