Henry clarke fashion photographer biography videos
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Henry Clarke, the Photographer who Brought American Style to Paris
Henry Clarke is not such a famous name any more and yet his incredibly dynamic and colourful fashion photographs enlivened hundreds of pages of mode magazines. He worked for Fémina, L’Album de Figaro and Harper’s Bazaar and the French, English and American editions of Vogue in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The photographs feature models like Suzy Parker, Ann Sainte Marie and Bettina and he captures them looking full of life. Anna Magnani, Coco Chanel, Sophia Loren and Maria Callas were featured in portraits bygd the American photographer in Paris.
1950s cotton print dresses with bred circle skirts on display in Storefront at Norrmalmstorg in huvudstaden, 1957
Henry Clarke – The Spirit of the 60s
Verushka by Henry Clarke. Here she is seen struggling with two large Louis Vuitton bags, designed to emphasise her small frame, whilst walking in a Paris park. The
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With so many exhibits and monographs devoted to fashion photography and its leading practitioners, it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t that long ago that the genre was seldom the focus of highbrow studies. Yet, that’s what Eugénie Shinkle discovered when she began researching it almost a decade ago.
“My fascination for fashion photography emerged because of my complete disbelief at how widely ignored the genre was in academia,” said Ms. Shinkle, a reader in photography at the University of Westminster, London. “Apart from a handful of exceptions, there was a real reluctance amongst scholars to engage with it in a serious way,” she said. “Unapologetically commercial, it had been reduced to ‘only advertising.’ And, until recently — that is until it started appearing in galleries — it was considered to be ephemeral. Because it wasn’t meant to last and because it wasn’t created with
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