Lisa Fonssagrives. Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography

[Lisa Fonssagrives]. Edited by David Seidner. With a text by Martin Harrison.

Thames & Hudson. London. 1996. First edition. Hardback, quarto; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 151 pages. 118 photographs in colour and duotone. English. 325 x 250mm. 1.45kg. 9780500017500. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket.

Lisa Fonssagrives was one of the greatest models of the twentieth century and a muse of the greatest fashion photographers. In 1936 Horst was the first Vogue photographer to take images of Fonssagrives and his early shots of her established her place as a professional model. Fonssagrives was a trained ballet dancer and spent many hours studying and learning from the paintings in the Louvre to reveal how the figures were posed. The book features a biographical essay and over 100 photographs taken by the finest fashion photographers over more than three decades - Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Horst, Blumenfeld, Platt Lynes, Richard Avedon and her husband, Irving Penn.