Fashion photographer Rankin recreates seven of his favourite
images as he takes a journey through the history of the fashion photograph. In
recreating iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon,
Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin, Rankin exposes the
ways in which fashion photography uses fantasy and beauty to communicate
something about reality.
My favourite of all Rankin recreations is the Rua Abriot
VOGUE 1975 by Helmut Newton. This image is very strong. I love the fact that Newton
had the model dressed in a suit, which is more of a masculine look and he allows
the model to make it sexy and still pose like a guy. This photo has a very
sexual ambiguity to it; which is not surprising because newton was well known
for his photo being empowering to women.
Out of all the pictures Rankine recreated I fill that this one
come very close to mimicking the original photo. The fact that he did it at the
same street as Newton took the original photo its ‘wow’. However Rankine
recreated image fills more posed than natural compared to the original which is
more natural. Other than that the resemblance of the recreated photo is very
clear
Heidi Klum, Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt, Sophie
Ellis-Bextor, Tuuli Shipster, Mollie Gondhi, Daphne Guinness and David Gandy
are the models for Rankin's shoots, while other contributors include David
Bailey and Lillian Bassman.
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