Fashion as Art, yesterday’s fashion photo shoot

If anyone really knows me, they would know,  fashion photography was my first love.  I spent numerous critiques in college taking hit after hit  for my “shallow” fashion photography.  I always defended myself by saying, “fashion IS art”.  Open any magazine and 3/4 of the pages are filled with advertisements for clothes, shoes, make-up, perfume, etc.  You never see a standard picture of a pair of shoes, you see a highly stylized model with exotic hair and make-up, crazy lighting schemes, wearing the pair of shoes being advertised.

Yesterday was the first of  many “shoot-outs” hosted by Jacksonville based make-up artist Faythe Mesic Hall.  She orchestrated 20 models, half male and half female, had a team of stylist and couture clothes donated and placed the models in various sections of the Riverside Garden Club.  She invited area photographers, and for a small fee, you moved from station to station photographing experienced models.

Here are a few of my favorite shots!

And 10 years later, I still defend myself…..”Fashion IS Art!”

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