40s fashion photography

[Girl Friday]

Looks a lot like Irving Penn Photos

I was thinking this the other day but didn't have time to post.

http://masters-of-photography.com/P/penn/penn.html

and another thread reminded me!

 

[katiemakeup]

Thank you for posting those pictures! If you have anymore, I'd like to see them.

 

[herringbonekid]

more additions to my own thread of fashion imagery, these by Cecil Beaton:

incidentally the woman in the red dress is my ideal. if you look like her please drop me a PM and we'll get married.

 

[scotrace]

Bump (found it looking for something else)

 

[Rockapin-up]

oh hey thanks

 

[MikeBravo]

It's everywhere today. I guess that advertisers think people in general will relate to the, "I'm petulant, and ill humored, and totally dramatic, so don't you dare mess with me,... and you best take me seriously" look.--->
lol I don't get it myself,...[huh] seeing someone that looks petulant while trying to entice me into buying a product just doesn't work on me. Has the opposite effect on me, I don't want to buy or use any product that would put me in such a bad frame of mind.

I prefer something along these lines, especially since Barbara Stanwyk is in it. :whistling

I love the cross promotion, "starring in Paramount's "Double Indemnity"


It ain't nothin' new. Maybe just more subtle now (or is it?)

 

[fashion frank]

It is refreshing indeed to see women who look polished, feminine and bearing pleasant facial expressions.

That's one thing you rarely see now a days !
This post is close to 9 years old and yet it speaks volumes .

All the Best,Fashion Frank

 

[MikeKardec]

Two things occur to me. The first is the nice tension that comes from the obscured features in many of the photos, also the dramatic diagonals ... the strongest "line" you can present.

The second has to do with the petulance issue which does seem to have gotten worse in more recent decades ... after lightening up a bit in the 1960s. I suspect that the angry, scowling, look has been analyzed to death by the fashion industry. It may appeal to women as a symbol of empowerment and it has the effect on men of getting them to scramble around to try and make the sexy woman happy ... or to make them feel that if they are a "real man" they could potentially tame this savage beast. I caught my niece trying this out on me when she was about five. Somewhere she had picked it up and she was DAMNED good at it. Interesting because she grew up in a household with no TV. I told her to knock it off, that it didn't work on relatives and it probably wouldn't work until she was older!