A Martin Munkácsi picture from the 1930's
Remember that PRADA S/S 2010 campaign? It's one of my favorites. Especially because it's clear where the inspiration came from: Martin Munkácsi (1896 - 1963), one of my all time favorite photographers. Munkácsi, born in Hungary, started his career as a sports photographer. In 1928 he signed up with Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. After the nazi's nationalized the magazine in 1934, Munkacsi left for New York, where Carmel Snow lured him into Harper's Bazaar with a 100.000 $ contract, and the Golden Triangle was born: Snow, Brodovitch and Munkácsi. Richard Avedon said: " Martin Munkácsi brought a taste for happiness and honesty and a love for women to what was before him, a joyless, loveless, lying art. Today the world of what is called fashion is peopled with Munkácsi's babies, his heirs... The art of Munkácsi lay in what he wanted life to be, and he wanted it to be splendid. And it was."
PRADA S/S 2001 campaign by Steven Meisel
By the way, Steven Meisel is surely one of those heirs Avedon was talking about...
TTFN ♥
No comments:
Post a Comment