This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph, organized by guest curator Vince Aletti, is an exhibition drawn largely from the permanent collection of ICP that looks at the non-fashion sources of contemporary fashion photography. Because many young fashion photographers are more interested in authenticity than artifice, they are looking closely at work by Weegee, Lisette Model, André Kertész, and Danny Lyon. It may not have been the intention of these photographers to make fashion images, but their work touches on style as a means of personal expression. With photographs by Gordon Parks, Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Samuel Fosso, Doris Ulmann, Mark Cohen, Marc Riboud, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ben Shahn, and others.

65 Items
  • Untitled
  • The Son
  • The Fleet Is In
  • New York
  • Celebrating Hitler's birthday, Buffalo, New York
  • Self Portrait
  • Nuit de Noël
  • Ninth Avenue Local, South Ferry
  • [Woman standing in underwear]
  • Central Park, New York
  • Chicago Loop, State & Randolph
  • Untitled
  • Uptown, Chicago
  • Paris
  • Untitled
  • New York City
  • Man in Suit, Panama Hat, Sleeping on Beach
  • Street Scene, Cushing, Oklahoma
  • Opening Night, San Francisco
  • [Hedda Hopper, Hollywood]
  • Robert Rauschenberg, New York City
  • Paraphernalia's Opening and Show
  • Sophie Victor
  • Sylvia Beach
  • Treadwell
  • Serafina
  • New York
  • Boy showing off tattoo in candy store
  • Police Station Lodgers - East 22 St.
  • First Elect. Board. Beach St. Ind. School
  • Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
  • Couples at Square Dance, McIntosh County, OK
  • Man Ray, Hollywood
  • Chicago
  • Naples
  • Woman student outside of the university after news of Batista's departure, Havana, Cuba
  • Acid, Lower East Side
  • Stickball Dance, New York
  • [Red Jackson, leader of the Harlem gang the Midtowners, frisks boy thought to have a gun]
  • Lower East Side
  • Untitled
  • Gloria Swanson, New York City
  • Martha Graham, Ekstasis
  • Chicago
  • [Child, South Carolina]
  • Marty and Veronica
  • New York City
  • To My Little Sister: For Cindy Sherman
  • Studio 54 with Balloons
  • The Circus, Budapest
  • The Irascibles
  • Cattle dealer in western West Virginia
  • [Satchel Paige waiting for pool hall adversary, Harlem, New York]
  • Jacob Girls on Porch
  • Memorial Day Run, Milwaukee
  • Gawker, Tunbridge, Vermont
  • Hazel Harmers, Claude Harlan, Amy Harlan, W.C. Harlan, Billy Gae Rollins, Harford Balentine, Carl Balentine
  • High school student smoking a cigarette on East 100th Street
  • [Coney Island]
  • Spilled Glass and Legs, N.Y.C.
  • Boy
  • The Self-Divided
  • Studio 54
  • In The Background: The Pimp
  • [Woman wearing Dior suit]