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  1. 1Fashion Photography (2017)Fashion Photography (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures, Thames & Hudson hardcover, 2017 (Aperture in the US) The one survey here, and the best first buy for someone who wants the whole history before committing to a single photographer. Eugénie Shinkle tells the story of fashion photography through about…0
  2. 2Horst (2014)Horst (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Horst: Photographer of Style, V&A Publishing hardcover, 2014 Led by Susanna Brown, the V&A's curator of photographs, and published for the museum's 2014 retrospective, this 352-page hardcover, about 9.4 by 12.2 inches, sets Horst P. Horst's Vogue fashion work in Paris and New York beside his…0
  3. 3Irving Penn (2017)Irving Penn (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Irving Penn: Centennial, Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover, 2017 The safest gift on the list, because it is still in print at the Met's own store, listed at $70. The catalog of the Met's 2017 centennial show is a 10 by 12 inch hardcover of 372 pages and 365 illustrations, and it places Penn's…0
  4. 4Avedon fashion, 1944-2000 (2009)Avedon fashion, 1944-2000 (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009Avedon Fashion 1944-2000, Abrams hardcover, 2009 Richard Avedon's fashion career from 1944 to 2000 in one 372-page hardcover, about 10 by 12.7 inches and 5.7 pounds, published with the 2009 International Center of Photography exhibition. It runs from his early Harper's Bazaar pictures through his…0
  5. 5A message for you (2006)A message for you (2006)Published Jan 1, 2006Guy Bourdin: A Message for You, Steidl hardcover, third edition 2016 Bourdin's late-1970s peak, told through the memories of the model Nicolle Meyer, who appeared in more than 30 of his Charles Jourdan campaigns, with Polaroids, contact sheets, sketches and poems set beside the finished pictures.…0
  6. 6Helmut Newton. SUMO. 20th Anniversary (2019)Helmut Newton. SUMO. 20th Anniversary (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Helmut Newton. SUMO. 20th Anniversary Edition, Taschen, 2019 The original 1999 SUMO weighed more than 35 kilos, nearly 80 pounds; this reissue, revised by June Newton, brings it down to a still enormous 10.5 by 14.7 inch hardcover in a slipcase, 464 pages and about 13 pounds, with 394 images and a…0
  7. 7Peter Lindbergh. on Fashion Photography - 40th Anniversary Edition (2020)Peter Lindbergh. on Fashion Photography - 40th Anniversary Edition (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Peter Lindbergh: On Fashion Photography, Taschen 40th anniversary edition, hardcover The honest exception on a coffee-table list: at about 6.1 by 8.5 inches it is a chunky handbook rather than a display piece, but its 512 pages pack in more than 300 of Peter Lindbergh's pictures, many previously…0
  8. 8Annie Leibovitz (2022)Annie Leibovitz (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland, Phaidon hardcover, 2021 Leibovitz's own account of five decades of fashion pictures, published in November 2021: 440 pages, about 9.8 by 11.4 inches, with 350 images, many previously unpublished, and a foreword by Anna Wintour. In her preface she notes that fashion has…0
  9. 9Bill Cunningham (2019)Bill Cunningham (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Bill Cunningham: On the Street, Clarkson Potter hardcover, 2019 The cheerful counterweight to studio glamour. This official New York Times collection gathers Cunningham's street pictures from the 1970s until his death in 2016, mixing favorites from the paper with work never published before.…0
  10. 10Tim Walker pictures (2015)Tim Walker pictures (2015)Published Jan 1, 2015Tim Walker: Pictures, teNeues reprint, 2015, of the 2008 monograph The most purely joyful book here: Tim Walker's staged, storybook fashion pictures in a tall hardcover of 368 pages and 268 color illustrations, about 10 by 16 inches, which gives his elaborate sets room to breathe. This 2015…0