Frères Séeberger

Long before anyone called it street style, the Séeberger brothers were picking well-dressed women out of the crowds at Paris race meetings and photographing them where they stood. Fashion magazines printed the pictures as proof of what was really being worn, which is still the basic idea behind every fashion week gallery. The brothers called this work snapshots of high fashion. Look at the poses: the subjects know they are being photographed but are not in a studio, and that halfway point between candid and posed is exactly where the genre still sits.