International Center of Photography Focuses on Yves Saint Laurent and Photobooks

The International Center of Photography in New York will open its Yves Saint Laurent and Photography exhibition tomorrow exploring how the photographic picture turned central to the making of the home of Yves Saint Laurent over 4 a long time. 

The exhibition will carry collectively pictures by Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Robert Doisneau, Horst P. Horst, William Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, David Seidner, and Andy Warhol alongside archival supplies to indicate how images was used not only for promotion, however as a significant aspect in shaping identification, affect and cultural discourse.

Yves Saint Laurent himself maintained an lively relationship with many photographers, viewing the medium as a method to take dangers within the fashioning of his identification and in pushing the boundaries of what was deemed acceptable or related, particularly with regard to gender roles and expectations.  

The first part of the exhibition brings collectively portraits and trend pictures chronologically tracing the evolution of Yves Saint Laurent’s creations and emblematic portraits of the couturier. Highlights embody:

• the hanging portrait of Yves Saint Laurent by Irving Penn in 1957
• experimental pictures by William Klein in 1962
• pictures by Bettina Rheims backstage at runway exhibits within the Eighties

The second part retraces these similar years by means of the presentation of greater than 200 objects from the archives of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris together with contact sheets, promoting notebooks and marketing campaign catalogues, press clippings, magazines and private pictures. These reveal the central function that images performed within the lifetime of the couturier and within the historical past of his trend home. 

“Yves Saint Laurent understood both the documentary power of photography as a tool to preserve something for eternity that might otherwise be ephemeral and its ability to elevate that which it documented,” stated a spokesperson for the exhibition. “The inclusion of printed matter in Yves Saint Laurent and Photography demonstrates how these images circulated and were presented to the public in varied contexts, while also showing how fashion photography inspired the fashion designer.”

The exhibition runs by means of September 28.