FSN 510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Guy Bourdin, Eadweard Muybridge, Hussein Chalayan
18 Sep 2018
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Recently exploded due to digital advances in production and dissemination. Unfolds in time yet fixes the fashion image. Digital fashion film doesn"t go away - you can always see it again. "movement was a trop of modernity from the beginning of the twentieth century" Modernists and avant-garde obsession with depicting motion and speed. When looking into the spinning scope, it looks like the figures are dancing. Interest in showing the fashion body in motion. Sample choreographies to study the body in motion. Projected the fashion films on streets of paris. Would have been shown in theatres - no tvs at the time. Norman hartnell"s 1938 spring collection making fashion, humphrey jenning, A look at the behind the scenes of fashion. Intimate, but portrayed an ideal vision of what behind the scenes looked like. Increase in acceptance of cinema as a form that could work with fashion. Not completely consumer - a little more high end.
