Models on top of the Conde Nast building on Lexington Avenue, New York, 1949 by Norman Parkinson

June 28, 2020During a 1977 television interview, the well-known fashion photographer Norman Parkinson was asked to tell his life story in three words. His response stunned his interviewer: “Not fashion photographer.” What then? Portrait photographer, Parkinson offered. “That’s why my fashion photographs do look a little different,” he explained. “Because the girls in them are […]

We interrupt our series to bring you France 2013! September 21 thru 29th Join Sylvia, of the UK, and myself as we journey south to the rural region known as the Dordogne. This is the land of dizzying heights to the majestic river Dordogne that wends it way through charming villages The land of Chateaux, gastronomic France, and medieval France with sumptuous markets........everywhere! Within this land are ancient caves perfect for aging cheese, abundant bakeries, mushrooms, and ground zero…

Norman Parkinson was a pioneer in fashion photography, becoming one of the most celebrated photographers of the Twentieth Century. In a career that spanned seven decades, Parkinson dazzled the world and inspired his peers with sparkling inventiveness. His work invented the age of the supermodel, dismissing the stiff formality of his forerunners. The images that make up this collection were pulled directly from the photographer’s own personal archive of 500,000 images, many haven’t even been…

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Models wearing ensembles by Dilkusha and Paquin, Harper’s Bazaar, August 1937.

Fashion Archive on Instagram: “• How to pose on an ostrich • Wenda Parkinson appears in many of her husband’s best-loved images. This photograph was taken on the…”

The Norman Parkinson Archive premiered a new series of prints at Paris Photo this month.

And most of all...I'd like to be young and in love in New York... What could be better than that? By the way, this photo is hard to find so if anyone knows where I might buy a print of this (an inexpensive one) please let me know! My favorite picture

Dutch fashion model Apollonia van Ravenstein photographed at Oliver Messel’s house in Barbados wearing Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. British Vogue, July 1973.