Throughout his career, Irving Penn explored the artistic possibilities of fashion photography, notably through more than sixty years of collaboration with Vogue magazine. By blurring the boundaries between commissioned photography and artistic practice, he profoundly left his mark on the history of the genre.
In a context where the practices of fashion photography are evolving, this encounter brings together the perspectives of Marie Deteneuille, whose work explores the representation of women at the intersection of portraiture, fashion and the nude, and of Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet-Napoleone, creative director of M Le magazine du Monde and co-founder of the agency Jacobs+Talbourdet-Napoleone.
How is a fashion image constructed today? What place do the relationship between photographer and model, studio work and new production methods occupy?