Vogue on Location: People, Places, Portraits
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Travel around the globe with Vogue’s most exotic fashion, travel, and lifestyle stories
Have fashion, will travel. That’s the vision behind Vogue on Location, a journey in itself through the many spectacular voyages that the magazine took over the years. Spanning a century, this remarkable book includes dispatches and travel writing by journalistic icons like Jan Morris, Truman Capote, Lee Miller, Lesley Blanch, and Frances FitzGerald, as well as stunning editorials from legendary photographers like Irving Penn, Henry Clarke, Helmut Newton, Arthur Elgort, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, and Annie Leibovitz.
With historic reportage and landmark fashion shoots in far-flung locales like India, Iran, Morocco, Bali, Vogue on Location captures important moments in both travel and fashion history. An essential addition to any Vogue lover’s shelf, Vogue on Location is sure to inspire a sense of fantasy and flight.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Abrams, Illustrated edition (29 Oct. 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1419732714 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1419732713 |
| Dimensions | 23.88 x 3.43 x 31.24 cm |
by Karolina Banasik
New condition and quick delivery and good price
by Tatjana Haiva
Amazing book. Good quality. Fast delivery
by kirsty
Lovely big book, feels and looks very luxurious on display! Gorgeous photos to flick through, perfect Sunday reading
by Mr. Mark Robert Lyon Taylor
Iam steadfastly collecting all the vogue on books and this was another brilliant one!! Crammed with amazing pictures and write ups xoxo
by Mrs. Jacqueline Hayes
I bought this book as a gift, and she was absolutely thrilled. Inspiring and beautifully shot
by kirsty
Bought as a gift and my friend loved it! Beautiful photographs, great paper, an artefact in it’s own right. Wonderful book!
by mumsy
Due to the commercial and financial funding, Vogue was probably one of the earliest ways the mass public could see photographs of far away locations in the early 20th century. Combined with beautiful clothes and locations and excellent photographers this book could have been a treasure trove of early photographs of far flung ‘exotic’ locations as well as generally even in the modern day pictures that surpass the genetic.
The book mainly focuses on pictures from the 80s and predominantly 90s onwards which makes sense but feels a shame – particularly as the earlier pictures always have a nostalgic feel as many locations will have changed dramatically in the last 50 years or so.
So if you’re looking for more of the ‘older’ pictures in the 60s and before be warned.
However the overarching failure of the book is the thought and pictures selected. A few issues:
The picture quality is sporadic – some pictures are shockingly grainy/blurry – this shouldn’t be happening with film or digital and conde naste certainly should have the skills to avoid this.
The pictures selected themselves are hit and miss. I think pictures should be selected to showcase a particular location AND be able to be a standalone great photograph (location aside). A lot seem to cover the first requirement but not on the second, and there are also a few that don’t seem to fulfil either criteria to be honest.
Rather than a diverse range of lots of different shoots, we often have a selection of many photos from the same shoot. This could be justified if each picture would standalone on its merits, and or if the shoot was particularly spectacular or influential (eg Veruschka in Japan) but we seem to have multiple shots from shoots which often aren’t standalone exceptional in their each individual photo, which only makes me question why multiple shots from such a shoot have been taken.
Frustratingly even from those great shoots we don’t even have the best shots of them! For example the Verushka in Japan shoot – we have a few pictures which are probably the worst ones I’ve seen from this shoot. I’m not sure if this was intentional (as the best ones have been reproduced in other books maybe?) but even if yes, it seems a poor decision and if not it further makes me question the selection of pictures here and how many good ones were missed for the sake of mediocre ones.
There also seems to be too many ‘western’ locations for my liking – Wyoming, Scotland, Paris and Versailles. Whilst beautiful locations I was hoping for a focus on more dramatic landscapes and different cultures rather than a Western focus.
So to conclude this picture fails on a number of fronts – to me it doesn’t achieve its aim of showcasing the great locations, the pictures themselves aren’t standalone (ie without their location they wouldn’t be in any book), the quality of the picture with regard to sharpness is not what I’d expect and the book skews too far towards photos from the 90s onwards rather than over the entire history of vogue for the past 80-90 years or so.
Really disappointed as this had so much potential as some of my favourite vogue photographs (and photographs generally) are those beautiful ones with dramatic landscapes or with a unique cultural focus. It’s missed the mark terribly for me – you’re better off buying the standard “In Vogue” book which has a few of the shots of I was expecting to see, or Avedon or Penn’s books independently if you are interested in those photographers and their location shoots. Norman Parkinson also did some great location shoots as well.
by mick lee
Superb quality book