Cabotinages: Les plus belles photos de chiens - Softcover

Silverman, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811821722 ISBN 13: 9780811821728

Publisher: Chronicles Books, 2000

Synopsis

More than 100 photographs from Pulitzer-Priz e winning photographer Lucian Perkins, many unpublished unti l this book, reveal the behind-the-scenes story of the infam ous New York fashion week. '

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It's a fashion show. There are beautiful models, fancy clothes, A-list celebs. There's also pushing and shoving by the mob of photographers crammed into a section at the foot of the runway trying to get shots worthy of running in fashion magazines. And then there's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Washington Post" staff photographer Lucian Perkins, stationed on the side of the runway, spinning around to photograph the onlookers or bending down to photograph a model's foot in mid-step.

Perkins, who has been on general assignment with the "Post" since 1979, and won his Pulitzer for a four-year look at how poverty affected three generations of a family, has applied his documentary approach in covering the New York fashion shows for ten years. "I enjoy shooting the scene around the fashion shows," he says. "It's a very sort of bizarre culture." Perhaps because Perkins is more removed from the fashion world than some photographers, he is able to focus not so much on the clothes as the people behind the productions. The results are in Perkin's new book, "Runway Madness." For the 45-year-old photographer, who just shot a story on environmental problems in Russia, doing the fashion shows isn't always easy. "Everyone comes to watch a show for 20 minutes, then they dash off to the next show," he says. "It is a really exhausting work."

Lucian Perkins, a staff photographer for the "Washington Post, " has received numerous awards including "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" in 1994, by the National Press Photographers Association for a portfolio that included projects in Russia an his behind-the-scenes fashion work in New York, the focus of "Runway Madness." The New York fashion world seems far removed from war-torn Chechnya, where Perkins photographed a small boy looking out the window of a bus, which won him World Press Photo of the Year in 1996, or the work for which he and "Post" reporter Leon Dash were aw

About the Author:

Lucian Perkins received a Pulitzer Prize in photography in 1995 and World Press Photo of the Year in 1996. A staff photographer for the Washington Post, he has covered the New York fashion shows for more than a decade. He lives in Washington, DC. Read an
Robin Givhan is the fashion writer for the Washington Post and a three-time winner of the Atrium Award for fashion reporting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicles Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0811821722
• ISBN 13: 9780811821728
• Binding: Paperback