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On display at the International Center for Photography in Midtown Manhattan, Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style mimics the purpose of the magazine itself: while browsing through the editorials and covers one is permitted the ultimate luxury of escape, the paramount goal of high-fashion photography. And as any visitor will note, it is also a love letter to the genius of Peter Lindbergh. Credited with helping to create the idea of a supermodel, his portraits of nearly makeup-less models like Kate Moss and Helena Christensen will never cease to haunt and amuse.
In a September article with The Guardian Bailey says she’s always thinking of “what’s next” in terms of the creative limits of fashion magazines, and in her curation of these editorials that theme is none more apparent. One feature titled “Marc on Top” shot by Jean-Paul Goude features a hysterically laughing Jacobs dressed in a ballerina’s ensemble and frolicing in overflowing Louis Vuitton trunks with Naomi Campbell. This piece, and as well as the others featuring Naomi Campbell, most exemplify Bailey’s willingness to embrace the outre; something all too rare in mainstream magazines today.
So take an hour and go. Revel in the heights fashion photography can reach and celebrate the pioneering photographers and editors who have shaped our beloved trade.