January 11, 2004

» The decline of fashion photography

The Decline of Fashion Photography | An argument in pictures. | By Karen Lehrman

This image taken by one of today?s biggest celebrity photographers, David LaChapelle, recently went for $3,000. Why does that seem like a worse deal than $28,750 for the Penn? Critics say the problem is that today's fashion photographers see themselves as artists, while their Golden Age predecessors thought they were just working for a living.