Vanity

Fashion photography conveys images and trends. it drafts ideal images of femininity, elegance, and glamour and then does away with them. Fashion photography visualizes collective conceptions of beauty and documents the change of cultural interests. dedicated to the subject of photography and fashion, the show Vanity, spanning from early studio photography to dynamic settings in urban space, from surreal compositions to ironic views of the fashion industry, from the mise-en-scène of dresses to supermodels, presents about twohundred works from the F.C. gundlach Collection. landmark photographs as well as unknown pictures from the late 1920s to the present day testify to the suggestive power of fashion photography between innovation and tradition, consumerism and art. F.C. gundlach, a fashion photographer himself, has assembled one of the most comprehensive private collections of photographs in the germanspeaking world. He has never understood fashion photography as veneer, but seen it as a culture’s form of expression mirroring an era’s zeitgeist and view of man in their outward appearance.

Curators: Synne Genzmer, F.C. Gundlach

Exhibition Catalogue (Out of stock):Editors: Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt, F. C. Gundlach Foundation; with texts by: Gerald A. Matt, F.C. Gundlach, Isabelle Azoulay, Synne Genzmer, Frédéric Monneyron; Interview: Gerald A. Matt with F. C. Gundlach
220 pages, app. 95 images, german/english
ISBN 978-3-86984-270-7

Guided tour: Vanity
every Sunday 3 pm