UCCA Beijing

Keys to Coming into Fashion

2017.1.21
14:00-15:30

Conversation
Location:  Auditorium
Language:  English with Chinese translation

Fashion photography is part of our visual culture. It is about elegance, but it is also about people. Glamour, elegance, and sexiness are concepts that are endlessly redefined. During the 1990s in particular, they went hand in hand with their opposites – the ugly, the shocking, the unsightly, and the misshapen – as reflected by both fashion designers and photographers alike. Fashion photography is firmly anchored within the system of consumption, capitalism, and what the Marxist theorist and filmmaker Guy Debord termed ‘spectacle’.

“Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast,” on view at UCCA from 20 January through 5 March 2017, offers a comprehensive survey of the century-long history of fashion photography as pictured and written by Condé Nast. On 21 January, UCCA welcomes the exhibition curator Nathalie Herschdorfe for a talk on fashion images, and how these images mirror the concerns and aspirations of their age. When we look at how fashion photography has developed over the last century, it becomes clear that the creative impulse has survived a system of ever-tighter control.

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• Exclusive seats reservation service

• Members-only guided tour

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Schedule

13:00-13:20 Ticket pick-up at the reception desk (for UCCA members who RSVPed)

13:20-13:50 Exclusive UCCA members-only guided tour

13:30-14:00 ticket distribution at the reception desk (for UCCA members who didn’t RSVP and non-members)

14:00-15:30 Conversation

*Please arrive promptly.

Speaker

Nathalie Herschdorfer (Curator)

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a distinguished art historian who specializes in the history of photography. She is currently Director of the Museum of Fine Arts (Le Locle, Switzerland), and has also been working as a curator at the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and as director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for several years. Previously, she spent twelve years as a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked on major exhibitions such as “Face: The Death of the Portrait” (2004), and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. She is the author of Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011), editor of Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography (2012) and co-author, with William A. Ewing, of reGeneration: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today (2005 and 2010). Among her recent projects are the book NewSwissArchitecture (2015), and a Dictionary of Photography including over 1,200 concise yet fully detailed entries on all aspects of the subject (Thames & Hudson, 2015), the Chinese edition of which is forthcoming in 2017.