Beyond Fashion
2020.04.11 - 07.25

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Exhibition Duration
April 11 to July 25, 2020
Time
Tuesday-Sunday, 10:30-17:30
(last entry 17:00)
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Full Price: ¥40 / Student Price: ¥30
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Introduction

Curated by photography specialist Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the Swiss Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, SCoP is thrilled to present an amazing array of photographs from the creative vision of photographers like Paolo Roversi and Nick Knight, the late Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019), Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Juergen Teller. We are also proud to do so alongside the work of women photographers like Ellen von Unwerth, Viviane Sassen, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Emma Summerton, Ina Jang, and two of China’s hot young photographers Kiki Xue and Feng Li. Join us in discovering how their highly individual approach to the aesthetics of an image takes their works beyond the simple ideas we have about fashion.
In recent decades, fashion photography has expanded its horizons beyond a “hard sell” of the garments themselves. The creative vision of its photographers today gives ever more visual form to the diverse ways in which we like to identify ourselves. Success is elusive. How to keep up with a pace of style that would be for most people exhausting? To make a mark, fashion photographers rely upon creative vision today like never before where each new season presents a new array of aspirations. For the photographers presented here, the challenge is clearly exhilarating.
“Beyond Fashion” comes to Shanghai as part of an international tour. And, located arguably in China’s most stylish city, SCoP is honored to play host to an exhibition which goes beyond the simple artifice of a conventional fashion photo, to look not only at how models are used to sell us the garments we desire, but at how clothing has come to define everything about our personality. In less politically-correct times, we would describe our theme as “Clothes maketh the man”. Today, clothes clearly maketh everyone! Not only do women drive the fashion industry with a gusto equal to that of their male counterparts, but there is an entire generation of female photographers ambitious to be every bit as good and better than the male legends of the fashion industry.
Come and see for yourself how these amazingly creative photographers play with aesthetics in extraordinary ways to project narratives that reach beyond fashion.
Photographers
Miles Aldridge
Kent Baker
Michael Baumgarten
Olivia Bee
Blommers & Schumm
Koto Bolofo
Coco Capitan
Elinor Carucci
Elaine Constantine
Maisie Cousins
Jack Davison
Jonathan de Villiers
Horst Diekgerdes
Zoë Ghertner
René Habermacher
Ben Hassett
Aimée Hoving
Ina Jang
Paul Jung
Sebastian Kim
Nick Knight
Anaïs Leu
Feng Li
Peter Lindbergh
Glen Luchford
Erik Madigan Heck
Raymond Meier
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Hanna Moon
Marton Perlaki
Paolo Roversi
Daniel Sannwald
Viviane Sassen
Scheltens & Abbenes
Scott Schuman
Heji Shin
Emma Summerton
Sølve Sundsbø
Juergen Teller
Mario Testino
Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Willy Vanderperre
Ellen von Unwerth
Ben Watts
Bruce Weber
Kiki Xue
Yelena Yemchuk
Txema Yeste
The Curator
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This exhibition has been organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, in collaboration with Shanghai Center of Photography. FEP was founded in 2003 as a non-profit organization. Based in Minneapolis, a city with a vibrant tradition for support for the arts, FEP has produced a large number of highly successful exhibition travelling to 35 countries on 4 continents. Catalogues produced in conjunction with the exhibition have been published in many language editions. Exhibitions include “Civilization: The Way We Live Now’; “Arnold Newman: Masterclass”, “William Wegman: Being Human” among numerous others.