Exhibition
Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography
28 Sep 2012 – 6 Jan 2013
Cost of entry
Admission Free
Address
- Albert Square,
- Meadowside
- Dundee
- DD1 1DA
- United Kingdom
Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography
About
The glamour, mystery and drama of some of the world's most striking fashion photographs will be displayed in Dundee from September 2012 in a touring exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography is the second in a series of exhibitions being held at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum leading up to the opening of the V&A at Dundee.
The exhibition features works by giants of twentieth century photography including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and David Bailey, alongside contemporary images by Corinne Day, Rankin, Tim Walker and Steven Meisel.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is home to the UK's National Collection of the Art of Photography. Selling Dreams is drawn from this collection and is the first Victoria and Albert Museum's touring exhibition to explore the work of international fashion photographers from the earliest years of the twentieth century to the present day.
The exhibition will run from the Friday 28th September 2012 until Sunday 6th January 2013
