MAIN EXHIBITION March 29, 2025 - March 26, 2026

Fashion photography

- now and then

Welcome to a grand celebration of the fascinating development of fashion photography - from the elegant studio arrangements of the 1930s to the transgressive and conceptual imagery of today.

Fashion Photography - Now and Then. A celebration of the fascinating evolution of fashion photography

This exhibition brings together iconic works by the world's most influential fashion photographers, showing how their visions have shaped our view of style, beauty and identity for almost a century. In this visual landscape, the classic coexists with cutting-edge creativity, the commercial with the artistic, a place where fashion houses, magazines, photographers and models are given the space to realize their visions.

The journey begins in 1930s Paris and New York, where photographers such as George Hoyningen-Huene and Horst P. Horst transformed fashion into sculptural elegance through careful lighting and classic composition. The post-war period ushered in a new era with Irving Penn's spare, graphic precision and Richard Avedon's vivid portraits that captured movement, personality and fashion in one. The 1980s were characterized by a strong visual style of glamour, sensuality and iconic beauty. Here we find Helmut Newton, the provocateur who challenged norms with charged, often sexually suggestive images, and Herb Ritts, who combined sculptural form with sensuality. At the same time, Patrick Demarchelier emerged with his elegant, timeless aesthetic that came to define an entire era of fashion reporting in Vogue and other influential magazines. The 1990s and early 2000s saw the emergence of a new generation of photographers who introduced a more narrative and raw style that brought emotional depth to fashion images. Notable examples include Steven Meisel, who reflected social issues through staged series of images; Peter Lindbergh, who humanized models through his black-and-white realism; and Paolo Roversi, who gave fashion images a poetic, dreamlike aesthetic with large-format cameras and soft light landscapes. 

In our time, we meet photographers with transgressive expressions, where technology, digital processing and artistic freedom open up new possibilities. Nick Knight combines fantasy and surrealism with digital transformations. Chen Man combines Chinese culture with futuristic digital aesthetics. Steven Klein creates psychological visual dramas where fashion meets theater, and Txema Yeste shapes colorful, dramatic worlds that challenge the boundary between reality and fantasy. Roe Ethridge blurs the line between the commercial and the artistic, with imagery that combines everydayness, irony and the aesthetics of high fashion - a central voice in understanding the dual nature of contemporary fashion imagery.

The exhibition features more photographers than those mentioned - both legends and contemporary pioneers - and together they highlight the ever-changing nature of fashion photography and its power to reflect its times. It brings together ideals and glamor, beauty and questioning, surface and depth - almost a century of visual magic.

Welcome to a world where fashion meets art and each image tells its own story.

Café & Bistro

In direct connection with the Falsterbo Photo Art Museum there is Bistro Perspektiv, a high-class restaurant with café. You can visit Bistro Perspektiv without visiting the museum.
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