Vanity : Fashion Photography from the F. C. Gundlach Collection

This catalogue presents about 200 works from the F. C. Gundlach Collection.Early studio photography and dynamic settings in urban spaces as well as surreal compositions, ironic views of the fashion industry, and the mise-en-scène of dresses to supermodels testify to the suggestive power of fashion photography between innovation and tradition, consumerism and art.F. C. Gundlach has never understood fashion photography as veneer, but seen it as a culture's form of expression and has assembled one of the most comprehensive private photography collections of the German speaking world.English and German text.