The history of men, the history of style. As unique and seductive in its infinite versions as the style of Uomo Vogue, the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine for men, which has told and made the history of elegance since 1967. “The Vogue Men” is an exhibition curated and promoted by Fotopratica Immagini and Carla Sozzani, inspired by the magazine’s current of thought and its refined provocations. Over a hundred photographs on exhibit, in black and white and in colour, and a monographic issue of the magazine, go over the steps in a fascinating itinerary taking us through the world of men’s lifestyles and the men who live them.
A fine thread, precious as silk, binds together 25 years of history: the eye of Uomo Vogue, the culture and sensitivity with which Condé Nast’s magazine has identified the faces, gestures and emotions that have come together, through the most mysterious of alchemies, to create the word “style” over the years.
A unique, original game of mirrors and reflections, a meeting on equal ground of the style of the images and the style of the men who appear in them. The elegance of the clothes, classic and severe, bold and bizarre, but always genuine and natural, has seduced the most famous figures in international culture, making every issue into a huge, various, unforeseeable, always up-to-date fresco of contemporary society.
Of course the magazine has drawn on the work of the most cultivated and innovative photographers, each with their own original, contemporary visual style: our travelling companions in this kaleidoscopic trip around the world. No other magazine can count on such talented contributors.
The history of great fashion photography is here, with features from the past and present by Irving Penn, Ugo Mulas, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Alfa Castaldi, Richard Avedon, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Walter Chin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Michel Comte, Steven Klein, Jeanloup Sieff, Manfredi Bellati, Barry McKinley, Carlo Orsi, Willy Rizzo.
On the street, on the beach, in luxurious mansions, amongst the canvases in an artist’s studio or against a simple white background, photographers capture the infinite subtleties of male seduction, without any useless staging or easy exoticism. They only photograph what really exists and happens, sometimes even taking this dictate to extremes.
The names of some of the men who appear in the photographs will be sufficient to confirm that the photographers are culturally open-minded but severe in their pursuit of quality and talent: Luchino Visconti, Mick Jagger, Lucio Fontana, Ingmar Bergman, Dino Buzzati, Woody Allen, Lou Reed, Gary Oldman, Sandro Chia, Robert Altman, Francesco Clemente, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ken Follett, Kyle McLachlan, Giorgio De Chirico, Federico Fellini, Claudio Abbado, Jaye Davidson, Robert Graham.
Photographers, reporters and designers have got together and set themselves the common goal of achieving a complete, self-sufficient ideal of style for men. Regardless of size or age.
The models are up to the challenge. Aware of their attractiveness, the Vogue men, bearing the signs of time and of passion, reveal the creative power of their vanity, their taste, their vices, and their weapons of seduction, which are still the same as they were centuries ago: irony and intelligence.
THE VOGUE MEN
1967 – 1994
In collaboration with Vogue Italia
The history of men, the history of style. As unique and seductive in its infinite versions as the style of Uomo Vogue, the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine for men, which has told and made the history of elegance since 1967. “The Vogue Men” is an exhibition curated and promoted by Fotopratica Immagini and Carla Sozzani, inspired by the magazine’s current of thought and its refined provocations. Over a hundred photographs on exhibit, in black and white and in colour, and a monographic issue of the magazine, go over the steps in a fascinating itinerary taking us through the world of men’s lifestyles and the men who live them.
A fine thread, precious as silk, binds together 25 years of history: the eye of Uomo Vogue, the culture and sensitivity with which Condé Nast’s magazine has identified the faces, gestures and emotions that have come together, through the most mysterious of alchemies, to create the word “style” over the years.
A unique, original game of mirrors and reflections, a meeting on equal ground of the style of the images and the style of the men who appear in them. The elegance of the clothes, classic and severe, bold and bizarre, but always genuine and natural, has seduced the most famous figures in international culture, making every issue into a huge, various, unforeseeable, always up-to-date fresco of contemporary society.
Of course the magazine has drawn on the work of the most cultivated and innovative photographers, each with their own original, contemporary visual style: our travelling companions in this kaleidoscopic trip around the world. No other magazine can count on such talented contributors.
The history of great fashion photography is here, with features from the past and present by Irving Penn, Ugo Mulas, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Alfa Castaldi, Richard Avedon, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Walter Chin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Michel Comte, Steven Klein, Jeanloup Sieff, Manfredi Bellati, Barry McKinley, Carlo Orsi, Willy Rizzo.
On the street, on the beach, in luxurious mansions, amongst the canvases in an artist’s studio or against a simple white background, photographers capture the infinite subtleties of male seduction, without any useless staging or easy exoticism. They only photograph what really exists and happens, sometimes even taking this dictate to extremes.
The names of some of the men who appear in the photographs will be sufficient to confirm that the photographers are culturally open-minded but severe in their pursuit of quality and talent: Luchino Visconti, Mick Jagger, Lucio Fontana, Ingmar Bergman, Dino Buzzati, Woody Allen, Lou Reed, Gary Oldman, Sandro Chia, Robert Altman, Francesco Clemente, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ken Follett, Kyle McLachlan, Giorgio De Chirico, Federico Fellini, Claudio Abbado, Jaye Davidson, Robert Graham.
Photographers, reporters and designers have got together and set themselves the common goal of achieving a complete, self-sufficient ideal of style for men. Regardless of size or age.
The models are up to the challenge. Aware of their attractiveness, the Vogue men, bearing the signs of time and of passion, reveal the creative power of their vanity, their taste, their vices, and their weapons of seduction, which are still the same as they were centuries ago: irony and intelligence.