... to sell clothes. Today, FASHION photographers have moved beyond his narrow commercial definition to become cultural anthropologists, laying bare our secrets desires and dissolving the boundaries between what is worn and the way we wear it." [Fashion Photography of the Ninties-N. Wakefield and C. Nickerson.] Fashion photography navigates between two supposedly oppositional forces--creativity and commerce. While fashion photographs are inextricably linked to something being sold and marketed and, therefore, required to be commercially successful, fashion photographers also create images that reflect their personal artistic notions, as well as match the innovation and creativity of the clothing they photograph. Current fashion photography is not chiefly concerned with an obvious presentation of a specific dress, jacket, or pants. In the fashion photographs by Sean Ellis, Luis Sanchis, and Nick Knight, for example, clothing is subtlety present, even secondary; the images create a certain attitude, mood, or impression rather than sell a specific item of ...

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