‘Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography’ at the Getty Museum reveals the limits of the art form

Christopher Knight | LA Times | 18th July 2018

A survey of fashion photography exposes some deep fault lines – notably, is fashion photography art? One reviewer makes the case strongly, even while admitting it is the “bastard stepchild of the fine art world”. This writer is unsatisfied. Of course it is art, but “of a distinctly minor sort. As art, fashion photography is thinner than a supermodel. Call it anorexia aesthetica.”