![]() The book, with its high-gloss cover stock and magazine-file slipcase, is meant to evoke the dependably voluminous September issues its breadth allows the page spreads of the past to sprawl luxuriously. ![]() ![]() Vince Aletti’s ISSUES: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines (Phaidon, 467 pp., paper, $95) features 100 outstanding issues from the author’s collection, its chronology initially alternating between Harper’s Bazaar and various editions of Vogue, then in the past few decades leaning more toward such titles as I-D, Pop, Dutch, Huge and Permanent Food. The magazines, well endowed with advertising, were able to apply the highest available standard of reproduction, on coated stock, with generous dimensions. Modernist photography, with its constant quest for the new angle, turned out to be a natural partner for fashion, likewise predicated on the latest thing. ![]() For a century, fashion magazines have delivered to their readers a running account of developments in art photography. ![]()
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