Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context – Behind the Faces of Fashion
Feb 21, 2007
7:00–9:00pm ET
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
This lively panel discussion brings together preeminent representatives from various facets of the fashion industry to discuss fashion photography today, with particular attention to the ways that fashion photography and art collide. The panel coincides with the exhibition Face of Fashion, currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the copublication of the accompanying book by Aperture.
Moderator
Tim Gunn, Chair of Fashion Design, Parsons The New School for Design
Participants
Vince Aletti, writer, critic, and contributor to Face of Fashion
Pascal Dangin, CEO of Box Ltd
Steven Sebring, photographer and director
This panel is part of the Aperture Foundation Lectures: “Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context,” and is presented in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School with generous support from the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation. This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.