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Gleb Derujinsky Photography

Gleb Derujinsky (1925–2011) shot for Harper's Bazaar for 18 years — from 1950 to 1968 — a period that coincided precisely with the golden age of the fashion editorial. Handpicked by the legendary editor Carmel Snow and working alongside Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe under art director Alexey Brodovitch, Derujinsky brought a compositional intelligence to fashion photography that his contemporaries rarely matched. As his Harper's colleague Bruce Clerke put it: "Avedon shot dresses and clothes, Gleb shot women living in them." His best work is defined by the tension between haute couture and the dynamism of real locations — a Balmain gown on the Seine, Chanel at a Parisian bistro, a model on the coast of Ceylon — and the J. Paul Getty Museum recognized as much when it included his photographs in Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911–2011, the most comprehensive survey of the field the museum has ever mounted. His archive has been largely invisible to the print collector market — no major gallery has made it accessible at scale. The signed Gallery Edition prints available through FATHOM are among the first opportunities collectors have had to acquire this work as museum-quality archival prints, strictly limited in edition and produced in our Santa Monica studio.

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