CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/27/2017

The iconic fashion photography of James Moore

Fashion photography lovers, rejoice! This week, we release the first major monograph on 1960s Harper's Bazaar mainstay, James Moore (1936-2006). Holly Brubach writes, "In their graphic fascination, Jimmy's photos resonate with the strong currents that were sweeping the culture: Op art, Pop art, a vibrant new energy, a rejection of the etiquette and understatement that had hallmarked the 1950s. 'Models had been standing in a very classic pose,' he recalled. He and his contemporaries were 'trying to break that mold and find another body language,' he claimed. They succeeded. In Jimmy's photos, particularly those that focus on legs and shoes, the feet are often turned in, like a pigeon-toed child's—a position that in retrospect typified the sixties, with its fixation on youth, its Flower Power innocence, its miniskirts, its wide eyes outlined in black.