Overview

A Financial Times Book of the Year A bold exploration of the role of the domestic interior in fashion photography and its importance in defining a new kind of fashion image. For three decades, the fashion image has shifted its focus from high-end shoots to the idiosyncratic, Instagram-style practice of pictures taken at home. That home may be a house, apartment or room - often, though not always, the antithesis of glamour and gloss. The Domestic Stage captures this fascination with the home as an 'uncurated' setting for presenting an individual's private life and relationships, and for professional commissions with edge. Those behind the camera come from very different places, but all celebrate a sense of inventiveness and empowerment from working in the domestic space. How this space merged with the fashion image is revealed through the words and work of twenty-two such image-makers, most of whom talked personally to author Adam Murray. They include the pioneering Nigel Shafran; International Magic, who created virtual fashion shows with Martine Rose during the pandemic; and Carrie Mae Weems, whose 2024 Bottega Veneta campaign truly came 'home' - to show A$AP Rocky enjoying time with his children. Each and every contributor's commentary is candid and revealing, their images even more so. The result is a provocative new take on fashion photography and its transformation in recent years.

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'An extraordinary book' - Another magazine

A unique coffee table book that redefines how we see fashion photography through the lens of the home... It shows how domestic interiors became a powerful stage for fashion's most authentic stories... Visually bold and conversation-sparking.-- ""L'Officiel USA"" These images are a testament to Murray's argument: domestic spaces have become 'uncurated' settings for fashion, where authenticity--or the appearance of it--matters. Clothes or accessories alone are no longer enough to tell a story; instead, the traces of real life that surround fashion choices are what shape their meaning... A thoughtful commentary on how image culture reflects and shapes privacy, identity, performance, and belonging.-- ""Musée Magazine""

Author Information

Adam Murray is a curator, researcher and lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London. A respected authority on photography and the fashion image, he regularly contributes to AnOther and has curated exhibitions at Somerset House, London, and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Murray is based in northwest England.

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