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Reviewed on December 1, 2000
Marvelously inventive fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky began at Harper's Bazaar in 1959 at the age of 21, making him a contemporary of Hiro, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon. He immediately established a reputation for bizarre, highly imaginative ideas, often placing his nonchalant models in spatially dislocated settings, such as oversize furniture, upside-down rooms, abandoned buildings, and floating stairwaysDvisuals that were sometimes too daring for editors to publish. Most memorable among his concepts was a plastic bubble in which his models see...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

