Harper's Bazaar Essays

  • Diana Vreeland's Life and Accomplishments

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    People always ask me who my favorite designer is. I always find it to be a pretty impossible question. How can you choose between someone like Alexander McQueen and Channel, or what about the clothes I wear every day? I do not even know who designs most of those. I feel like there are too many designers with vastly different ascetics, yet, they are still so breathtakingly impeccable. So now, I choose Diana Vreeland. Although she did not design clothing, nearly her whole life was spent creating beauty

  • Richard Avedon: Changing the Future Through Art

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    Dorcas Nowell, a model known professionally as Doe Avedon. They divorced after five years. In 1951, he married Evelyn Franklin. The pair later separated. In 1945 his photography career began. He began his career in fashion photography in 1945 with Harper's Bazaar, switching to Vogue magazine in 1966. A retrospective exhibition of his work was mounted in 1978 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Richard Avedon was the first staff photographer in the history of The New Yorker in 1992. Avedon’s

  • Alexey Brodovitch: The Nature Of Graphic Design

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    director of Harper’s Bazaar. The use of white space, asymmetrical layouts and dynamic imagery have made Brodovitch himself distinctive from other designers at the time, thus shifted the nature of magazine design into the next level. With the first poster “Bal Banal” in a competition, Brodovitch career as a graphic designer brought him many opportunities of various designers and agencies, as speaking of Harper’s Bazaar and Portfolio. Carmel Snow, an editor-in-chief of the Harper’s Bazaar once said when

  • The Emergence of Appalachian Stereotypes in 19th Century Literature and Illustration

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    Winter in the South, by David Hunter Strother. Harper's Magazine 16 (January 1858)print Strother, David Hunter"Going to Mill".1858 A Winter in the South, by David Hunter Strother. Harper's Magazine 16 (January 1858)print Strother, David Hunter"Going to School".1858 A Winter in the South, by David Hunter Strother. Harper's Magazine 16 (January 1858)print Strother, David Hunter"Kan Foster".1858 A Winter in the South, by David Hunter Strother. Harper's Magazine 16 (January 1858)print

  • How Did Boss Tweed Rise To Power

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    William M. Tweed is the most infamous American politician of the 1800’s. His excessive frauds and eventual downfall propelled him into infamousy. Despite having the charm to acquire many associates, Tweed chose to use his skills to gain wealth and power for himself and others. Through his rise to power to his fall and enemies, Boss Tweed remained one of the most important figures in New York City history. Born in New York City, at a time of civil unrest, Tweed had a passion for acquiring knowledge

  • Thomas Nast: Revolutionizing Illustrations in Media

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    “An illustration is a visual editorial - it 's just as nuanced. ” or at least Charles M. Blow says. In all actuality, what would the world be without illustrations? As ironic as it may sound, the world would be flat without 2-dimensional illustrations. Illustrations bring more context to the world around us as styles and aesthetic expectations evolve. From cave paintings to Google’s Material Design, humanity has made many innovations in art and design. Thomas Nast deserves a spot in history for his

  • Travel Writing is a Fictionalised Account of a Journey of Self Discovery

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    Travel Writing is a Fictionalised Account of a Journey of Self Discovery "Travel is the best education that a man can have. There are things you learn in a few months of third world travel that you won't get on a job or in a classroom." Craig D. Guillot BootsnAll Photojournalist[1] The above quote was taken from a travel website, it was made by a photojournalist of the site and sums up the theory I have on travel writing. This essay will set out to prove that although there are those

  • Richard Avedon

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    Avedon went back to school, at the New School for Social Research, to pursue photography and learn from Alexey Brodovitch, a well known photographer and designer at the Harper’s Bazaar magazine. Brodovitch influenced Avedon to take high caliber photos and eventually hired him as a staff photographer at the magazine. It was at Harper’s Bazaar where Richard’s career really took off. He was sent to France in the late 1940’s to take a fashion photo shoot. From then on Avedon was renowned as an extremely talented

  • Andy Warhol Case Study

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    with the latest trend. The big apple was the epicentre of his newly found fame since his move to New York from Pittsburgh in 1949. Before he was a pop artist, Andy Warhol was a commercial artist who worked for magazine liked glamour, vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. There, he did illustrations using blotted line techniques. A method which requires a fountain ink pen, tracing paper or absorbent paper with some watercolour dyes. The results give off a distorted drawing in a form of broken lines and dots, creating

  • De Meyer: Father Of Fashion Photography

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    The images that will be compared in this essay are Two Models at a Table by Baron Adolf De Meyer and Atelier Couture by Paolo Roversi. Baron Adolf De Meyer is considered by many to be the founder of fashion photography. De Meyer was born in 1868 in Paris, France. He studied in Germany during a time when photography was being revitalized by increasingly vibrant and cultured artistry in photographic salons and exhibitions and by technical advances. In the 1890s, he was active in amateur pictorialist

  • Diana Vreeland Analysis

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    mother, she remained optimistic and eventually achieved her goal of gaining popularity with her peers. Like her socialite mother, she became a regular in the society pages. Although Diana Vreeland never attained a college education, in 1937, Harper’s Bazaar hired her as fashion editor, writ... ... middle of paper ... ...mportant subject to learn about because she changed fashion forever. Ironically, this awkward and eccentric girl grew up to become the 20th century’s authority on style. During

  • Diane Arbus

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    Diane Arbus Diane Arbus was a distinct American photographer widely known for her black and white images of people such as dwarfs and giants, mentally retarded individuals, triplets, transvestites and nudists. She traveled the city, photographing those who lived on the edge of society. She was fascinated by people who were clearly creating their own identities. Diane Arbus was born Diane Nemerov to a wealthy Jewish family in New York City on March 14, 1923. She was the second of three children, between

  • How Did Richard Avedon Influenced Photography

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    products are promoted commercially. He developed a style that had never been seen before, changing the medium of photography to be not only a tool to sell products, but also to be an art form. Avedon was only 19 when he was hired to work at Harper’s Bazaar magazine. His style of photographs were not what people were normally used to seeing. The fashion photographers of the 1930’s and 40’s followed the Art Deco tradition of photography where the models stood still, posing like statues, and with

  • Mary Wilkins Freeman's The Revolt of Mothe

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    A Modern Woman in a Not so Modern Time Mary Wilkins Freeman's, "The Revolt of Mother" first appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1890, as a short story. The story is laden with conflict throughout. Sarah Penn's (Mother's) conflict is driven by her strong conviction for fair treatment by her husband. She is in conflict with her husband, the community and the gender role defined by the social conventions of that era. Sarah's conflict with her husband begins immediately upon the opening sentences of the

  • Liz Claiborne Research Paper

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    and her mother taught her how to sew. In 1939, at age 10, Liz Claiborne’s family left Brussels, Belgium for their new home in New Orleans, Louisiana. When Liz was twenty-one years old, her sketch for a women’s coat won a design competition for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. With her sketching abilities and her winning sketch, she began working on Seventh Avenue in New York City as a design assistant and a model. While working on Seventh Avenue, she designed sportswear, dresses, and tailored clothing. From

  • Salvador Dali: Influences

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    Perhaps one of the world's greatest artists is the Hispanic artist Salvador Dali. He won many awards and became very successful in his work as an artist. During his childhood and thereafter, during the Depression, Salvador Dali's artwork and personality were influenced by many different people and entities. Dali's personal life exhibited to his contemporaries and those who enjoyed his works after his lifetime the various influences that led to his artistry. During his childhood, his family life was

  • Abortion: Article Analysis

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    The media and the reader are some of the main reasons for the perpetuation of misinformation with the abortion topic. Abortion is a huge controversial topic that is challenging the human nature of the public. With abortion, the problem is you can either be for or against abortion, pro-life or pro-choice, there is no “in between”. There is only two sides and both have major issues with the other side. The sources used are “Why Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It”, “The Rights of A Woman Does

  • Narrative Essay On Elon Musk

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    Max Gaston Period 3 Finding the way in a new, scary, and suddenly oversized world is one of the hardest tasks a human ever undertakes. Finding the way against the odds and becoming successful, is something humans all wish for, but hardly ever reach. It takes a particular set of circumstances, no matter the connotation, to become truly exemplary. One of these exemplary outliers is Elon Musk, now successful billionaire ,and real life version of the Marvel genius, Tony Stark. Elon musk is a native South

  • What Makes Anderson Cooper An Outlier?

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    crazy personal life as an actress, writer and artist. She is an iconic figure in American popular culture in the 20th century. And due to Cooper’s mothers connections he started young on his fame. As a baby he was photographed for the cover of Harper's Bazaar by Diane Arbus, and later he enjoyed a brief career as a child model, appearing in ad campaigns for companies such as Macy's and Ralph Lauren. Not only did his mother get him his modeling career but as well as introducing him to many famous people

  • Comparing and Contrasting The Rocking Horse-Winner by Hawthorne and The Lottery by Jackson

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    An Explication of Passages in “The Rocking Horse Winner” By D.L. Hawthorne {It came whispering from the springs of the still-swaying rocking horse, and even the horse, bending his wooden, champing head, heard it. The big doll, sitting so pink and smirking in her new pram, could hear it quite plainly, and seemed to be smirking all the more self-consciously because of it. The foolish puppy, too, that took the place of the teddy-bear, he was looking so extraordinarily foolish for no other reason