ONE of the great unsung fashion photography masters, Brooklyn-born James Moore — his parents were first generation American, the children of Chinese immigrants from Canton — was responsible for some of the most iconic images while at Harper’s Bazaar in the 1960s and 1970s.
James Moore: Photographs 1962 – 2006 cover
After attending Alexey Brodovitch’s famous Design Studio, he assisted Avedon (also an alumnus) before starting work at Bazaar in what would be a truly rich period in fashion and youth culture. His vibrant, cinematic images capture this all in clear details – his car series, for example, in 1967 with models Moyra Swann and Barbara Berger placed models off-centre to create a poetic quality that was “lyrical (rather than) sensual” – as described by Ruth Ansel, one of Bazaar’s groundbreaking art directors at the time. A timely discovery of a once-forgotten artist’s magical body of work.
Image included in James Moore: Photographs 1962 – 2006
Image from James Moore: Photographs 1962 – 2006
by Ethan Long
James Moore: Photographs 1962-2006, by Martin Harrison and Holly Brunbach, edited by Nicholas Moore. Published by Damiani and retails at £58