ELGORT, Arthur

About US-American photographer, Arthur ELGORT (b.1940, in Brooklyn, NYC)

Arthur ELGORT is a fashion photographer best known for his work with Vogue magazine. The Brooklyn-born is of Russian-Jewish heritage, he raised in New York City and attended Stuyvesant High School as well as Hunter College, where he studied painting. He began his photographic career working as a photo assistant to Gosta 'Gus' PETERSON. His 1971 debut in British Vogue created a sensation in the Fashion Photography world where his soon-to-be iconic 'snapshot' style and emphasis on movement and natural light liberated the idea of fashion photography. He worked for such magazines as Vogue and International Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Teen Vogue, and shooting advertising campaigns with fashion labels as Chanel, Valentino, and Yves Saint Laurent. He continued to work for fashion publications, as well as working on 2009 advertising campaigns with Via Spiga and Liz Claiborne with Isaac Mizrahi. His work is exhibited in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography in New York, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. Arthur ELGORT resides in New York City with his wife, Grethe Barrett Holby

Photo books by as well as with works by Arthur ELGORT

• 'Personal Fashion Picture' (1983); 'Arthur Elgort's models manual' (1993); 'Camera Ready: how to shoot your kids' (1997); 'Camera Crazy' (2004);
  

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