Not A Fashion Book

Artist Statement

Fashion photography is taking over the world. Look around you, billboards, screens, and magazines… Fashion industry creates those beautiful illusions for the viewers to enjoy, dream, and eventually de-sire what they offer.

However, the crazy pace of fashion world made the world itself twisted in a certain way. Models are required skinner and skinner, taller and taller, younger and younger. I’ve watched a documentary co-filmed by a model and her boyfriend. It reveals how the shining world ignore those girls are still human being instead of posing machines.

Richard Avedon and his elegant photographs of women models inspired me. He treated like they are his sisters, full of respects to the models.

In this book, I used the photo studio to capture all images. Try-ing to capture the way fashion photography is doing, but at the same time, my focus is my models, my friends. This group of photographs reveals the real them in a brand new outfit. Without overly photo-shopped the images, these photos keeps them in their own ways. Their personalities are more important than the clothing. But at the same time, the clothing looks prettier because of them.

Not a Fashion BookBy Lulu Luo

I’d like to first thank Mr. Shawn Dickey, for your suffering during the whole one and half years. Thanks for all my friends here in Colum-bus. You’ve made my years here.

Typeface:: Minion ProPublisher: blurb2013, Columbus, MS, USASiganature:

Copyright 2013 by the author of this book, Lulu Luo. The Book author retains sole copyright to her contributions to this book.

The Blurb-provided layout designs and graphic elements are copyright Blurb Inc., 2013. This book was created using the Blurb cre-ative publishing service. The book author retains sole copyright to her contributions to this book.