Strike a Pose

In 2014, The New York Times proclaimed that fashion photography was “art’s rising star.” Although fashion photos have long been an important feature of photography auctions before and since then, Christie’s specialist Jude Hull says that last year particularly saw an increase in momentum in the market and it continues to boom.

Fashion magazines are filled with idealized images of glamor and beauty and the best of these photographs, which Hull said intersect fantasy and the sublime, have become increasingly collectible in recent years. She said that images taken by noted photographers including Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh and Herb Ritts regularly appear in the Top-10 lists of auction results.