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124 BAL HARBOUR f a ashion orward Fashion photography is seeing a boom in the fine art marketplace with imagemakers like Avedon, Newton and Ritts leading the charge. n impossibly leggy glamazon mugging poolside in couture; a modish, wide- eyed Twiggy parading down the streets of London; a lithe Kate Moss pouting in her skivvies. Beauty may indeed be in the eye of the beholder, but some- thing universally transfixing happens when these bastions of beauty pose for photographers whose careers are predicated on making them shine. Fashion photography is pure fantasy—reckless abandon in the most glamorous sense of the term. In the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Wand Vogue, women aren't women— they're storytellers, reveries and blank canvases. But despite their unwavering commit- ment to the craft, contemporary fashion photographers have historically struggled to B Y R A C H E L W O L F F