Over the last twenty years, fashion photography has emerged as one of culture's core mediums. Archeology of Elegance presents an "archaeological" view of the best fashion photography over the last two decades, unearthing the various attitudes and offering a unique perspective on fashion history.
Over two hundred images by sixty-two of the world's best photographers serve to visualize the qualities and forms of recent cultural forces, from the rebellious energy and poetry of punk and the post-modern and Modernist variants of 1980s glamor, to the high-tech and futurist aesthetic and the way in which fashion has increasingly become allied to fine art.