When You’re a Boy
From Galliano’s Warriors, photographed by Nick Knight, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in Arena Homme Plus, Summer/Autumn 2007
The modern climate encourages creative industries to collaborate and more and more successful projects are born breaking the boundaries.
The Photographer’s Gallery is no exception and this summer will present an exhibition ‘When You’re a Boy’ that focuses on men’s fashion stylist Simon Foxton’s work.
The showcase will include work of such photographers as Nick Knight, Jason Evans and Alasdair McLellan and Foxton’s range of photographic prints, scrapbooks and image installation produced while working with John Balsom, Donald Christie and others. The stylist raises the questions of definitions of masculinity, national identity and taste while capturing menswear’s spirit and energy.
Foxton, known for his witty and often provocative approach, anticipated and defined key shifts in menswear design since the early 1980s. Historic portrait iconography and classic English men’s tailoring are combined with contemporary sportswear design, street fashion and references to gay subcultures to produce sophisticated and innovative fashion images for a range of brands and magazines.
The exhibition ‘When You’re a Boy’ runs 17 July – 4 October but while you wait visit the current exhibition ‘The Photographic Object’ that explores the ambiguous space between two and three dimensions by such international artists as Maurizio Anzeri, Walead Beshty, Annette Kelm, Gerhard Richter, Alina Szapocznikow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol and Catherine Yass.
The Photographer’s Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
