Arthur Elgort: The Big Picture

Celebrated photographer Arthur Elgort has been capturing fashion's biggest faces in his groundbreakingly spontaneous style since his 1971 shoot for British Vogue, the catalyst for a remarkable, ongoing career. Father of the now iconic "snapshot", Elgort's focus on movement and natural light brought a photojournalistic air to fashion photography, liberating the medium from the formal conventions that historically defined it. Galleria Carla Sozzani offers an encompassing five decades view of Elgort's work, including an array of personal photographs as well as a select grouping of some of his most famous fashion portraits of the young women who would go on to become the first generation of supermodels. Casual, lively and delightfully natural, the pictures leave one in no doubt as to the reasons why Elgort is one of the most emulated fashion photographers of the past half-century.