Jean Pagliuso
With Contributions by Ralph Gibson, April Gornik, Clifford Ross,
Maya Lin, Eric Fischl, and Joan Tewkesbury
Jean Pagliuso is a world-class fashion photographer whose
photographs of fashion models and film stars from Susan Sarandon to Sophia
Loren filled the pages of Vogue and Rolling Stone for nearly three decades. But
for her most recent work, Pagliuso trained her lens on a much less conventional
subject: the chicken. An homage to her childhood in Southern California, where
she helped her father breed and show Bantam Cochins, Poultry Suite showcases
more than twenty breeds of chickens—from Sebrights to Spangled Hamburgs—as they
have never before been seen.
Just as in conventional fashion photography, Pagliuso has applied
her well-developed eye to creating interesting compositions while also bringing
out each subject’s unique beauty and personality. In one photograph, a plump hen stares head-on at the camera through a mass
of white feathers. In another, a proud red-combed rooster turns to peer
curiously at the camera. Each portrait in Poultry Suite features a chicken
arranged against a simple background, encouraging viewers to explore the
animals’ anthropomorphic traits. The photographs are complemented by an accessible collection of
texts.
Carefully designed by Shahid and Company, New York, and with
reproductions of nearly fifty photographs, Poultry Suite impeccably applies the
aesthetic excellence of fashion photography to form a true appreciation of the
diversity of these birds.
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