Fashion magazines were among the earliest to make regular editorial use of photographs. Vogue in 1913 began to publish photographs taken for them by Baron A. de Meyer; he founded a style in which the elegance of fashions is displayed with photographic feeling for textures. In 1923 Edward Steichen—who had taken fashion photographs both in black and white and color photographs for Art et Decoration as early as 1911—joined the staff of Conde Nast. In addition to photographing fashions he produced a great quantity of portraits of celebrities, which appeared regularly in Vogue and in Vanity Fair.
A visit to a drugstore will show how cosmetics and personal care items are illustrated with photographs. Taking a trip through a department store will reveal the use of photographs to illustrate underwear, small electric appliances, houseware items, and many other commodities. You will even notice full-color photographs illustrations being printed on clear film, which is a recent perfection of an old printing process.
Numerous techniques for recording temperature differences make it possible to create heat-map photographs, which clearly portray heat differentials by means of color photographs changes. False-color photographs infrared photography shows images in unnatural hues and increases color photographs differentiation. Originally designed for detection of camouflage by aerial photography, this technique has proved invaluable in forest survey work and in detecting disease or blight in crops.
Fashion magazines were among the earliest to make regular editorial use of photographs. Vogue in 1913 began to publish photographs taken for them by Baron A. de Meyer; he founded a style in which the elegance of fashions is displayed with photographic feeling for textures. In 1923 Edward Steichen—who had taken fashion photographs both in black and white and color photographs for Art et