Carmel Snow, legendary fashion editor, mixes with Hollywood and goes to the beach with Martin Munkacsi in 1933…
Martin Munkacsi, glass plate negatives, San Simeon, Carmel Snow, Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin
In 1933, editor in chief Carmel Snow (who’d been a fashion editor at Vogue) brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history. Until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully staged on mannequin-like models in a studio. Snow’s buoyant spirit (she rarely slept or ate, although she had a lifelong love affair with the three-martini lunch) and wicked sense of adventure (she evaded customs by snipping the labels out of her Parisian couture) brought life to the pages of Bazaar.
Martin Munkacsi, 1933
Martin Munkacsi, 1933
