richard avedon research paper/early fashion photography help

bbcarver

hello i am currently writing a research paper on richard avedon's fashion photography, and i keep reading that 'he revolutionized the fashion photography world back in 1945" with the free movement of the models. i have been searching for examples of pre-avedon fashion photography that he revolutionized. but can't seen to find anything worth analyzing against avedon's work. if anyone can point me in a direction of these early examples that would be awesome because i've been stuck in this rut for hours now.

Art Scott

I hate to say this but have you tried your local library for books on early fashion modeling...............



EDIT:
did find this:
Traditionally, fashion photographs depicted elegant, aloof models in static poses. However, following the lead of the innovative Hungarian photographer Martin Munkasci, Avedon produced photographs blurred by the model's motion. By using a wide variety of settings and suggesting a plot through the model's expressive gestures, Avedon introduced an emotional complexity new to fashion photography. Later he took all his photographs in his studio, photographing the models in motion against the plain, white background that became his trademark. These fashion photographs, appearing in the editorial pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, brought him prestige, but the lucrative part of his work was advertisements to which he seldom signed his name.

At this link:

http://tinyurl.com/y685m8t