She was an inspiration for many fashion photographers of her time. Dressed in exquisite gowns; long, sexy gloves and truly spectacular hats, Lisa posed for George Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt-Lynes, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. Some photographers, best represented by Horst, use Fonssagrives as a key element in formal compositions. Others, notably Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Frances McLaughlin-Gill, portray her as an active woman in less studied environments. Erwin Blumenfeld exploits her dancer’s strength and agility by photographing her leaning out from the Eiffel Tower, her skirts billowing in the wind.  Penn, her second husband, claimed she was his favorite subject; that she knew exactly what to do for the camera but, most importantly, she knew exactly what not to do. She had a cool easiness to her modeling, she was almost surreal.

 

 

 

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