Fashion noir

With photographers like Guy Bourdin at the helm, fashion campaigns during the 70s and 80s became increasingly weird and wonderful. Bourdin's photographs in particular skewed all notions of straightforward glamour by introducing morbid, eroticised undertones and bizarre narrative strands. His models were often prostrate or contorted, cropped or obscured and - most worrying of all - seemingly unconscious or dead. Bourdin, who died in 1991, was by all accounts a difficult man to work for, preferring only the most compliant models who would bend to his will. But as the protégé of Man Ray, he was also a consummate artist who gave fashion photography that much-needed injection of controversy and surrealism.