DC Modern Luxury | 2014

Far Out Fashion: Exhibition of Fashion Photography work by Fred Maroon, DC Modern Luxury, May 2014

During the height of the Cold War, the idea of slipping into Mongolia to stage a fashion shot was borderline absurd and nearly impossible. But if you were a determined London editor teamed with a freelance photographer who'd shot post-World War II reconstruction, the impediments were dwarfed by ambition. The 1966 journey would produce what are now considered iconic fashion images - all shot by Washington photographer Fred Maroon, who died in 2001 and whose rare fashion work is gaining interest among collectors. "Fred Maroon had never shot a single frame of fashion before 1966," says Peggy Sparks, owner of Artist's Proof Gallery in Georgetown. Her space has teamed up with Maroon's heirs to display and sell 20 pieces of his work this May.