ART Fashion photo exhibit featured on Web site

Fine art and high art are included in traveling Japanese exhibition.
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NEW YORK -- Whatever lines remained between fashion, art and Internet commerce are completely blurred in the "Millennium of Mode" photography exhibit.
The photos to be featured on OnView, a Web site that sells fine art, are part of the International Fashion Festival in Japan. Of the 300 photographs included in the traveling Japanese exhibition, 75 are being featured online through April 27.
"I've made a great effort to include fashion photographers whose work isn't considered 'fine art,' but they are editorial photographers whose work is 'high' art," said Marla Kennedy Hamburg, vice president of OnView and co-curator of the exhibit.
"They are photos that can hang on a wall and sustain themselves. The photography isn't images that are just selling something."
She noted the work by model Helena Christensen, whose pictures treat the models and products as secondary elements. Instead, Kennedy Hamburg observed, Christensen created quirky, collage-like photos by drawing on the image.
Included: Other photographers included in the exhibit include Paolo Roversi, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh and Nathaniel Goldberg. Paris-based curator Patrick Remy worked with Kennedy Hamburg in association with H2O Co., an arts organization based in Nagoya, Japan.
The fashion photography exhibit is currently on display at the Seibu Department in Tokyo and moves to JR Nagoya Takashimaya Department in Nagoya, Japan, on April 26. The online portion can be seen at www.onview.com.