Performances in N.Y.C. Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary.

The names that circle around Alexey Brodovitch are well-known ... of Advertising Design at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Harper’s Bazaar, January 1936; Image courtesy ...

Now the subject of a show at the Barnes Foundation, the longtime art director of Harper’s Bazaar brought a fresh aesthetic to the world of magazines and influenced generations of photographers.

Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971) was a pioneering art director, whose twenty-five-year tenure at Harper’s Bazaar makes him a key figure in editorial design history. The collection is particularly rich in ...