The catalog got its start in 1968, when U.S. Air Force veteran Gene Burkard returned from Europe with a desire to bring a little of the continent’s fashion home with him.

Bucking the trend for crowd-drawing monographic photography shows is “Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography,” at the J. Paul Getty Trust. It’s been more than 40 years since such a ...

Early in 2007, John Wells, a former fashion and catalog photographer, sold the farmhouse he’d renovated in Columbia County, N.Y., paid off his debts, canceled his credit cards and headed to the ...