Fashion model with llamas, Cusco, Peru, 1952. Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines. A fashion model is a person employed to wear clothing or pose with a product for purposes of display and advertising. Toni Frissell, or Antoinette Frissell Bacon, (March 10, 1907 - April 17, 1988) was an American photographer, known for her fashion photography, WWII photographs, portraits of famous Americans and Europeans, children, and women from all walks of life. She died of Alzheimer's disease in 1988 at the age of 81.