JEANETTE KORAB
Fusing Art Into The Illustration Of Fashion By JAMIE ELLIN FORBES
“I like to work with unusual angles to emphasize classic timeless beauty, to bring out the inner essence…”
all images © Jeanette Korab 2009
Jeanette Korab the wife of the late artist Vladimir Gorsky, has reopened her photographic studio in Dallas, Texas, Korab Photography and Fine Art. Jeanette put her own career on hold while establishing Gorsky Fine Art and to help further Vladimir’s robust international career. The married team successfully focused on his accomplishments during their time together. Jeanette found that after Vladimir lost his two year fight against brain cancer, she was able to find salvation in her work, relaunching her own career. After apprenticing during graduate school with Dallas’ noted Fashion Photographer Constance Ashley, Jeanette opened her first studio, J. Korab Photo Design in 1976, and began photographing models from the top fashion agency in Dallas, Kim Dawson. Her clientele grew to include Neiman Marcus, Lou Lattimore, Daired’s Spa Pangia, Balliet’s, (W) magazine, FASHION! DALLAS, of the Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, designer Victor Costa, Rosewood’s five star Hotel & Resorts of the Carolyn Hunt family and icons such as The Neville Brothers and Elizabeth Taylor. Jeanette handled photo assignments from Dallas’ own Southfork Ranch to Hollywood, to Monet’s Garden in France, to Hong Kong. During her years with Vladimir, Jeanette never totally lost touch with her subjects, clients and love of photography. She began again recently to accept photographic projects as well as create her own upcoming line of fine art photographic prints. Korab combines her experiences in the fine art and fashion photography worlds to expand her artistic horizons, bringing a sophistication and in-depth look of beauty to the subjects found by her camera’s eye. Korab attended Stephens College, Columbia Missouri, receiving a BFA degree in Fashion Design. She taught abroad at the American Fashion College of Switzerland, Lucerne in 1974-75. Her students gained from her insight and interest in modeling, fashion design, and fashion illustration. Returning as a Graduate student in 1975-76, Korab refined her talent by attending Texas Woman’s University for a masters program in Fashion Illustration, developing her thematic interest in “illustrating fashion through photography” and branding it within her industry as distinctive. Creating art through fashion using the camera’s lens and her distinctive appreciation of light, Jeanette captures the inner beauty of her subjects in the energy of the moment, fusing all the elements into an amalgam, the end result of which is an artistic impression of distinctive beauty. Korab’s use of light wrapped around and amidst the human form is the hallmark of her work, glorification of her subjects and imagery without artificiality. “I compose angle and light to enhance the human form,” she says. “Photography satisfies me creatively when the results are classic, timeless beauty.” Her technique of joining individual compositional designs into a coherent artistic statement with style, dress, poise and fashion posture are the primary factors that inform her work from the beginning of her career up to the present day. With Vladimir’s art still very much at the forefront of her life, Jeanette established the Vladimir Gorsky Foundation to foster art in education and expand on her and Vladimir’s philanthropic message of assistance to those in need. To get involved, visit vladimirgorskyfoundation.org. korabphoto@aol.com Fine Art Magazine • Fall 2009 • 63