Regina RELANG, was a German fashion photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s and 1960s. She documented the latest designs of prominent fashion houses. Regina RELANG, born Regina LANG, was born in Stuttgart in 1906, daughter of painter Paul LANG and textile designer Minna LANG-KURZ. Her younger sister was the jewelry designer Anni SCHAAD. RELANG studied painting at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Her introduction to the world of fashion came after she befriended fashion photographer Willy MAYWALD and moved to Paris. RELANG began working for Vogue in 1938, publishing photographs in the French, American, and British editions. Her work was also regularly used in Die Dame, Madame (magazine), Harper's Bazaar, Film und Frau, and Constanze. RELANG was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1972 and the David Octavius Hill Medal in 1973. She died in Munich in 1989.