Love how much a departure this is from both their styles.
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Posts Tagged ‘black and white photography’
Anna Dello Russo by Helmut Newton, 1996
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October 28, 2010
Can you tell I just re-watched Blue Velvet?
David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton.
Chip Willis
February 18, 2010
Chip Willis’ photographs make me think of dreamy stills from some dark, subtitled movie about despair and explorations of one’s Self through mindless wanderings and moody anonymous sex. Otherwise known as the entire cinematic output of any given European country between 1950 and the present, discounting a couple comedies about soccer. Or the complete contents of my DVD collection when I was 18 and pretentious. Still, I love films like that, and I’d love to see one that contained the images below– I’m thinking something along the lines of L’Avventura?
See more of his pictures on his website and his blog (VERY NSFW… I made the mistake of looking at it to get these pictures, and had to keep on frantically scrolling down, looking over my shoulder in case the office manager walked by. Eek. )
January 9, 2010
God, remember when Kate Moss looked like this?
All photos by Corinne Day, for her Fifteen exhibition.
Hello, Dali!
November 7, 2009
His pictures always make me laugh so much! Can you imagine how much fun it must have been being him?
Dressed Down
October 26, 2009
I feel like this portrait of Daria by Hedi Slimane is pretty close to the Platonic ideal of casual beauty that all things like Gap ads and so on shoot for. I never really noticed before quite how beautiful her face is. Obviously I was aware that she is beautiful, but it had not really struck me until now.The contrast against the sloppy clothing really brings it out. Hedi is usually able to bring out new details from his subjects, though, so this revelation ought to come as no suprise. I’m really quite fond of this photograph.
Daria Werbowy by Hedi Slimane for Paris Vogue August 2007.
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Minutes to Midnight
October 23, 2009
There’s something about Trent Parke‘s photography that reminds me of David Lynch’s movies, particularly Inland Empire. I think it’s his use of unusual lighting. It gives his photos that sense of normalcy gone terribly, terribly twisted that I see throughout Lynch’s work. Parke’s pictures are wonderfully thought-provoking. I love how he manages to evoke this sense of motion and dreaminess, just through his use of lighting, until the subject becomes almost abstracted.
I’m not going to quote this directly, as I can’t find the source, but I could swear that I saw an interview with Parke where he talked about his inspiration for photographing his work, Minutes to Midnight, coming from a quote about the Australian lack of innocence, and wanting to document the process through which it happened. In order to do this, he took a roadtrip around Australia with his wife (photographer Narelle Autio) for two years, and just took pictures of everything he saw. The results are stunning.
The pictures I’ve put up come from his series “Minutes to Midnight”, “Dream/Life” and “The Seventh Wave”. He started shooting in colour, but I found I preferred the moodiness of his black-and-white photos.
The Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze
October 14, 2009
When I was little, one of my chief ambitions in life was to run off and join the circus, to then undergo apprenticeship with a series of stern but kindly circus folk and wind up demonstrating my skillz to the cheering multitudes while clad in a tastefully spangled unitard. Other aspirations included being a Boxcar Child, being Amelia Earhart, inventing a time machine and being a plucky heroine in one of Heinlein’s juveniles. Clearly my grasp on reality was spot-on.
Anyway, the height of coolness to me was to be one of the trapeze artist. I’m always so impressed by people who can get over fears of heights and gravity and play in the air. For that reason, I’m completely impressed by Elsa Birge. She’s a French trapeze artist/contortionist, who has worked in the circus for years, and who runs a school to teach others trapeze skills, often training them in her own living room. (How crazy/awesome is it to have a trapeze in your living room?! !!!) Her parents sent her to circus school when she was small to get rid of her excess energy, and she hasn’t looked back since.
Photographs by Gerard Harten.
On top of being generally awesome by simple virtue of being a trapeze artist, she also performed with French Gypsy band La Caravane Passe in their show “Le Vrai Faux Mariage”, which is a concert/ stage show designed along the lines of a Gypsy wedding. The result is awesome music and a very cool show, which I’m dying to see. I’ve embedded a clip from the show below, and you should really check out their site if you’re into any of the gyspy music that has been making the rounds of late. I love it.
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