Just came across this in todays Telegraph:
Camen Dell’Orefice is showing her body of work as a model over the last decades at the London College of Fashion.
She’s such a great character and one of the most standout models i ever met and had the pleasure working with in Paris.
I can’t wait to see this and if you’re in London i highly recommend this treasure of fashion photography history.
Carmen: A Life In Fashion’ runs from Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, John Princes Street, London W1; fashion.arts.ac.uk
If you find yourself in LA these weeks spend an hour at Fahey/Klein Gallery and see the Sarah Moon show (LaBrea and 1st ave.), till May 21, 2011.
Just exquisit photography that just seemes to me like it happened yesterday.
True genius is timeless and never goes away, it just gets neglected by the mainstream.
And the best part, you can actually own these pieces, beats the auction market.
Always loved his work, straight forward that reminds me of August Sander great look at the Germans early 1930ties, just with african charm. The eye of Bamako is a great show in a great space, up till April 9, 2011 , so if you’re in LA you have to swing by
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The Luminescent ocean view, the scenes on the beaches. Interesting how it can all remain in the vision of the sea in photographs. I felt very connected to the light and decisive play of light, shadow and clouds that create such a great pallet of colors. One can nearly smell the ocean and salt in the moist summer air.
Still up for a couple of days at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, just around the corner of our new favorite, the Brown’s Hotel on Albermarle.
Shot with my little iPhone and the Hipstamatic app.
Great snapshot setup, back to the 50/60/70′ties i say.
Messed up colors, burned edges and nothing is controlable…
Love it
Living in Manhattan makes you forget how unique this city really is.
We did a fun excursion (with our niece) to Coney Island yesterday.
The textures, people, color, it just pops and works in it’s slight dysfunction.
I really recommend the trip to anyone. And if you go early, there’s even street parking.
And bring a camera…
Flying back from Germany today we were routed north of the volcano. Amazing, what looks like a little dust on the horizon changes travel as we know it (for now). After having a fun couple of days in Frankfurt i’m happy to be back in NY
I just got the book a couple of days ago and it’s a brilliant little gem. But i really urge everyone interested in the best photographical portrait work ever done, to see the show in person.
It’s up at the National Portrait Gallery in London until June 6, 2010 and then at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome from July 1st through September 19th, 2010.
Another year, another geek show. Few interesting tech things to see, Canon showed of the new 1D Mark IV cameras, great for movement, dance, jumps etc. With this, I don’t see shooting the RED camera ever again, 1o frames per second, 16MB RAW files. That’s great for a full page and beyond and much less footage (and tech/crew setup) to work with. NICE…
Now, if I actually get my new Canon S90 p&s camera and the printer that Epson promised last month and still has not delivered.
But the better part was a little history talk about The White House Photographers.
Led by Pete Souza, David Hume Kennerly and Robert McNeely it was a nice event that I wished would have been taped for the public with great personal insights and little quips about the daily life in 1600 Penn. Ave. and the obvious history witnessed by these great guys.
But I have to admit that James Nachtwey presentation on Saturday was beyond words.
The world’s misery that he witnessed and brought to the audience over the last 25+ years is just staggering. Probably the best photography done in this field and gorgeously printed by Jim Megargee, if it wouldn’t be for the just excruciating subject matter I could start hanging them in our house. Afterwards it was a standing ovation and had everybody reevaluate their life.
I do want to point to his tuberculosis initiative that he started with the help of TED in 2008.
Tuberculosis is shaping up to the most threatening disease making its comeback. Once though extinct it’s now multi/extremely drug resistant and taking a huge toll on populations across the planet and in conjunction with HIV is eradicating entire generations.
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While shooting my new series of ocean views.
So beginning of the summer i started shooting the ocean at sunset/night/before dawn. The RAW images look just glorious, just have to find time to edit all of this and make it into a show…coming online some day.
Should be a fun couple of days, roaming my old town, love that everyone now is on bikes. Shooting for 2 days just outside the Periph.
Looking forward to take more pics around town…
Back from Japan. I think I get it, all the detailed work, the gizmos, the design restraint, the simple but efficient everything, the stillness of things.
And now whenever I find the time I have to get on those pictures, I love the cherry blossom series form the Royal Gardens in Kyoto…I wish I could spend a couple of days just working with those images and do some prints.
Done with the shoot for Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo.
After roaming the streets I’m really in love with the country and the people. Luckily we get to go to Kyoto for a couple of days. I’m dying to come back.
On the tech side, this was the first shot with the new Canon 5D Mark II. I really start to love the camera, especially for available light and quick run and gun shooting. Besides it’s surprisingly small and weather resistant.
We had a near constant rainy mist all day. The files I saw so far look great and with the Peninsula’s High Speed internet I uploaded the images to the photoshelter servers in no time at all, sometimes even between shoots.
I’ve seen the future…Now I have to work on the video aspect of the little Canon, but that’s another day.
It’s the middle of the night in Tokyo, Berlin was a blast, great people, snow in February and the whole city very pretty.
Annie’s exhibit was a total blowout, 4000 over opening weekend, a record, Saturday morning she’s on all the Berlin Newspapers on the front cover (and I worked out with Depeche Mode’s front man Dave Gahan in our Hotel gym).
Photographically I find Berlin hard to grasp, everything is far apart and I guess growing up in Germany I’m not very impressed but regular and grey scenery.
But then again I should one day revisit the ordinary Germanic, grey and orderly ways…Note to self-read: some Philosophy classics again.
Arrival in Tokyo, coming from Frankfurt.
Had my Frankfurter Würstchen and Apfelwein, finally at the airport on Sunday, all happy.
The Peninsula Hotel sends us a BMW 7 series and a Rolls Royce for the Airport pick up. We obviously all crammed into the Phantom with Annie riding shotgun and had the most unusual welcome to Japan in the quietest car I ever been in.
A nice way to travel and totally relaxing even in the constant rain.
It was like a sold out Rock show, traffic came to standstill, and after the place opened its doors to the public you couldn’t even walk or exit the building. But I finally met Veruschka, who moved from NY to Berlin and loves it. And the space, the old Postfuhramt, is just great. This is now the 3rd hanging of the show that we’ve seen (After Brooklyn and Paris) and they do feel very different. (Still open through May 24.)
And talking about Rock concerts, the Depeche Mode stayed in our Hotel (de Rome, go figure) and I worked out with David Gahan in the early morning…
And I got to stop at my favorite shop: “Manufactum“. I nearly forgot about those guys, but when we travelled to Berlin in 2007 to photograph Knut, the polar bear, for the Vanity Fair cover, we stopped by a coffee shop around the corner and ever since I was itching to go back. They also have a great website and a lot of their products are available for shipment to the US as well. Love it…
Finally in Washington, DC, saw the Richard Avedon exhibit. It really puts a lot of things into perspective, especially some current photography that are so overly praised, but are just mediocre.
People tend to forget the true greatness and quality photography can and should have.
Makes me want to shoot with 8×10 and/or on white again.
What a great day, i’ve never seen DC so crowded and never seen so many port-a-pottys. This has to be turning point in world history.
I liked my perspective of being in the middle of it all, and my little tilt shift version of events. It’s so interesting how every event is now geared toward TV coverage and people are just snapping pictures of everything.
Sometimes people forget to actually be in the moment, event planers forget to cater to the actual present audience. But then again the images will live on and the memory fades.
Something that was most visible at the Neighborhood Ball, half the room was a staged event, with the crowd being part of the live telecast, the other a dark area with mediocre food and 3 bars that felt straight out of a prom movie, with paper tickets et all.
But we got to see POTUS & FLOTUS doing the very “First Dance” to Beyonce (?, Really no Etta available?) singing “At Last”…
so here we go: on the way to the Hamptons to shoot my friends daughter who just got accepted to Click models NY. Its going to be a fun weekend.
Disney got the Behind the scenes for the upcoming Ariel Ad shot by Annie L. That was a fun and full day at the Universal Studio lot, between Western Town and the tours going by…
And Tasha’s next music production goes into the final remix on Monday. We’ll reviewing artwork next week but we exchanged first impressions on the shoot this week.