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.
Spring auctions are on these days and the most intriguing piece i saw was the georgeous portrait of Cate Blanchett by Irving Penn, 2007.
Just brilliant and in the usual manner perfectly printed, mounted and signed, just oustanding.
Now i hope it gets the price it deserves, estimate is very fair considering the other IP’s for sale:
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.
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
What a great selection of photographs.
I always loved the Atget view of Paris. I still it believe it exists, those quite moments in a large city and especially in Paris. They make every city magical, otherworldly, quite; an emotion that’s very hard to comunicate. And Atget stands the test of time.
On the other hand the great self build camera and the resulting images that Miroslav Tichy creates, come straight out of his phantasy, well excuted with a handmade edge that seems to be disapperaing very rapidly these days.
Both are at the ICP in NY til May 09, 2010
Again a great collection.
Unfortunately we’ll only ever see it photographed…
And obviously the themes are dark, as his perspective diminished.
I feel sorry for him and the art he so tragically left behind.
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.
Downloaded the new Sade and walking down the street i felt like i should be shooting a music video…
Anyhow, a nice extension of what we already know. Be ready to hear in the studio for the next weeks to come, i love it….
download it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soldier-of-love/id348072711
I always loved that portfolio. It fits right between the Peru studio portraits early in his career and the tent/tribes shoots across the world in “Worlds in a small room”.
I just got back from the show at the Getty center in LA (where admission is free but parking $15, really) and was again impressed by the collection.
The prints had various qualities to them, from fiber based prints to variations in the platinum coatings, but it was a nice treat to see them all lined up for comparison. From the subjects, to the way they carried themselves and their tools, their facial expressions; all very intriguing.
The only disappointing part was that due to the sheer amount of prints some hang a little to high for closer review, but i guess that a nice problem to have with around 250 prints…
And i really enjoyed that the actual print size was not at such a monster scale that are shown i recent years, like this the photograph can be viewed as one whole image and the eye doesn’t have to wander.
The Hampton film festival, what a surprise. I have to go there more often. Besides the panel yesterday, I’m again very impressed with a movie.
“Learning from Light”, which photographer wouldn’t want to see this, is a documentary on the great architect I.M. Pei and the construction of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
Besides the introduction to his creative process and research, the difficulties of the construction itself, it was a fantastic revelation of one of the greatest minds of our time. And I loved his devotion and observation of light, it’s quality; the appreciation of the singularity of sunlight and the usage of simplistic shapes, along with his humor and Great Spirit.
Mr. Pei himself being present for this world premiere topped all of this. What a treat on a Sunday morning…
Now if I could watch this in HD. Somebody has to pick this up for distribution.
And I would really like to photograph him…
We lost a giant.
He, of all the photographers in history, influenced me the most.
His attention to detail, the contrast and the simplification of subjects will always be inspiring.
His work was one of the first that really stood out for me as a teenager when I first got into photography and discovered “Passage” and later “Flowers”.
(And I read all the book on photography in our library; twice)
And today I’m still amazed on the broad subject matter he shot so exquisitely and was always excited finding another Penn photograph in Vogue over the years.
There is a very short list of photographers that I’m a true fan and he is on top of even this group.
This is truly one of the saddest days in the Photography world and words will never be enough.
His series “Petit métiers” shot for Vogue in the 50′s is on display at the Getty Center in LA till January 10, 2010