misslikey (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If this year we are having the great comeback of 80s, there’s a person that we should reminisce of, since she was true symbol of early years of decade. Gia Marie Carangi was often nicknamed as America’s first supermodel and along with Janice Dickenson and Beverly Johnson (Johnson was first black model to appear on cover of Vogue) had pave the way for glamazons in fashion modeling. Gia,...
Style Child (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The death (apparent suicide) of Daul Kim really makes me sad, which, of course, is an understatement. Suicide of such a young, potential-filled woman is truly terrifying and tragic. The worst part is that on her blog, I like to Fork Myself, at one point she sounded really depressed but recently she had sounded very happy. (I read her blog). Which is why I'm so sad. I didn't write anything when Yves...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This morning I was sad to read (via David Hepworth's obituary in The Word) that the photographer Irving Penn had passed away. He was one of the most gifted photographic artists of our times. When I first discovered his work a few years ago I became almost obsessed by it. When one looks at a Penn image it is pretty much impossible to conceive of making a single alteration to improve it; such was his...
Eating In Translation (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Slideluck Potshow Friday, November 13, 7:00-11:00 The Aperture Foundation, 547 W. 27th St. (Tenth-Eleventh Aves.), 4th floor www.SlideluckPotshow.com This nonprofit "aims to bring people together around food and art, and to give people an interesting, engaging, and fun platform for sharing art with their community." Adds the organizer: "Don't bring...
Worn Fashion Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I haven’t been familiar with Sam Haskins’ photography for long, but something about his black and white work has captivated me. His ability to capture his models as if they were actors in a play is truly astounding, making for some fascinating photographs. Drawing inspiration from the late Irving Penn, Haskins’ noted use of [...]
Grazia Fashion (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This photo (above) cured our Monday morning blues in a nanosecond. Je-he-dward forever! Gaga tells all about Gossip Girl! [PerezHilton] And Gossip Girl’s stylist reveals all! [Stylelist] YUM Lily Cole’s brilliant salad recipes... [Telegraph] The Hollywood Jewel Thieves (part 3) We in no way condone burglary, but if you’re going to do...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Photo by Irving Penn, 1970 Claude Lévi - Strauss 1908 – 2009 “Writing is a strange invention. One might suppose that its emergence could not fail to bring about profound changes in the conditions of human existence, and that these transformations must of necessity be of an intellectual nature…. Yet nothing we know about writing and the part it has played in man’s evolution...
I Hate The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
If you find yourself with time to read the Nov 19th issue of the New York Review of Books cover to cover, go for it! More 1930s realism; Jonathan Raban on 2 Dorothea Lange bios. Critical in the right ways. And a bit on Irving Penn. Smart enough. The Gaia Hypothesis. Weird, brilliant and very British. The Glorious Revolution. Not so British, after all. American education: history, theory and practice....
Dream Sequins (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
One last guest post-- and it's a good one: a primer on fashion photography by the lovely Monica of Ciao, Chessa ! Hope you are enjoying your Friday!! I Love Fashion... Photography! Text by Monica of Ciao, Chessa! Ciao, Dream Sequins readers! I'm Monica Shulman , aka Chessa, the photographer and art lover behind Ciao, Chessa! I am thrilled to be a guest blogger on this fabulous and fashionable space....
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A new exhibition celebrates Neil Winokur's early portraits of his little known art world friends-including Cindy Sherman, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, and Nan Goldin. VIEW OUR GALLERY In the 1980s, Neil Winokur would invite his friends over in the early...
daily imprint (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
One of the other exhibitions I visited this weekend was at Blender Gallery , also in Sydney's Paddington. On display were the photographs of London photographer Janette Beckman . The work is mainly from early in her career when she captured the rising music stars of the late 70s and early 80s. Although stars is probably the wrong word because the portraits capture a raw quality that seems to be lost...
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The New Yorker carried an elegant tribute to Irving Penn by Adam Gopnik. In the postwar years, America was unduly blessed by its art dealers, who offered an open door to the avant-garde, and by its fashion magazines, in which a handful of photographers managed to turn fashion pictures into another kind of high art. Chief [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010. Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died earlier this month, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn's seven-decade career ranging from his early portraits for Vogue in 1944 to some of his last work. The exhibition is a survey of Penn's...
Eye Level (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
A Ruth Duckworth sculpture adorns my bookcase. Earlier this week I was saddened to read in an email that sculptor Ruth Duckworth had passed away at ninety on October 18th. We are frequently confronted with obituaries of artists that signify...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Grace Coddington: "Most of Ralph Lauren's models are not super skinny: this is an isolated situation and I think that it's unfair that he's getting bad publicity for it"
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