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talking about geishas, i don’t really understand what this one is about but it’s visually quite interesting. if you want to give a try at getting what it is, it’s here by pp.
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ogawa kazuma – geisha
we already made a post about the wonderful hand painted over photographs pictures of flowers from ogawa kazuma, but there is also the geisha series. In 1891, he was charged with taking 100 pictures of Tokyo’s most attractive geisha, and that is really nice as well. by pp.
benoit pailley – morpholight
our friend photographer benoit pailley presents his latest work “morpholight” in soho, it’s beautiful, minimal and somehow very strange. it feels very fresh to use photography as art in this fashion. between james turrel and close to fashion still life photography without product. love it! by pp.
talking about books and sex: i’ll take john waters advice
peekaboo! by german photographer andre gelpke. beautiful stuff. good luck finding a copy under $200. if you do see a re-edition (hint hint M. taschen) please post on comments. and once again, viva la hair. to catch up on my ref to john waters click here. by dd
reclining nude: carlo mollino
great color from the architect of photography. by xy
rolls royce: by Hedi Slimane
slimane turns his camera from the rocksters to the rollsters! still yum! by dd
taryn simon – a threat of uncovered worlds
detective taryn simon uses photography to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. i’m sure her underlying talent is as a smooth talker, as she has executed some of the most interesting and dryly humorous explorations in modern imagery. somehow this contemporary art princess was a threat so great walt disney world couldn’t even indulge her. by kl
cy twombly by francois halard
photographer francois halard photographed cy twombly few times in the last 20 years, there is a very nice selection of those pictures in halard’s latest book “visite privee” by pp.
portraits de villes
portraits de villes is a serie of books edited by be-pole studio, every city is shot by a great photographer. love the idea and the simple and honest look of the collection. check it if you find them. i’m wondering who i would have chosen to photographed my favorite cities if i had the choice to commission my own collection… hmmmm.. by pp.
robert polidori – cold war era bunkers
talking about nice house photographed by great photographer, there is this not so well known story by robert polidori on the cold war shelters that some crazy americans built somewhere in the midwest in case of a nuclear attack! it was shot around 2003 i think but never got the attention deserved. it’s so over the top and ridiculous that you don’t know if you should smile or cry. can’t find much more of this story on the net but i have a much more extended crop somewhere, if anybody’s interested i will make the effort…
“The underground complex of Girard B. Henderson was completed in 1978, five years before his death. The elaborate bomb shelter is located beneath a typical two-story suburban house in Las Vegas. Although the house was later sold, the shelter is still intact and is occasionally rented out for corporate events and parties.“
by pp
la maison de verre – francois halard
i was really glad last week when i saw thames&hudson re-released the book on the glass house by photographer francois halard. seeing the pile reducing seriously everytime i was passing by mcnally jackson (which by the way is the best place to get books and mag in the city) made me wonder if the fact that the new york times made a great article about the house recently was the reason or just general interest. now i’m crossing my fingers that they will also re-release the book on the villa malaparte by mr halard as well… by pp.
bob richardson: smoking kills, unless you’re really pretty of course
handsome boy promoting philip morris to a girl with stars in her eyes. photographed by terry richardsons daddy who was a permanent fixture at my old school. by dd
