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Monroe’s Last Nudes Lohan Redux
MONROE’S LAST NUDES LOHAN REDUX
Looking at the New York Magazine Nude Lohan prints, as an artist who’s taken many reference photoshoots, I felt the pictures only told half the story. I needed to see how they compared to the original Marilyn shots and which Marilyn photos were used for reference. Just seeing the Lohan photos didn’t give me any perspective.
I painstakingly (it was fun) went through the original Bert Stern / Monroe “the last sitting” shot-by-shot and figured out (to my best guess) which pictures he referenced for the Lohan shoot. (see below)
How Lohan was able to take poses and expressions that are fun and alive in 1962 and make them look so dull and contrived in 2008 is amazing. Probably the one time when a little champagne tumble off the sobriety wagon would have been a good career move. . .
READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP W / ALL PHOTOS AND REFERENCE SHOTS
(NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
Lindsay Lohan Nude, Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe, New York Magazine, The Last Sitting, Hotel Bel-Air, Lindsay Lohan, Layout, Comparison, Side-by-Side, (NOT SAFE FOR WORK), Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
Made In Heaven is a British denim brand from the 1970s that has been given a new lease of life for the 21st century. These shots from the S/S 2008 ad campaign include some great looking pastel skinny jeans and high-waisted flares flares which come in pale blue and white.
125 Magazine states that they are the only magazine in the world, which acts as a completely unbiased photography gallery, open to both emerging and established artists, and making affordable art available to all. That’s just awesome. Use the search field at the bottom left corner to search what you’re looking for (in this case, “sex” or “art”!).
via Wooster
Photo above by CRS8
Street Anatomy, a blog on medicine, art, and design. Terrific gallery of anatomically themed street art. check it out here.
LINK quote [I create or I manipulation with photos of girls with snakes and other animals. It is different, it leaves the usual fashion of monotony, is a type of art, it mixes of bizare, Sensuality, fetish, magic, cult or old Sect].
(via Fetish Design)
Artworks by tetheredto:
It is not common when I encounter an artist and think, “Okay, I clearly don’t understand all the good things going on here, but there is more talent in front of me than I have the ability to comprehend.”
(Click on images to view them individually.)
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Racy fashion photography by Christian Blanchard
Agatha Moon: Italian Fetish Model
LINK quote [While attending my very first fetish party in London, I realized how attracted I was by the "choreography" of situations. I regret not having snaped a lot of fascinating details, like a thin cord winding slender wrists and the signs left on them. I find so amusing wearing latex and leather dresses, breath-taking corsets and high heeled shoes! It's like acting, playing a rôle. I can feel emerging a sort of alter ego, usually hidden behind the everyday natural make-up or under my jeans. I can explore my darkly glamorous persona. I love posing in fetish garments, acting out fantasies in front of the camera, recreating myself].
(via sex (not sex))
2 needles
Known only as “2 needles”, he/she runs Tlazol.teotnia. This person can draw. Insane artwork, totally crazy. I love it. (tip: use the pulldown menu at the top of the page to view all of the work).
Beauty and Sin
Beauty and Sin started as an art project to explore the line line between art and obscenity. It is now an online community for people to upload and share nude photos of themselves.
See also in Photography, Web-based
Beautiful work by Canadian photographer Barbara Cole.
Labels: fashion, photomanipulation - via Art Nudes
Geoffroy de Boismenu Photography
LINK quote [Edgy work by French photographer Geoffroy de Boismenu]. Be sure to check the A History of Sex section.
(via Sex in Art)
Beautiful dreamy paintings by Stockholm based artist Naomi Johanna Nowak. Fantastic style and great use of colour. check out her portfolio and she also writes a blog.
Long time reader Janez Vlachy will be exhibiting his work in Montreal this month. If you’re fortunate enough to be in that fair city I encourage you to check it out. Here are the details:
Show runs September 11th to September 29th 2007
GalerieGora
contemporaryartcontemporain
279 Sherbrooke West, #205
Montreal, CANADA . H2X 1Y2
tel: (514) 879.9694 . fax: (514) 879.0164
art@gallerygora.com
Craig Cowling is Naughty James and we think his photographs are cheeky and stylish!
Found on Myspace @ BlueFlip Art
Amazing Brazilian artist Will Murai has recently teamed up with BlueFlip Art and we’re now proudly offering high-quality, giclee prints of seventeen of his different works. Will has a gorgeous, lush style that he uses to depict sultry, playful and downright humorous scenes. Click any thumbnail below for a closer look!
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Click Chic: The Fine Art of Fashion Photography,” an exhibition documenting the vitality of fashion photography as a vehicle for creative expression, formal experimentation and social commentary.
On view will be nearly 50 images by six emerging and established photographers based in New York who have created distinctive bodies of work in fashion: Roderick Angle, Guy Aroch, Maki Kawakita, Ryan Michael Kelly, Chiun-Kai Shih and Sarah Silver. With cultural reference points as rich and varied as Art Nouveau, Buddhism, film noir, modern dance and Japanese Kabuki theater, they have made fashion photography their primary practice, applying a conceptual and formal rigor traditionally associated with fine art.
“Because they’re originally conceived and created to appear in magazines and advertisements, fashion photographs are often considered disposable,” said exhibition curator Dan Halm. “I’m hoping to change that by highlighting some exceptional images that hold their own as works of art.”
Fashion has been fertile ground for innovative photography for decades, but the lines between fine art and commercial photography have blurred in recent years as more and more photographers have found an outlet in both realms. The 1990s saw a marked increase in advertising and editorial work by art-world mainstays like Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin. “Click Chic” considers a group of formally-trained photographers who came of age since the 1990s and have worked mainly on commission for clients in the fashion industry.
The exhibition includes a selection of never-before-seen photographs created as personal work as well as images that have appeared in editorial features and advertising campaigns around the world. Both bodies of work engage the medium’s history and reflect contemporary developments in landscape, portraiture and still life photography.
I just stumbled onto this amazing illustrator, especially love the fashion illustration on her website - Marguerite Sauvage
Classy ultra fashion photographs by German born Rasmus Mogensen
Elegance and perversity as one. Ageing pin-ups, slain royals, debauched parties and fetishised designer labels Erwin Olaf brings his incisive wit and vision to create a satirical portrait of our contemporary consumer society. Visually sophisticated and conceptually provocative be sure to check his work out
And so the barriers just keep disintegrating. Here’s a couple of creative videos: The first is for fashion label Shai at Sexpacking. Amazingly they hired porn stars (Oksana d’Harcourt, Sébastien Barrio, Titoff, Gamal Simon, Sophie Moon and Zafira) to sell their clothes through an interactive site with videos you can download. As far as “porn” goes, it’s VERY well shot!!! The 2nd features super porn star Jenna Jameson promoting Adidas Adicolor
Grafuck is a book of erotic art created by a diverse group of international artists. “It started out with a curiosity for what might happen if artists and designers were asked to create work around a subject that many still find taboo. Plus, making naughty pictures is fun”. Right up our alley!!! Be sure to check the grafuck site for more info.
Original Post: Kate Moss Sculpture
The UK model Kate Moss will soon be a 3 meter high bronze sculpture in a contorted yoga pose. Marc Quinn will enlarge his previous version of Kate Moss, which was done last year, and will show it at the “Beyond Limits” sale at Chatsworth House in September.
Kate Moss must be starting to feel like she is a life drawing model, rather than the internationally famous fashion model that she really is. Notable artists that have turned Moss into art include Lucian Freud, Banksy, Marc Quinn, Alex Katz, and Julian Opie.
Marc Quinn says “There must be something about her that has clicked with the collective unconscious to make her so ubiquitous, so spirit-of-the-age.” Vogue
I also used a Kate Moss photo to test a morphing website here.
>> Sculpture, Fa
Photo by Katarzyna Widmanska
If you aren’t familiar with ALTphotos.com, you should be. The quality level is consistently exceptional. Do yourself a favour and visit this great site.
ALTphotos Photography Community :: For Creative Photography
Labels: group exhibits
Very sexy photography by Mateusz Nasternak
Aleksey Kozlov & Marina Khlebnikova
Russian couple Aleksey Kozlov (photographer) and Marina Khlebnikova (artist) work together on “photopaintings” - this includes techniques of processing negative film solutions using acids and dyes.
Touch Too Much by Stolen - (click image for site)
LINK quote [While we commend Diaz Arri and/or the staff at Barcelona's Agencia SIC for reminding us that glamour nude photography is about more things than just pert pairs of breasts or juicy asses stuffed into frilly lace panties—like proper oral hygiene—we needs must take issue with the fact that the exotic-looking model shown brushing her teeth in several photographs in the "Narrow Nudes" section (whatever that means) is doing so while kneeling at a bidet: all that crouching on a hard tile floor in front of a porcelain device ordinarily reserved for washing other parts can be murder on the knees].
(via Fleshbot)
Brilliant imagery by Brazilian illustrator Carlo Giovani. check out his Flickr site too.
Check out 21 year old Minneapolis photographer Julian Murray
Artist Statement :
My photography is more about the people than anything. Without the people, there are no photos. Over the past year I have been fortunate to meet and learn about some of the most real people possible. I’ve shot in multi-million dollar homes as well as the poorest project houses around. I learn from every experience. A thank you to those who I have met along the way, and for those I am yet to meet, I look forward to it.
Blessings
Check out Herr Butcha’s website - truly talented and has such great depth as a photographer/artist.
Alright so you already know that we absolutely love Ricki Kasso’s photography (Tokyo Undressed) but we also love his cute artwork at Behind the Lines
Excellent digital manipulation, clever visual puns, and strong compositions by Romanian photographer Narcis Virgiliu
Labels: figure study, photomanipulation
Metro - Sounds of Paris, Stockholm 2006
Photo: Carl Johan Rehbinder WEBSITE
Golden Lady, Långholmen, Stockholm 2006
Metro - Sounds of Paris, Stockholm 2006
Photo: Carl Johan Rehbinder 
Party for F.O.O.L.S. - Sep 10, 2005
Photo: Carl Johan Rehbinder
Fashion nudes by Thomas Schweizer. Some images’ such as the one I selected are quite subtle, but most are big and splashy, and seem influenced by Helmut Newton and/or David LaChapelle