If you've wondered what has David LaChapelle been up to, now that he's turned his back to the lure of big budget magazines, I've got the answer for you. In Earth Laughs In Flowers, an exhibition of 10 large scale photographs, LaChapelle has gone back to basics and looked to traditional Baroque still nature for inspiration. ...
Not of Bosch's earthly kind! Instead, something much tamer to mark the arrival of Spring, with all its inherent greenery and flowery bursts. Shot in 2006 by Steven Meisel for Vogue US, this editorial is the kind of stuff one would like all of Spring's gardens to be like!
John Brophy is an American artist living in the Seattle who spent a lot of time traveling when he was a kid. His father worked in aerospace and his family moved a lot while he was growing up, so he spent a large part of his life living in countries such as Japan, Greece, and ...
Selva Obscura is a collective exhibition in Milan, which presents 19 artists who exploit very different medias and languages, but are joined together by the central importance of Nature as a mother. Forests provide a reservoir of oxygen, water and life, but are quickly disappearing. In the last 100 years, many forests of the planet ...
Hauter space glamour shot by digital manipulation usual suspect Nick Knight. I remember seeing this W magazine editorial recently and instantly thinking of how clearly influenced by Lillian Bassman it was. Wanting to explore the future fantastic visions of SS12, it looked to the timeless language of elegance as seen not only in Lillian Bassman's work, but ...
Or, in its original title, Kronung des chic (as it was for Vogue Germany). One of the editorials Lillian Bassman shot during her comeback in the 90s, it focused on Philip Treacy's quaint millinery creations, the perfect partner for Lillian to express her unique vision of glamour.
2012 has not been a kind year to the creative kind so far. Just a couple of weeks after Eiko Ishioka's death, the grim reaper struck again, this time taking with him, another great lady of the creative community, photographer Lillian Bassman. Truth be said, she was 94, so it isn't as if it was ...