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by Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1947.

Julianne Moore as “Famous Works of Art” by Peter Linderbergh

Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele, 
La Grande Odalisque by Ingres,  
Saint Praxidis by Vermeer,  
The Cripple by John Currin, 
Les danseuses by Edgar Degas,  
Madame X by John Singer,  
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, Woman With a Fan by Modigliani,  
Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince, Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt.

Jean Cocteau

 by George Platt Lynes, June 1936.

Cornelius

1839 self-portrait of Robert Cornelius, one of the first photographs of a human to be produced.

Wind

by Ahmetkaraca

Algarve

By Gérard Castello-Lopes, Portugal, 1957.

Rescue at Rabaul

Horace Bristol: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul {1944} 


Found in the December 2002 issue of B&W magazine, in an article about the man who took the picture, Horace Bristol; he was a member of a Navy unit of photographers, and thus ended up being on the plane the gunner was serving on, which was used to rescue people from Rabaul Bay (New Britain island, Papua New Guinea), when this occurred: “...we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

Forgotten Palaces

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By Thomas Jorion - Italy, 2009-2011.

Dovima by Avedon

Dovima foi uma verdadeira super model dos anos 50 quando esse conceito ainda nem sequer existia. Trabalhou muito com o Richard Avedon e com ele fez algumas das fotografias mais iconográficas do séc. xx.



A foto de cima é uma das minhas preferidas de sempre, chama-se ”Dovima with the Elephants” e foi tirada pelo Avedon no Cirque d’hiver em Agosto de 1955.O vestido que ela usa foi o primeiro vestido de noite desenhado para Christian Dior pelo seu novo assistente Yves Saint-Laurent.




Esta outra pertence à mesma sessão fotográfica e na altura também foi publicada na Harper’s Bazaar. No entanto e segundo o próprio Avedon, ao passo que a foto do fato preto foi reproduzida inúmeras vezes, esta só foi publicada uma única vez, porque logo a seguir o negativo desapareceu misteriosamente.

Outras fotos da Dovima pelo Avedon.




Dela ele dizia que era “the last of the great elegant, aristocratic beauties… the most remarkable and unconventional beauty of her time”.