Tuesday, 31 May 2011

TALL STORIES

Turn to the left... Turn to the right...
The narrative in a great photograph is somewhere beneath the surface tones and shapes,  a song with it’s own story to sing. And the story you see, will not be mine…

Show and Tell - Paolo Roversi pointing the camera at Guinevere van Seenus
American Apparel, Agent Provocateur and Armani.

Temptation to behave is terrible.
Bertolt Brecht

Olga Sherer shot by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood
Lara Stone shot by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott for Interview – March 2010

The art of invention
Is born in the hands of angels
And it falls from their palms as stars... Glittering... dust.
The Ballad of the Babies – Dumb Baby Sounds 2011


Norman Parkinson for Vogue 1959.
After Kees Van Dongen’s Le Coquelicot 1919.

Vogue Nippon like a red hat too...
Eniko Mihalik wears it... Sebastian Faena shoots it...


Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop…
Ansel Adams
Prada-1997 - Glen Luchford


If in doubt…wear black.
Dumb Baby Sounds 2011

Amber Valletta, cigarette and chopsticks for Vogue Italia Oct 2000
Photography by Steven Meisel - fashion editor Lori Goldstein.

Commercial Break

IN YOUR HEART by Dumb Baby Sounds

Guinevere van Seenus by Javier Vallhonrat
From the Private Dancer Series - Vogue April 2010


The fashion of this world passeth away.
Bible, 1 Corinthians

Mirander Kerr by Greg Kadel

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard Avedon
Guy Bourdin

What you rebellin' against Johnny?

What you got!
Marlon Brando – The Wild One

Sara Stockbridge by Paul Spencer

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood


As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel

Peter Lindbergh for Vogue China


Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
Bill Blass

Strike a Pose
Madonna for Louis Vuitton by Steven Meisel

If in doubt… wear red.
Bill Blass
Heidi – Ellen Von Unwerth

I never cared for fashion much... 
Amusing little seams and witty little pleats...
It was the girls I liked...
David Bailey

Marie Helvin by Bailey

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Naomi Campbell by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
For Interview October 2010

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Image by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello


The camera can photograph thought.
Dirk Bogarde
Photograph by Toni Frissell

Here are faces I have found memorable. If they are not all as happy as kings, it is because in this imperfect world and these hazardous times, the camera’s eye, like the eyes of a child, often sees true. Toni Frissell (Antoinette Frissell Bacon)


Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson