Helmut Newton's SUMO Limited edition of 10,000 copies worldwide, each signed and numbered by Helmut Newton. Includes a bookholder designed by Philippe Starck. SUMO is a titanic book in every respect: it is a tribute to the twentieth century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. Measuring 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27.5 inches) and weighing approx. 30 kg (66 lb.), the book contains 464 pages, breaking any previous record. SUMO, edited by June Newton, features a wide selection of over 400 pictures, most of which are published for the first time, covering every aspect of Newton’s outstanding career in photography: from his stunning fashion photographs, which pointed the way for generations of photographers, to his nudes and celebrity portaits. In defiance of the much-loved Japanese discipline that inspired the title of this colossal work, there is no need for it’s proud owner to wrestle with SUMO.
Vivienne Mok Photography Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture. Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. The perimeter of the structure is pushed out into the forest around it, curving in and out to create views as well as a sense of intimacy with the coniferous and deciduous tree cover. The wood and metal detailing is incredible in its variety and customization – each piece designed to fit a particular form and function. Wood and stone carry naturalistic themes from the outside in and even the metal looks naturally rusted. The curved, organic mix of materials continues to the interior of this elevated forest home – a conceptual play on the fluidity and complexity of music (the source of inspiration for the architect and client in the design).
Interview with Raymond Depardon Manhattan, NYC, 1980, from Manhattan Out Direct To Film – Interview with Artist Raymond Depardon By Miriam Rosen, Originally Published, Artforum, February 2001 Raymond Depardon talks like he photographs, like he films, like he writes: profusely. And the torrent of words is intensified by the singular sound of his voice, always slightly hoarse, out of breath, and devoid of Parisian preciosity. Difficult to translate into print much less into English (imagine a French version of Peter Falk), but eminently worth signaling by way of introduction. Photo reporter at the age of eighteen for a leading French news agency, cofounder of the pathbreaking Gamma photo agency in 1967, member of the venerable Magnum agency since 1979, the precocious foreign correspondent and sometime paparazzo turned photographer-filmmaker now has to his credit some twenty-five books (photos and texts) and thirty-five films (long and short, documentary and fiction), not to mention commercials and public service ads.
Nature's Best Photography: The view from inside a Hawaiian wave By Robert Hood I’ve seen some underwater movie footage of similar situations, but this is one of the first times I’ve seen this successfully captured as a still image. Clark Little / Nature's Best Photography Matching artistic composition with dramatic force, the lip of a wave pushes toward the photographer and creates a large, hollow air pocket called the “tube,” seen running the length of the photo parallel to the sand bottom. Photographer Clark Little said:“A half-second after this shot was made; the wave hit me straight on, knocking the camera out of my hand and pulling me into the spinning mass of air and water. Photographic information: Camera: Nikon D3 in a custom underwater housing; 10.5mm fisheye lens; 1/1000 sec at ƒ/8; ISO 200; hand-held. Related links:
Helmut Newton Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."[1] Early life[edit] Plaque of his birthhouse in Schöneberg, Berlin. The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles; he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938, which finally compelled the family to leave Germany. Life in Australia[edit] London 1950s[edit] Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. Paris 1960s[edit] Newton settled in Paris in 1961 and continued work as a fashion photographer.
MARC VAN DALEN Less is the New More: Making the Most of Small Spaces Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot. This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. This one looks a bit clinical, but has two single beds plus a pull-out double bed in between. None of this stuff is cheap, nor, as far as I can tell is it available in North America, but there are ideas here that demonstrate how people can share a space and still get a little privacy, a good place to work and a lot of storage in a very small envelope. Like this?
Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I I give Cindy Sherman the once-over. Then the twice- and thrice-over. I know I'm staring more than is right but I can't help myself. I'm looking for clues. Sherman is one of the world's leading artists – for 30 years, she has starred in all her photographs – and yet the more we see of her, the less recognisable she is. She's a Hitchcock heroine, a busty Monroe, an abuse victim, a terrified centrefold, a corpse, a Caravaggio, a Botticelli, a mutilated hermaphrodite sex doll, a man in a balaclava, a surgically-enhanced Hamptons type, a cowgirl, a desperate clown, and we've barely started. In front of me is an elegant woman with long, blond hair and soft features. Sherman emerged fully formed on the New York art scene in the early 1980s with a series of untitled film stills. We meet at Sprüth Magers, a tiny gallery in central London that is holding an exhibition of her new work. She smiles, and says it was always that way. Nobody in the family thought her dressing up was strange.
Fotografia Esses dias ne deparei com uma página que reverenciava a fotografia digital de tal forma que fiquei indignada. Não por ser mentira – a fotografia digital é simplesmente a mais interessante de se usar na maioria das situações hoje principalmente pela rapidez, motivo pelo qual também usamos email ao invés de carta e aviões ao invés de carroças – mas por ser exagerado e inverossímil. Então vamos destrinchar isso: É mais barato porque não tem custo de filme – fotografe o quanto quiser, pois é grátis! Essa ideia, acredito eu, é a mais errada de todas. Computador e acessórios: o nosso darkroom atual, o computador, precisa estar em forma para aguentar a qualidade e quantidade de fotos que as câmeras digitais oferecem. Aplicativos: assim como na fotografia analógica fazer edições (como airbrushing e outros) não era a coisa mais barata do mundo hoje os programas de edição de qualidade como Photoshop e Lightroom custam uma fortuna também. Você pode “arrumar” as fotos depois no computador
Helmut Newton biography Helmut Newton led the ultimate glamorous life. He lived in the Chateau Marmont in the winter months, to keep the cold and gloom at bay, befriending Billy Wilder, Dennis Hopper and Robert Evans. He was married to fellow photographer Alice Springs, quirkily named after a pin was placed in a map. Newton arrived in Paris in a white Porsche, was hired immediately by French Vogue, commissioned by Playboy, had a heart attack at 50, and lived in Monte Carlo. Then in a final fling - or what Karl Lagerfeld poetically described as "his last picture, taken by himself", he crashed his Cadillac on Sunset Boulevard aged 83, on January 23 2004.