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21 Tuesday May 2013
21 Tuesday May 2013
23 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Icon, Fashion Photography, Inspiration, Nostalgia, Photography, Style, Vintage
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1920s, 1932s, Fashion Photography, photography, portraits, showbiz, Vaudeville, ziegfeld Follies
Alfred Cheney Johnston’s portriaits of beauties of the early 20th century are nothing short of magic. In 1917 Johnston was hired to be the photographer for the Ziegfeld Follies and remained until the Depression struck. Meanwhile, Johnston also contracted small side jobs, photographing portraits for aspiring actresses and other ladies of society. Below are some his photographs from that era.
Johnston’s photography is not all this tame, though… his behind the scenes photo shoots of Ziegfeld’s Vaudevillesque show girls went undiscovered until his death in 1971. The full-frontal but mesmerizingly artistic portraiture would have been too risque for public appreciation at that time, so the suspicion is that these nude prints were for his own private collection. Quel Scandale!
30 Monday Jul 2012
Posted Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Icon, Fashion Photography, Fashion Trends, Inspiration, Photography, Spring/Summer, Style, Summer
inI must interrupt my summer-long hiatus from posting to bring you this important message. As if the sky opened up and God came down and kissed me on the lips, so I felt when happening upon this spread flipping through the pages of Elle in the line at the grocery store. Looking around for someone to share in my complete surprise and excitement, hoping by happenstance to see my college roommate (who shared in the same obsession as I,) or my cousin (who, like I, strives to achieve a certain level of Audrey Horne-ness on a daily basis,) I was quickly disappointed to find myself surrounded by old new york tourists who had sent the only clerk in the store to fetch 17 cases of iced tea Snapple from an undisclosed location. Behind me, an irresponsible mother who was, by my standard, attempting to rid the store of any item containing high levels of saturated fat by feeding them to her husband and children. Mommy had bought out BOTH Entiments & Little Debby departments of the store.
No one was interested in what magic lie in the pages of July’s Elle magazine, clutched in my little mitts. The Black Lodge- the mystical place of Agent Dale Coopers dreams, set the backdrop for Prada, Celine, Balenciaga, Giorgio Armani, Adrienne Landau and so on. I plopped the Elle into my shopping basket, checked out, ran home, pulled out my Definitive Gold Edition Twin Peaks Box set, and for about 3 hours was dead to the world.
03 Thursday May 2012
30 Monday Apr 2012
Posted Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Photography, Fashion Trends, Inspiration, Photography, Style, Summer, Travel
in15 Sunday Apr 2012
Posted Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Photography, Fashion Trends, Inspiration, Photography, Style, Summer
in10 Tuesday Apr 2012
06 Friday Apr 2012
Posted Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Photography, Fashion Trends, Inspiration, Photography, Style
in05 Thursday Apr 2012
Posted Contemporary Art, Fashion, Photography, Style
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Alex Prager, alfred hitchcock, Contemporary Art, david lynch, photography, the birds, twilight zone