Photography
The late fashion photographer Lillian Bassman had what legendary shutterbug Richard Avedon called the skill to make “visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things.” Her black-and-white photographs captured more than just beautiful women wearing bustiers and garter belts – she had the...
A Herb Ritts image is unmistakably recognizable. Those of a certain age who aren’t closely familiar with the late photographer’s work will easily remember his most iconic shots: the 1979 portrait of Richard Gere at an auto shop, the 1986 album cover for Madonna’s record “True Blue,” and the 1989 nude supermodel group photograph, “...
After stints in London, Paris, and Melbourne, German-born fashion photographer Helmut Newton returned to the City of Lights in 1961 to work for Paris Vogue, settling in an apartment in the Marais district. He would go on to spend his most pivotal years there, before eventually moving to Los Angeles. Newton’s provocative photography makes...
In the 1960s, fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, his model and muse Peggy Moffitt, and her husband, photographer William Claxton worked as a symbiotic trio — Gernreich dressing Moffitt in his then-futuristic ensembles and Claxton photographing Moffitt in the looks. The threesome fluttered about the Los Angeles art scene, defining the look...
Does this photograph remind you of anything? The blue, cloud-streaked sky calls to mind René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Max Ernst, while the ground and composition are a little Dalí, a little bit Giorgio de Chirico. The model hints at the work of Dorothea Tanning (who passed away Tuesday). The oval...
Before he died in 2002 at age 50, the fashion photographer Herb Ritts captured moments that remain a part of our zeitgeist, like "Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood," the 1989 image that helped define the idea of the supermodel. This weekend is the last chance to see 41 of the photographer’s images in “...
Pornography has long been an au courant subject for contemporary art — see John Currin, Marilyn Minter, or Richard Prince — but it's rare to find a working porn star who's making art. (Ron Jeremy's media empire isn't exactly the Warhol Factory.) Enter Sasha Grey, the 23-year old adult film actress who has, like an open-minded and highly...
