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New Face Elena Lazic - Moschino Cheap and Chic Campaign

VIVA LA DREEVA

Outside Giles in Paris

Photographed by Craig Arend

 

 

 

Dree spotted at the Palais de Tokyo (sporting spring time statement shades) has really taken the modeling world by storm over the last year. With a Gucci campaign, a cover of Russian Vogue, and editorials in LOVE, American Vogue and British Vogue the depth of her accomplishments grows deeper and deeper on an almost daily basis.

 

(found on photographer Craig Arend's blog: Altamira: Models Off Duty)

Alessandra Ambrosio arrives at the Latin VMA’s in LA on Oct 15th to present an award

Rimmel London announces Coco Rocha as their new face.

http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=15689&Title=Rimmel_London_signs_up_Coco_Rocha_and_Georgia_May_Jagger

 

 

 

Coco - Zac Posen F/W 2009

Meet Victoria's Secret Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio

Alessandra- Glamour en Espanol

Coco - Vogue Korea - October 2009

Alessandra on Twitter...

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Irving Penn - RIP

Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School from which he graduated 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he also painted. As his career in photography blossomed, he became known for post World War II feminine chic and glamour photography.

Penn worked for many years doing fashion photography for Vogue magazine. He was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop and used this simplicity more effectively than other photographers. Posing his subjects within this tight, unorthodox space, Penn brought an unprecedented sense of drama to his portraits, driving the viewer's focus onto the person and their expression. Clarity, composition, careful arrangement of objects or people, form, and the use of light characterize Penn's work.

 

Many times his photographs were so ahead of their time that they only came to be appreciated as important works in the modernist canon years after their creation. For example, a series of posed nudes whose physical shapes range from thin to plump were shot in 1949-1950, but were not exhibited until 1980.

 

In 1950, Penn married his favorite model, Lisa Fonssagrives and founded his studio in 1953. Penn's wife, Lisa Fonssagrives, died in 1992

 

He has published numerous books including the recent, "A Notebook at Random" which offers a generous selection of photographs, paintings, and documents of his working methods. The permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum possesses a silver gelatin print of Penn's The Tarot Reader, a photograph from 1949 of Jean Patchett and surrealist painter Bridget Tichenor.  In 2002, 53 photos were shown in a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In July 2005, Penn's work was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in an exhibit titled "Irving Penn: Platinum Prints."

Between January and April 2008, 67 portraits are shown at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City in an exhibit titled "Close Encounters". In September 2009, the J. Paul Getty Museum plans to exhibit the most extensive collection of Irving Penn's works. The Small Trades is a collection of 252 full-length portraits by Penn from 1950 to 1951.

 

Irving Penn died aged 92 on 7th October 2009, at his home in Manhattan.