Tom Palumbo | Paris 1962

Posted: January 26th, 2011 | Author: doug | Filed under: Film, Photography

An amazing series of candids shot by the fashion photographer Tom Palumbo in Paris, 1962.

Images from Paris cafés and nightlife in 1962, the same week Yves St. Laurent’s runway show vaulted Dior to new heights.

Many scenes around Les Halles (which no longer exists as it did then).

-Tom Palumbo

Interlude, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Eye Shadow, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Pink Scarf, Cigarette, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Model & Her Pet, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

A Perfect Pour, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Gout de vin, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Cheers, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Kissing the Hand, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Pout, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Trapped, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

At the bar, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Like Audrey, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Powder, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Cafe Flirting, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Laughter & Cake, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

After Dinner, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Young Lovers, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Impulsive Kiss, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Young Lovers Embrace, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Bella, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Bite, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

And the girls get drunk..., Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

That time of night, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

Light, Tom Palumbo, Paris 1962

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Tom Palumbo | Contact Sheets

Posted: January 24th, 2011 | Author: doug | Filed under: Film, Photography

There is nothing more naked than seeing a photographer’s contact sheets. Here are a few from the great editorial shooter Tom Palumbo who was a staff photographer with Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.

Anne St. Marie Contact Sheet, Tom Palumbo

Contact Sheet, Tom Palumbo

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Ellen von Unwerth | Revenge

Posted: June 2nd, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: Books, Film, Photography, Quotes

I love all the old pictures–of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can’t do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things. I thought it would be even more sexy when there was a story to go with it, so it wasn’t that difficult to write a little storyboard.

I had chapters, so there were 10 drawings in total. Each girl had a character and I used the storyboard to explain the story to the girls. But there was still freedom to play.

-Ellen Von Unwerth

Janelle Fishman as Emily; Travis Marshall as Eric the Chauffer; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Dorota Wójcik as Veronique a Maid; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Janelle Fishman as Emily; Diana Stroessel as Françoise; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Diana Stroessel as Françoise; Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Dorota Wójcik as Veronique a Maid; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Dorota Wójcik as Veronique a Maid; Tina Davis as The Baronness; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Tina Davis as The Baroness; Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Janelle Fishman as Emily; Travis Mashall as Eric the Chauffer; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Tina Davis as The Baroness; Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Svenja Parotat as Lulu a Maid; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Tina Davis as the Baroness; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Janelle Fishman as Emily; Travis Mashall as Eric the Chauffer; Tina Davis as the Baroness; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Julie Ordon as Marie-Louise; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Julie Ordon as Marie-Louise; Tina Davis as the Baroness; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Diana Stoessel as Françoise; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Diana Stoessel as Françoise; Travis Mashall as Eric the Chauffer; Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Diana Stoessel as Françoise; Travis Mashall as Eric the Chauffer; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Diana Stoessel as Françoise; Lenka Batkova as Laurence a Maid; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Janelle Fishman as Emily; Sarabeth Stroller as Isabelle; Julie Ordon as Marie-Louise; Diana Stroessel as Françoise; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

Micki Olin as Ivy; Janelle Fishman as Emily; Revenge by Ellen von Unwerth

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Ellen von Unwerth | Jean Seberg

Posted: May 25th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: Books, Cinema, Photography, Quotes

For more than twenty-five years, Ellen Von Unwerth has celebrated movies through her fashion photography. Her photographs are generally straightforward, without special effects of the allusion to a more complicated narrative; she simply uses characters from noted films as the protagonists of her fashion essays, such as the piece for the October 1990 issue of Vogue (available here, wm) in which models are used to reincarnate Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave counterculture film Breathless (1959). Von Unwerth’s fashion essay concentrates on the breezy life of the doomed lovers as they tool around Paris riding a motor scooter, smoke at cafés, and snuggle in bed. Von Unwerth exploits readers’ identification with the characters in the film, especially the generation that came of age in the 1960s, when European culture and bohemian antiestablishment lifestyle were the vogue. More specifically, the New Wave French films radically changed the way movies were made. They were consonant with the disjunctive and nonlinear literature of the time. Their off-beat characters (often based on American movie gangsters) and the details of their behavior and dress helped create an identity for members of the American couterculture.

-Susan Kismaric & Eva Respini, Fashioning Fiction

<i>Jean Seberg</i> with Christy Turlington, October, 1990 Vogue, Ellen von Unwerth

Jean Seberg with Christy Turlington, October, 1990 Vogue, Ellen von Unwerth

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Ellen von Unwerth | Audrey Tautou

Posted: May 13th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: Photography, Quotes

“Fabelhaft” with Audrey Tautou in German Vogue, April 2002.

Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy’s toys. They love playing… but once you’ve perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location.

-Ellen von Unwerth

Audrey Tautou in German Vogue by Ellen Von Unwerth

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Bruce Weber | Summer Camp

Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: Photography, Quotes

I think that a lot of people, especially people who work for fashion magazines, feel that their photographs at times are really pretty much discarded or thrown away immediately because when you work for a magazine people today really don’t save magazines like they used to. I just think that as long as one can work and have a good time at it and at least learn something then you’re not discarding what you do. You go out and do a photograph. It should be all about getting onto another photograph.

-Bruce Weber

Featuring Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Sasha Pivarova and styled by Alex White for the July 2008 issue of W Magazine.

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Ellen von Unwerth | Evan Rachel Wood

Posted: February 25th, 2010 | Author: doug | Filed under: Photography, Quotes

Von Unwerth seems less of an auteur directing her subjects than a co-conspirator who intimately knows the inner lives of these girls who want to have fun.

-American Photo