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Herb Ritts (1952-2002) occupies photography’s Mount Olympus, along with the most important fashion and glamour photographers of the late 20th Century, including Horst, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, and Helmut Newton. His photographs are a pivotal reference in our collective cultural memory; the classical poses of celebrities and models with their clean lines and distinct forms are easily recognizable as his style.
Herb Ritts was self-taught and he took his cues from the desert landscape surrounding his home and his close proximity to Hollywood culture, evident in the graphic quality and visual simplicity of his photographs and the heightened glamour of their subjects. He inserts a sense of rigorous formalism that seems to be inspired by modernist photographers like Edward Weston, August Sander or Man Ray.
The Edwynn Houk Gallery in Zurich recently presented an exhibition of photographs drawn from the collection of the Herb Ritts Foundation. In addition, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, has recently acquired 69 black-and-white images by the late L.A. fashion photographer valued at close to $1 million, given by his foundation in a single transaction that was part gift and part purchase. A Ritts exhibition is being planned at the Getty, drawing in part from the new acquisition, for April 2012.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-photography-of-herb-ritts-distinctive-portraits-with-monumental-sensuality/Herb Ritts (1952-2002) occupies photography’s Mount Olympus, along with the most... more
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Two brothers, both alike in heritage, but as different as black and white. Ebony and ivory. Night and day. You get it. If one thing's clear about 18-year-old British twins James and Daniel Kelly, it's that they never get confused for one another.
James and Daniel are the human version of a black and white cookie. Born to Alyson and Errol Kelly, an interracial couple, they display the unusual characteristic of being a pair of one dark-skinned and one-light skinned twins, reports the Guardian.
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So how did this genetic anomaly occur?
Dr. Jim Wilson, a population geneticist at Edinburgh University, tells the Guardian that the cause is the father's heritage. Errol, Jamaican by background, holds the genetic key to skin color variations among offspring.
"It wouldn't really be possible for a black African father and a white mother to have a white child, because the African would carry only black skin gene variants in his DNA, so wouldn't have any European DNA, with white skin variants, to pass on," he explains.
However, Wilson also tells the Guardian that people of Caribbean descent are often likely to carry European DNA. Which, if you can remember back to your high school biology unit on genetics, is enough to create a striking difference.
"The Caribbean father will have less European DNA than African DNA, so it's more likely he'll pass on African DNA – but rarely, and I've worked it out to be around one in 500 sets of twins where there's a couple of this genetic mix, the father will pass on a lot of European DNA to one child and mostly African DNA to the other. The result will be one white child and one black."
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/27/surprising-siblings-black-and-white-brothers-are-actually-twins/#ixzz1ZACxvWLO
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/27/surprising-siblings-black-and-white-brothers-are-actually-twins/?xid=rss-politics-huffpoTwo brothers, both alike in heritage, but as different as black and white. Ebony and... more
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Lady Gaga is hardly one for stripping down to almost nothing in order to gain attention. In fact, as Weird Al pointed out, Gaga is noted for her outrageous attire, but as he sang in his song “Perform This Way”, “Hope you won’t think it’s cliche if I go nude today/Don’t call the cops now, baby, I perform this way.” She came pretty close to that in her latest video, the second for her song “Yoü and I”.
Gaga recently announced on Twitter that she had shot five ‘fashion films’ set to the song. The video was shot with Dutch fashion photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. She later let loose with the first clip which is kind subtitled “Haus of Ü Featuring Nymph.”
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Colors play an important role in making any photograph worth watching if used properly. No doubt colorful photos are very attractive and catchy but nowadays partially colored photos are getting very trendy. Partial photos are created by converting photos into black and white with the exemption of only one entity which is made colorful to be noticeable. This is why it is sometime called as Black and White with Partial Color.
In this post, we have prepared this assortment of black and white photography with partial color. So get ready to be inspired and thrilled.
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Old footage of an interview with Bruce Lee, who answers questions about his life in film and then demonstrates martial arts, while also explaining the different techniques in comparison. [via b3ta]Old footage of an interview with Bruce Lee, who answers questions about his life in... more
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Zombies attack a young lady, but not for her flesh or brains ... but for something a little more cold ... turn the volume all the way up for max appreciation of the sound work.Zombies attack a young lady, but not for her flesh or brains ... but for something a... more
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Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and Painting at St. Martins School of Art.
He started photographing in December 2000 in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style. He no longer directs, devoting himself full time to his fine art photography now.
Brandt's first book of photographs, "On This Earth", was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books, with forewords by Jane Goodall and Alice Sebold (author of "The Lovely Bones").
He has had numerous one-man exhibitions between 2004 and 2006, including London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Santa Fe, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco.He now lives in Topanga, California....
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
I’ve always thought this something of a wasted opportunity. The wild animals of Africa lend themselves to photographs that extend aesthetically beyond the norm of 35mm-color telephoto wildlife photography. And so it is, that in my own way, I would like to yank the subject matter of wildlife into the arena of fine art photography. To take photographs that transcend what has been a largely documentative genre.
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http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/brandt/brandt.htmlYOUNG GALLERY-
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Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and... more
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One of the sections from a film I directed called "Pellicole Non finite." It's about fishing ... French New Wave style!One of the sections from a film I directed called "Pellicole Non finite."... more
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Silent film actors enjoying Sun Chips new compostable bag.
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A customer at a restaurant finds a hair in his food but his waiter is not being helpful and a fight ensues.
Blake Pruitt's second film at the 2009 New York Film Academy Summer Film Program. Shot on 16 mm, black-and-white film.A customer at a restaurant finds a hair in his food but his waiter is not being... more
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Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
JOIN ME ON MONDAY'S @ 12pm in the afternoon FOR THE LIVE SHOW at : http://www.unitedkingdomradio.co.uk . You can join in LIVE by SKYPE,email or telephone.
In today's show :
Nice to be back home.
Dinner on the beach.
She's still got a black & white set.
How can you sit there breaking off limbs ?
DVD quality.
The lovely people on Norfolk Island.
What time is 12pm UK time in your country ?
Katie was well looked after.
Not keen on Brisbane.
Making a start with the backlog of emails.
"I'm only being honest".
How many people have no common sense ?
Someones been to the Caribbean.
Rude people.
Ladies in short grass skirts.
Kill them with kindness.
Who's eaten Pigeon ?
She talks even more now.
A slap round the face.
Waiting for a new gadget.
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WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UKSaturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more
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You love going to the Cinema. But, have ever wondered what goes on inside a Projection Room?
Voiceless Reel (2010) is an elegant black and white short-documentary unfolding the workday of a 3D cinema projectionist with 52 years of experience in the industry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vsN8r0CYUcYou love going to the Cinema. But, have ever wondered what goes on inside a Projection... more
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She helped define fashion photography before taking 20 years off. At 93, she is in the midst of a career renaissance.She helped define fashion photography before taking 20 years off. At 93, she is in the... more
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Tell me this isn't compelling--and if you read further and see how beautifully written this short piece is......you'll feel damned gratified too.
"Somewhere in Odessa there is a photograph of me. It might be stored away gently in a envelope. It may be crudely covered in rubble in a dump. But somewhere…..somewhere in the Ukraine there is a snapshot of me...........Tell me this isn't compelling--and if you read further and see how beautifully... more
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