Swiss fashion photographer René Habermacher is the photographer-you-should-know this week.
His career started in illustration but he made the right move with photography (and later cinematography), having worked for the most important fashion magazines and brands such as Dior and Bulgari among others.
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Tomorrow 22nd January is Peter Beard’s 73rd birthday. Even if many would consider is career as an artist to be behind him, Beard is still present in many publications. Either because as a photographer, his predictions on Africa‘s future are becoming truer everyday, or because as an artist, his diaries remain unique pieces documenting one’s life and inspiring others’. Nonetheless, he is also regarded as an true dandy, handsome and elegant ; perhaps making him a sort of role-model many would sought to imitate.
Gifted in several ways – his unique family background, his self-admitted luck, his creativity of course, and multi-polar passions – Beard uses photography as the foundation for works ranging from collages to film-making or acting. His personal life takes such a part into his creations, differentiate the two would be a tedious challenge. He brought fashion and supermodels into African landscapes as much as he brought Africa’s nature to the West, in a complete new way.
Tour d’horizon of his career and his life in a couple of dates, books, locations, wives and style.
Daria Werbowy
The new Pirelli Calendar was released officially in Moscow last week, and as usual, it is an event on its own in the world of photography. After Terry Richardson in 2010 – which did not makes me say ‘wow’ – and Peter Beard in 2009 – that was a big WoW -, it is Karl Lagerfeld who has the honor. And this time, I wowed a few times.
From his Paris studio, Lagerfeld created “Mythology”, a calendar that reflects one of his deepest passions, that of Greek and Roman mythology, tales of the origins of humanity told through the adventures of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines.
highsnobeity.com had the good idea to gather all (or most of) the photographies of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar here.
Don’t know the Pirelli calendar? Here is what P{irelli says about it:
The Calendar is the icon of Pirelli’s communication. A symbol that for over forty years not only celebrates female beauty, but also celebrates the complexity of an art that has been able to transform itself over time.
With constantly changing styles and authors, this art always manages to express a new aspect of history.
In short: it is a big thing.
(more about these after the click below… including nudity)
Pirelli Calendar 2010
Another massive book (30.9 x 42.5 cm and a mere 2.1 kilos!), from famed Holloywood Photographer Mario Testino, and foreworded by Nicole Kidman, which supposedly brings you in the life of celebrities. The list of those portrayed here would be long but let’s only mention, Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt, George Clooney.
Mario Testino's Let me in
