Look closely at the cover of Barely Private (Taschen)… that’s Brooke Shields in Cherokee headdress and stilettos, about to mount a hog. A fetish shoot or just image-retrofitting? Like a zigzag neon arrow, a shapely leg points to the entrance, dares us to have a peek.
And, of course, we do.
It’s been ten years since the publication of Santo D Orazio’s hot A Private View, and the shutterbug-Saint is back with another collaged scrapbook, packed with artful Eros. From Spain to Italy to the cliff... Read Full Story
Here’s a photo smuggled out of China, which I swiped from our Street Talk page.
This shot was taken with the Nikon D3s at ISO 8000.
The future of low light photography is looking very bright.
Not to mention the nightlife.
Here are the D3s features:
Nikon-original FX-format CMOS Sensor
Newly engineered for striking image fidelity and low-noise, optimizing pixel size and count in a 12.1-megapixel sensor to produce extraordinarily rich files.
Low Noise ISO Sensitivity from 200 to 12,80... Read Full Story
I’m pleased to unveil our new BEST PRODUCT OF THE YEAR award logo below. The award is divided into two categories—hardware and software—and will be given to ten products in each category. The winners will be featured in our December issue, so don’t miss it. Read Full Story
July 4, 2008.
That’s the date of the first entry on this blog, posted from Charlottesville, VA, as I was about to embark on the first leg of a journey to San Diego. It all began at Starbucks, so might as well return. They were closing stores back then—an early indication of bad economic news to come. Of course, Bush was president so some things have definitely gotten better. There was no Zoom Street, it was just an idea kicking around in my head. But you could always find a Bob’... Read Full Story
Dita: Stripteese is a sumptuously packaged collection of three flipbooks, starring the bountiful Queen of Burlesque—Dita Von Teese. The embossed cover fairly seduces one to touch it. You run your fingers over the lettering (naughty, naughty)… thinking, if only all photography books were this much fun.
Fittingly, the reader/viewer must undress this beribboned edition to unveil its contents: a trio of ornately designed flipbooks: Bird of Paradise, Classic, and Martini Glass. As with a box of i... Read Full Story
Book lovers with the munchies will feast on Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements, compiled by Dwight Garner.
You can snack on bite-sized bits of semi-“soft sell”:
I do not ask you to buy it, but I do tell you that “Sons and Lovers,” by D. H. Lawrence is one of the great novels of the year.
Or stuff your face with steaming hot hyperbole:
“Unsurpassed in American fiction!” (Gone with the Wind)
Bite into the classic manual from “a Great, New Movement” (Boy Scouts of Ameri... Read Full Story
Portraits of children have fascinated photographers since the dawn of the medium. One thinks of the controversial images taken by Lewis Carroll of Alice Liddell circa 1850.
In recent years we have Sally Mann’s equally controversail portraits.
Julie Blackmon’s “domestic” tableaux…
And the strikingly surreal photos by German photographer Loretta Lux…
To this genre we must add the Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene.
German publisher Schirmer/Mosel Verl... Read Full Story
