Although I take many pictures and receive a bunch of "Likes" on Instagram, I could never be a real photographer because I would never be able to master the nuances and mechanics required for a 35mm camera and darkroom, and that’s because I am an idiot. Thankfully, because of … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Horst
August 14, 1906– Horst P. Horst is another photographer and another gay artist. Celebrating the birthdays of Horst and Herb Ritts within 24 hours is an embarrassment of artistic photographic riches. I would give myself a grade of B- as an artist. I can draw and … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Make-Up Artist, Way Bandy
August 9, 1941- Way Bandy made up some of the planet's most beautiful & accomplished women, & by “made up” I don’t mean imagined, although he did do that in a way. He called it … [Read more...]
#HappyMothersDay: 13 Amazing Artist Tributes to Women & Love
This grouping is not definitive in any way. You could have entire museum exhibits and volumes of catalogue about women, the female form, in art and photography from Madonna & Child to Madonna and daughter Lordes. But [Read more...]
#Hollywoodland: Celebrity Portraits of Bardot, Pitt, Barrymore & More
Seeing Stars: Celebrity Portraits features photographs of celebs by Chris Levine, Terry O’Neill, Mario Testino, Horst, Bert Stern, David LaChapelle and more. Some of these shots are iconic others are much lesser known, but all the world's a stage and they are just playing their … [Read more...]
Picture This: Horst At The V & A
Last week, the V&A Museum in London launched a retrospective of the work of the legendary photographer Horst P. Horst. (1906-99) In an extraordinary career spanning 60 years, his photographs appeared on the pages of Vogue and House and Garden under the singular byline; "Horst". … [Read more...]
Today bid on art from the 80s at this auction
Bid online for pieces by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Donald Baechler, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Marc Newson, Tom Wesselmann, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jenny Holzer, Herb … [Read more...]
Two things
Dalí costumes photographed by Horst P. Horst (1939) and a costumed Leigh Bowery photographed by Fergus Greer (1991) … [Read more...]
