Archive for the ‘Capture/Photography’ Category

Three years in the making, The Rug Company’s collaborative effort with the late Alexander McQueen has resulted in four rugs. The four-piece series includes a cashmere Feathers rug [shown above] featuring a pattern based on a hawk’s feather; the wool and silk Skull rug, which comes with the designer’s most famous motif; Hummingbird [shown] depicting birds in flight against a black background. Originally used in a McQueen 2009 collection, the hummingbird pattern was based on a stop-motion wildlife photograph. The last design, Military Brocade, which reportedly was McQueen’s personal favorite, features golden oak leaves border and serpent. Said to be among Alexander McQueen’s last designs, they may be his swan song.

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Dutch photographer Sebastiaan Bremer’s Schoener Goetterfunken collection reads as both nostalgic and magical.

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Corinne Day, whose frank, unadorned photos of a teenage Kate Moss in the early 1990s helped inaugurate a new era of gritty realism in fashion photography that came to be called “grunge,” died Friday at her home in Denham, a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

“Photography is getting as close as you can to real life,” she said, “showing us things we don’t normally see. These are people’s most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad.”

Ms. Day built her reputation on unrelenting visual honesty. She refused to airbrush the bags from under models’ eyes or de-emphasize their knobby knees. She eschewed pretty locations or even studios in favor of shooting people in their own environments.

It added up to a startling detour from the glossy world of supermodels — “subversion,” in Ms. Day’s own phrase.

— NYTimes

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Defragmentation of Beauty | 25 Magazine Spring 2010 | Photography by Marcin Tyszka; illustrations by Tomek Sadurski and styled by Barbara Martelo; featuring Abbey Lee Kershaw, Anja Rubik, Karlie Kloss, Maryna Linchuk, Constance Jablonski, Alana Zimmer, Valerija Kelava, Shu Pei and Karmen Redaru.

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So Dreamy by Tim Walker, featuring Guinevere van Seenus, Vogue Italia March 2010.

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I Love You Magazine.

Levity and surrealism from photographer Tim Walker.

In collaboration with legendary American fashion photographer Bruce Weber, Dutch furniture company DEDON launches Coming Home, a limited edition book. Built on themes that Weber developed for DEDON’s advertising campaign, Coming Home is an exploration into the meaning of home and the feelings we hold for it.

The 120-page book is available on DEDON’s website and stores nationwide. Watch the Dedon ad campaign by Bruce Weber online.

Outdoor summer goodness by London-based photographer Debi Treloar.

Beautiful architecture photography by Nicholas Alan Cope.