Vogue Italian - August 2010

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Sex Sells

Newton and the 'Story of ohh'

'The Story of ohh'

-1975

-American model, Liza Taylor

-Photographer, Helmut Newton

-Series of photographs which were first published in American Vogue

-Featured a man, two women and a dog

-This was the best known photograph of the series

-Entitled "Woman examining Man, St Tropez, 1975"

-Model wearing Calvin Klein dress lustfully gazing at a shirtless man

-Lounging on a sofa, legs spread wide apart

-Reference to the 'Story of O'

-The story of 'O' is an erotic novel about female submission and ultimate sexual objectification

-Published anonymously in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos

Michael Antonioni 'Blow up'

Blowup (or Blow-Up) is a 1966 film directed by Michelanglo Antonioni, his first English-language film.

It tells of a British photographer's accidental involvement with a murder, inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool" (1959), translated also as Blow-Up, and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. 

"The sexiest cinematic moment in history". 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup

Raunchy Advertising

 Gucci For Men:

Gucci of Women:

A few other ones from different brands:

(All Images from Google Images)

Netwon's Sexy Images

  

Helmut Newton, (1920 Germany - 2004 USA) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications.

More Infomation

Italian Vogue 'Water and Oil'

The Catwalk As A Creative Front Line

"Come along to our discussion session with a panel of fashion and photography experts (Simon Swale, Max Oettli, Emily Hlavac Green and Emily Goldthorpe), who will discuss the intersections of art, fashion, and photography. The panel will discuss how fashion photography has come to be recognised as a form of art and consider what issues and possibilities come into play where each are concerned. A question and answer session will follow."

-Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Blue Oyster Website

Notes From The Lecture:

"Fashion as Art"
Or 
"Art as Fashion"
-Up to the viewer to decided weather or not Fashion is art. 

Fashion magazines turn over at a fast rate
-Full of advertising and things for sale
Does this mean it's not art?

Fashion photography was very media driven post war (1975)
Sarah Moon (Photographer)
-Impressionist 
-Uses 35mm film
-Soft backgrounds and makes heavy use of light
-Style resembles painting

-Fashion photography has taken on different roles depending on what context it is in

For example:

Italian Vogue

'Water and Oil' photoshoot (2010)

-These images caused controversy

-Not a glamorization of a tragedy or a way to sell something

-What would happen if it was in a different magazine? Art or photography magazine. 

-Would these images be presented as art?

Vogue's Oil Spill

Image in/Cover of Vogue - 1969

-Two models covered in black stuff, looking like corpses

-Not wearing any cloths

-Art or Fashion?

(Can't find an image)

Corrine Day (Fashion photographer)

-Model Kate Moss, around 17 years old, before she was famous

-Called Underexposed

-1970s onwards, selling a life style. An idea world for rich beautiful people

-Id magazine

-Founded in 1980 by former art director Terry Jones

Id online

Julia Cameron (Photographer)

-Art, not fashion

Fashion Photography has changed over the last 10 years

-Posed

-Fantasy world that doesn't exist 

For example Annie Leibovitz:

Newton

-1975

-Playboy photographer

-This image is very unlike Newton's other works

-Impowering for woman

-The story of 'o'

-The gaze

(More on this in later post)

Tom Ford for Gucci

-Meters away from the bed

-Very raunchy, sexy

-Going back to the life style idea of fashion photography

Galliano (Fashion designer)

-Shanghai runway show

-The shop window displayed one garment and behind it an images of an Asian woman in a factory sewing

-This image got bad reviews as it seemed to be a direct relation to the sweet factories in Asia

Panels view on Fashion Photography:

"Good fashion photography is kick ass"

-Max Oettli

"First reaction to the photography image is the most important"

-Emily Goldthorpeled

"Styled, team: models, photographer, makeup etc. Not interested in narrative, shows personality not about the photograph"

-Simon Swale

"Mark of craft, styling, narrative, moves away from the clothing and finds something else"

-Emily Hlavac Green

"Fashion photography has two sides: The catalog image and the fantasy image, both very different. Fantasy photography is more narrative based, it tells a story and drawing you into another world. These fantasy images more away form the clothing, unlike catalog photography and become about not only the things in the image but the whole production, like a film set."

-Amy Moffitt

Annie Leibovitz

I'm really interested in scenes in Hotel/bed rooms at the moment. Not sure where it will go yet. There are some of Annie Leibovitz photographs.

'The Gaze' Reading

-I thought this was a nice conclusion in the reading about The Gaze
-Link to reading:
http://moodle.op.ac.nz/file.php/1321/MC_11March_Olin.pdf