Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR
"She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud."
RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF TAYLOR
WILLIAM KLEIN
VOGUE MARCH 1965
"Those huge violet-blue eyes ( the biggest I've ever seen) had an odd glint in them. You couldn't describe it as a twinkle....Searchlights cannot twinkle, they turn on and off and probe the heavens and so on."
RICHARD BURTON WRITES OF TAYLOR
WILLIAM KLEIN
VOGUE MARCH 1965
ELIZABETH TAYLOR - RICHARD BURTON
ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON
THE COMEDIANS
OTTO STORCH
SHOW MAGAZINE
ELIZABETH TAYLOR - WORLD CLASS BEAUTY
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
RICHARD AVEDON
HARPER'S BAZAAR OCTOBER 1964
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
RICHARD AVEDON
HARPER'S BAZAAR SEPTEMBER 1960
A GREAT BEAUTY
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
VERUSCHKA - RICHARD AVEDON
“Veruschka Is the most beautiful woman in the world…”
Richard Avedon
VOGUE 1972
“Veruschka is the most beautiful woman in the world. There’s just nobody like her. If she’s beautiful, she’s beautiful alone. Veruschka’s bones, her body, her extraordinary length have compelled her to invent her own person. There’s just no one she could imitate.”
Richard Avedon
VOGUE 1972
“Veruschka is the only woman I permit to look at herself in the mirror while I’m photographing her. The mirror makes most women aware of their weaknesses and, in trying to correct them, they come up with evasions, hiding arms that seem to thin or hips that seem too wide. Veruschka knows that it is what’s peculiar to her that’s beautiful and she works to bring it forward. It’s wonderful to see her searching for and emphasizing her irregularities.”
Richard Avedon
VOGUE 1972
Veruschka and Swami Satchidananda
“There are times during a sitting when she turns to look at me, or at the camera and, without so much as lifting an eyebrow or curving her mouth, smiles, challenges. It’s like the opposite of the Dylan song, “I’ll let you in my dream if you’ll let me in yours.” That seems to be what most people need. But not Veruschka. She’ll let you look into her dream but she wouldn’t fit in yours.”
“There’a a profoundly moving moment at the end of every sitting with Veruschka when I say, I think I’ve got it.” She looks at me with a startled expression that comes very quickly across her face. I once asked her what she hopes for from a sitting, why she needs it, and she said, “When I was a child I loved things because they were beautiful, but that isn’t enough. I want to do something with it. You make photographs. I would like to do it with my own body. I’m fascinated to see myself reproduced again, that there is no end of looking always a little bit different, And this is like a wine or a drug or something. You always have to have another one.”
VERUSCHKA
RICHARD AVEDON
VOGUE 1972
In the Sixties, the artist Vera von Lehndorff became known as ‘Veruschka’ one of the first supermodels to span whole issues of Vogue including countless covers.
With the 1986 publication of Veruschka: Transfigurations - she proved more interested in disguising her great physical beauty through morfing with innate objects under the precise examination of photographer and collaborator, Holger Trülzah
VERUSCHKA
STILL A GREAT BEAUTY
Saturday, March 19, 2011
RICHARD AVEDON AND DORIAN LEIGH - THE "FIRE AND ICE GIRL"
DORIAN LEIGH
RICHARD AVEDON
THE EYE TRAVELS TO THE SLEEVE
HARPER'S BAZAAR OCTOBER 1949
“I had worked with Dick Avedon only on advertisements, not fashion editorial, but I liked his style. Instead of using the “still life” approach, which meant asking a model to strike a pose and freeze, he kept her moving, sometimes moving around her himself with his camera in his hands, keeping up a conversation, explaining what he wanted her to feel and portray, always telling her how well she was doing, making her feel she was the most beautiful creature on earth.”
DIOR
DROPPED SHOULDERS.HUGE SLEEVES.IMMENSE COATS
DORIAN LEIGH
RICHARD AVEDON
“Dick had such a pleasant disposition and such a good sense of humour that working with him was always fun. Yet underneath the laughter and good times was a seriously creative man.”
WHERE WILL YOU PUT YOUR HAT?
DORIAN LEIGH
RICHARD AVEDON
HARPER'S BAZAAR OCTOBER 1949
“Every photographer had his own highly identifiable approach toward taking pictures of women wearing beautiful clothes, but Dick’s work was so unique that it not only changed the whole concept of fashion photography, but also the appearance of fashion magazines and even the types of girls who became models. Dick wanted his models to look like real people wearing real clothes; he wanted real expressions on their faces and genuine reactions to their surroundings. Of course, the girls were more beautiful and the settings more idyllic than most real-life situations, but that was the point. An Avedon photograph was just real enough to make a fashion-minded woman feel she could look the way the model did.”
Dorian Leigh from “The Girl Who Had Everything…The Story of The “Fire and Ice Girl”
DORIAN LEIGH
ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY
Friday, March 18, 2011
ANDY WARHOL - SMALL WORLD
The Ghost In You
Psychedelic Furs
SMALL WORLD
WARHOL
HARPER'S BAZAAR 1958
warhol admin girl @ devodotcom
FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom
posts on or containing Andy Warhol
Robert Mapplethorpe-Sweet and Sour 1/31/12
Back to the-Future New York 1952 1/27/12
Devodotcom:
The Playlist 1/11/12
Remembering
Christmas Past – The Sixties 12/13/11
Remembering
Christmas Past - WARHOL 1959 12/09/11
Remembering
Christmas Past - WARHOL 1957 12/02/11
WARHAUL 11/17/11
WARHOLIA 10/10/11
60’S-State
of Independence 7/21/11
Andy
Warhol - Small World 3/18/11
Andy
Warhol - The Factory 1964-1967. 3/12/11
Al Di
La 11/29/10
“Dovima
With Elephants… 11/25/10
Harper’s
Bazaar Great Exaggerations 7/27/10
Jeanloup
Sieff 7/22/10
Saturday, March 12, 2011
ANDY WARHOL - THE FACTORY 1964-1967
AFRICAN AND WHITE
CHINA CRISIS
NICO
EDIE SEDGEWICK
“Like most of the girls at the Factory, there wasn’t anything real about Edie. She was simply signs and symbols. She was spoiled in every sense, a child of the haute bourgeoisie, with no thought in her head at all, except ‘Edie’. Edie was slumming: rich down-town people getting in their car and driving up to Harlem to score, pretending they were in that scene. Then the scene came up and bit her in the ass. Edie was another one of these little, rich kids, who came down to where it was too rough for her to play…so she lost the game.”
Nat Finkelstein
Andy Warhol The Factory Years 1964 – 1967
EDIE -ANDY-JOHN WILCOX-STEPHEN SHORE
BOB DYLAN
WARHOL - DYLAN
WARHOL - PETE TOWNSHEND - BRIAN JONES
WARHOL - LOU REED
ANDY WARHOL
THE FACTORY YEARS 1964 - 1967
PHOTOGRAPHY
NAT FINKELSTEIN
admin girl @devodotcom
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Andy Warhol in devodotcom posts
Warhol
and the Final Decline and Total Collapse of the Avant-Garde
5/24/10
Jeanloup
Sieff
7/22/10
Harper’s
Bazaar Great Exaggerations for Gala Evenings
7/27/10
Dovima
With
Elephants
11/25/10
Al Di
La
11/29/10
Andy
Warhol The Factory
1964-1967
3/12/11
Andy
Warhol Small World
3/18/11
60’s -
State of
Independence
7/21/11
WARHOLIA
10/10/11
WARHAUL
11/17/11
Remembering
Christmas Past – Warhol
1957
12/2/11
Remembering
Christmas Past – Warhol
1959
12/9/11
Remembering
Christmas Past – The Sixties
12/13/11
Devodotcom:
The Playlist
1/11/12
Back
To The
Future
1/27/12
1/31/12
Monday, March 7, 2011
I'M JUST A LADY - LAID BACK - NEVER SHADY
SOPHIA LOREN
LUCIE DE LA FALAISE
QUENTIN CRISP
DECEMBER 1908 – 21 NOVEMBER 1999
ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY
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