PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags photography & fashion

Far more than just bits of fabric we use to cover our bodies, the clothes we wear and the ways we combine them convey a great deal about our personal tastes, lifestyles, perspectives and values, not to mention our society’s broader cultural mores.

Can you distinguish fashion from pornography?

125 is a magazine for people who love photography, design, fashion, art and visual culture presented in a grownup package that will entertain, enlighten and provoke debate.

BFA is a full service digital photography agency established in 2010 by Billy Farrell, David Prutting, Neil Rasmus & Joe Schildhorn. With a combined 25 years as top tier photographers at the renowned Patrick McMullan Company, the founders of BFA bring with them an impressive level of experience shooting in-house for some of the world's most exclusive events. "Nobody wants to be inundated. There is so much out there. What we need is fewer things, better edited." -Anna Wintour (The New York Times - 09/28/06)

De Françoise Huguier je connaissais essentiellement les photos de mode, de défilés, de backstages, des photos coupées qui vous dévoilaient d’exceptionnels robes, étoffes, jeux de tissus, de lumières … Des photos de mode à la façon de reportages terrain. Cette idée de capturer des moments de mode comme on capturerait des instants de vie est à mettre à la solde de Christian Caujolle, alors directeur du service photo chez Libé, dans les années 80. C’est lui qui envoya missionner Françoise Huguier dans ce monde de «raffinement et barbarie» … Bref l’alchimie des deux : reportage et mode a donné, et ne cesse de donner corps à de Sublimes photos (Titre d’un de ses livres de photos sur la mode).

Robert G. Bartholot is an artist with an emphasis on photographic illustration. His images are meant to tell a story without being too specific. They are often mystical and ironic at the same time, but always colourful and strong. Bartholot was born and raised in Germany and has lived in San Francisco, Zurich and Madrid. He is now based in Berlin.

In the early 1970′s, while walking with a friend through a park in Tokyo, photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki noticed that young couples used the park as a space for intimate encounters in the belief that they are protected by the darkness of the night. Equipped with a small camera and Kodak’s infrared flashbulb, Yoshiyuki produced a series of photographs that captures the nightly performance in Tokyo’s parks. In this haunting series of photographs produced between 1971 and 1979 and simply called The Park, the couples, both straight and gay, become the unwitting actors in Yoshiyuki’s play. While The Park has attracted much controversy in 1979 when it was first exhibited and published as a book in Tokyo, it was nearly thirty years later, in 2007, that Yoshiyuki’s project received global acclaim resulting in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe.

So if Vogue Paris going in on a directional change? or are they just giving props to the legends that created this thing called “superfashion”? Apparently this has been the question on everyones pouted lips since Emmanuelle Alt replaced Carine Roitfeld as the editor and chief of the print media title.

So the Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott-photographed shoot isn't exactly original. Thus there are two questions raised: first, is the photo shoot, none the less, any good? And secondly, does the lack of outright originality matter?

A l’occasion de la sortie du numéro anniversaire, célébrant les 90 ans du magazine, Vogue Paris lance sa première application iPad. Ce numéro exceptionnel de 624 pages, sortira simultanément en kiosque et sur l’Apple Store le 27 septembre. La version papier sera accompagnée d’un portofolio collector XXL de 100 pages regroupant les clichés les plus audacieux de Vogue Paris mais aussi de nombreuses surprises. Photographes, make-up artistes, journalistes… Ils ont tous travaillé pour faire de l’application Vogue Paris un outil aussi performant et novateur, à l’image du magazine. Au menu : un mini-film réalisé par Steven Klein, un clip vidéo filmé par Inez van Lamsweerde et Vinoodh Matadin le making-off d’une séance beauté de Mario Sorrenti. Le must : Carine Roitfeld, rédactrice en chef de Vogue Paris, commentera elle-même sur l’iPad les photos du portfolio collector. Rendez-vous le 27 septembre en kiosque et sur l’Apple Store pour souhaiter un bon anniversaire à Vogue.

Last month CondeNast announced iPad versions of 5 of their titles were being prepped,(not for Vogue and W yet!) . Interview, however, is taking the plunge. Back in February, a video demo of their iPad app ( see below) , showing the photography and text of the magazine intermixed with video and audio content.

Le magazine VICE est publié depuis octobre 1994. Originalement appelé Voice et imprimé en format fanzine, son ton intransigeant a immédiatement séduit les Montréalais anglophones dès sa première publication (oui, VICE est Montréalais d’origine). Aujourd'hui le magazine est distribué dans plus de vingt pays et son imprimé a atteint une circulation mondiale d’un million de copies. La version française de Vice magazine, lancée en Mars 2007, est tirée chaque mois à 80 000 exemplaires, distribués via un réseau national de 500 points (boutiques, galeries d'art, magasins de disques, bars, clubs...).

betsey johnson backstage

Uncovered: Celebrating Women in New York City: A woman's right to appear topless in public was legalized in New York in 1992. Since New York is the only state with such a law, forty-nine out of fifty states deem it illegal for a woman to remove her shirt in public. However, men are free to take off their shirts with impunity. Challenging this inequity between the sexes is the purpose of my work. There has been a recent shift in America towards a socially conservative philosophy, so right after Janet Jackson's breast was exposed at the Super Bowl, I started asking women to appear topless in New York City. I wanted to document what the Federal Communications Commission called "great outrage among the American people" over a bare breast. But soon I realized there was very little outrage. Of the thousands of people who saw the women topless, most reacted with enthusiasm, humor, and encouragement. This project has been featured by the Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The BBC, the New York Daily News, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, WOR Radio, CBS Radio, NY1 News, and the Foley Gallery in Chelsea.

I use both digital and traditionnal cameras. Tools : Canon 350D, Canon 5D, Canon A1, Nikon EM, Nikkormat, Certo6, Polaroid Barbie edition 600, Lomo Smena. and check the party photo blog l'aperolog

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Jed Root, Inc. is a New York-based agency that provides leading fashion photographers, stylists, and hair and makeup artists to various clients within the fashion industry.

clayton james cubitt's mom was a teenage runaway, go-go dancing at a club on bourbon street in new orleans. his dad was a canadian national running pot over the border from mexico.

Clayton Cubitt for Metropop // A collaboration with generative artist Tom Carden for the denim issue