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Showing posts with label portraiture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portraiture. Show all posts
Inspiring Little Girls Beyond Disney Princesses - The NOT Just A Girl Series by Jaime Moore.
Wedding and lifestyle photographer Jaime Moore had been searching everywhere for some new creative inspiration for her daughter Emma's 5th birthday photos. When researching she noticed the prevalence of girls dressing as pretty Disney Princesses and no matter where she looked, 95% of the 'ideas' and 'how-to's' featured more of the same. Despite loving Disney Princesses herself (who doesn't?), after giving it much thought Jaime really wanted to use REAL women as inspiration for her daughter.
Photographer Christian Tagliavini And His Unique Paper, Plywood and Cardboard Dressed Portraits.
Recently, artist and photographer Christian Tagliavini completed a stunning series, 'Cartes', an artful take on playing cards using models clad in his paper fashions and decorative accessories.
above: Christian crafts the hat for the "Carte" shown below
Seeing those here on Huffington Post, inspired me to take a look at more of his work. As a result, I want to share with you two other series of his, Dames di Cartone (Cardboard Women) and 1503, both of which are formally photographed portraits of models clad in artful representations of historical fashions crafted out of cardboard, paper and plywood.
Dames di Cartone (Cardboard Women)
His series, Dames di Cartone, consists of two dimensionally outfitted portraits that emulate Cubistic, 17th century,and Fifties fashions. Using corrugated, cut and colored cardboard and plywood, the craftsmanship applied to live models makes for an interesting series.
#1, Dame di Cartone, Cubism I:
#2, Dame di Cartone, Cubism II:
#3, Dame di Cartone, Cubism III:
#4, Dame di Cartone, 17th Century I:
#5, Dame di Cartone, 17th Century II:
#6, Dame di Cartone, 17th Century III:
#7, Dame di Cartone, Fifties I:
#8, Dame di Cartone, Fifties II:
#9, Dame di Cartone, Fifties III:
1503
Similar creations of his can be found in his 1503 series. These represent 16th century fashions and combine textiles with paper and cardboard for a unique look. Several of these photographs have been featured on the cover of many photography and arts magazine worldwide.
#1 1503, Lucrezia:
#2 1503, Donna Clotilde:
#3 1503, Bartolomeo:
#4 1503, Ritratto di giovane donna:
#5 1503, Ritratto di signora in verde:
#6 1503, Ritratto d'uomo:
#7 1503, Artemisia:
#8 1503, Cecilia:
#9 1503, Ritratto di giovane uomo con cappello piumato:
Born in 1971, Christian Tagliavini was educated in Italy and Switzerland, where he lives and works as a photographer. This provides him the perfect frame and background to invent, create and totally produce images that blend fine arts and craftsmanship.
above photo of Christian Tagliavni by Paola Bergamaschi (courtesy of his Facebook page)
Christian Tagliavini
37 Years Of The Brown Sisters. Four Sisters Photographed Annually From 1975 - 2012.
Nicholas Nixon, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art, is one of the most celebrated American photographers of our generation. Among the most compelling of his series of photographs are the portraits he has made of his close-knit family which, taken over time, explore the nature of long-committed relationships.
His Brown Sisters series features an ongoing sequence of celebrated portraits of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters; Heather, Mimi and Laurie. Taken annually, beginning in 1975, the unpretentious black and white portraits of the Brown Sisters reveal gradual changes in their appearances and shifts in their relationships over the past 37 years.
above: the first formal portrait of the four sisters in which Heather was 23, Mimi was 15, Bebe was 25, and Laurie was 21
Nixon says of the project "I really try hard to make the pictures as interesting formally as I possibly can. One of my clear visual tricks is that I like open sky, cause I love to see the shapes of their heads, and I like to play around with the intervals in between them.
I take probably a dozen each year. They tell me what their favorites are, and what they dislike. But then I choose. I try to be as open with what they say as possible. In fact, I love to know what they think.
Being an only child, it was really gratifying and lovely to be embraced by this family. There's still a ground water of affection, and support. I look back at these thirty-some pictures and it's like they're of my sisters. I can feel myself getting old with them. And I'm part of them; they're part of my love. "
Using a large eight-by-ten-inch view camera positioned at eye level, he always photographs the women in the same order from left to right: Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie. And will continue to do so.
The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon from 1975 through 2012:
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
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1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
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2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
information and images courtesy of the following sources: MoMA, The National Gallery of Art,
Nicholas Nixon is represented by The Fraenkel Gallery
Nicholas Nixon Photography Books
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