© Marco Pietracupa

According to Christian (yes, he’s blogging vicariously through me), Marco Pietracupa’s fashion photography is like Juergen Teller minus famous naked people.

Pretty much. Take a look if you like Teller.

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Terry Richardson, Vincent Gallo and RZA have teamed up with Belvedere Vodka for their new Luxury Reborn campaign.

“Indulge responsibly.” Ehemm… right.

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Untitled (from “Silent Spring”)
© Lina Scheynius

Lina Scheynius took my breath away this evening with a single photograph from her fashion set titled Silent Spring.

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Get a whiff of the new Gucci by Gucci.

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© Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek / Exactitudes

While I’m at it...

I give you Exactitudes. As described on SHIFT,

Exactitudes started back in 1994 when photographer, Ari Versluis and stylist, Ellie Uyttenbroek came up with a campaign for KPN (Dutch Telecom) which was based around telephone cards with images of youth culture. At the time Rotterdam was the capital of a big working class youth culture called Gabber. Ari described them as, ‘technomates in Italian candy-coloured shellsuits. Bold, clean terror. Addicts to hardcore music, 180 bpm in XTC.’ They took pictures of a few gabbers but quickly found they were indistinguishable because they all looked alike! By infiltrating the scene, they were then able to take hundreds of seemingly identical photographers and an idea was born.

More info about the project can be found here. And if you like what you see, check out the book.

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Sonia, 2007 (from “Fashion Magazine”)
© Alec Soth

Pamela and Allen, 2007 (from “Fashion Magazine”)
© Alec Soth

Alec Soth’s images from his new glossy Fashion Magazine (Paris Minnesota) have just been put on his website (thanks Eric). Previously, only scans from the work shot for W were available online.

While Fashion Magazine has a single photographer-author, it’s still a magazine, not a book. So it doesn’t follow my usual mode of slow, solitary production. It’s collaboration. The ideas for the collaboration were formulated very quickly. I was approached by the folks at the Paris office of Magnum to work on this issue late last year. I immediately said yes. I was a huge fan of the previous two editions (by Martin Parr and Bruce Gilden) and was looking for an excuse to play with fashion. ... I often say that when I am making a portrait, I’m not ‘capturing’ the other person. If the photograph documents anything, it is the space between the subject and myself. Something similar is at work with Fashion Magazine. I’m not really comfortable saying I know anything about Paris or its fashion world. And I suspect that most fashionable Parisians know just as little about Minnesota. What is interesting is the space between us. My favorite example of this involves Chanel. In Paris, I photographed Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais. In Minnesota, I photographed a girl with a Chanel shopping bag in front of Sally’s Beauty Shop. With this magazine, I’m trying to explore the distance between those two places.

Preorder your copy of the magazine (signed) here. There’s only one run of these—so when they’re gone, they’re gone.

View the photographs here.

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Richardson, A2, 2007
© Richardson

The other day, after spotting Terry Richardson walking his dog in SoHo (somehow this amused me, seeing a celebrity-status fashion photographer, mostly notorious for nakedness and vulgarity just, well, strolling around) I was informed of Terry’s work appearing in yet another expectantly raunchy magazine.

Richardson, which I’m not sure I can call it a fashion magazine or not, features a few recognizable fashion names including Richard Prince, Ed Templeton, Mario Sorrenti and, of course, Terry himself. The magazine is edited by Andrew Richardson, hence the name, but Terry collaborates.

Recently, Amy Stein made a post about Taryn Simon’s photographs found in issue 2 (A2) of the magazine. Amy was shocked the the photographs were actually by Simon and you’ll know what she means when you see them.

Anyway, I thought I’d post about this discovery for anyone who’s into all things “Terryworld,” as some of the other photo porfolios may strike their fancy. Apparently the magazine can be acquired in physical form at St. Marks Book Shop in the lower east side and other book shops in London, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere at $50 a pop.

If you’re running out to pick up your copy in New York, watch out for this guy walking his dog:

© Terry Richardson

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from “Sugar Shock” (for New York Times Magazine)
© Martin Parr

In the spirit of recent “art photographers” making their mark on the “fashion world” (see my last post on Alec Soth in W Magazine), I thought I’d point everyone to today’s New York Times Magazine featuring a spread by the one and only Martin Parr. In Sugar Shock, Parr turns fashion accessories and jewelry into delightfully colorful, and nearly edible, objects.

As a side note, Mr. Parr has apparently been doing other editorial work for New York Times, as he has a few images accompanying this article.

Look at Sugar Shock first, though.

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Spread from W Magazine, April, 2007
© Alec Soth

Job Piston referred me to his scans from the lovely 26 page Alec Soth fashion spread in the April issue of W Magazine. Though the scans could have been better made, for those of you who haven’t flipped through a copy of W already, you’re in for a treat.

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April, 2007
© W Magazine

I finally got a chance to have the awkward, though quick, inquisitive glance from the store clerk while buying myself a copy of W Magazine. W Magazine, you ask? This months copy, the April issue, features a 26 page fashion spread by photographer Alec Soth.

The concept for the shoot was to photograph young local residents of Walker, Minnesota (and surrounding areas) wearing the high-fashion clothing that Camilla Nickerson, the stylist, picked out. Photographed in their own environments, sometimes personal spaces like bedrooms, the intimacy that Alec is able to capture in his Niagara and Sleeping by the Mississippi series’ comes through here, too. Mixed in with the gorgeous portraits are the still lifes and quiet landscapes of his that I’ve also learned to love. I’m really very impressed with the amount of artistic freedom that W provided him with for the project. And now I just may have a new favorite sometimes-fashion photographer.

Alec shared one of the images from the spread on his blog (I haven’t seen any others surface online yet) and, in return, recieved a lot of questions from his readers. He took the time to address some of these questions here and here.

If you haven’t seen this already, just for fun you may also want to check out this quick video of Alec working on one of the shoots from his assistant, Eric William Carroll’s, blog AMP.

UPDATE: Scans from the magazine have surfaced here. Thanks, Job.

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