Sometimes when I take pictures they don't turn out how I intended and I can't stand the final product...this picture is from one of those days. It was the only one in the set I like and I couldn't resist sharing it even though the rest were deleted. I'm wearing my Gal Stern tights and Seychelles booties. I was inspired to wear the tights after seeing Pansy Lane wear hers in a recent outfit post.
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Miles From Where You Are
I wrote about "a year in evenings" ages ago (years ago!); it was a project between two women living thousands of miles apart and visually combining their worlds through daily photographs. Since then two bloggers I quite admire have engaged in the same enterprise: Ana of On Dressing Up and Diana of Our City Lights. These two are living 6,768 miles apart, but connect every week by laying their photographs side by side. It's wonderful to see the similarities (like color schemes or shapes) and differences these pairings showcase. The romanticism in such a project is so appealing to me; I do hope someday I will find the perfect partner for a similar adventure.
Poor Spectres Of The Perished Summer
all images courtesy of InverseLive
Explosure
Some of the best photographers use "old school" techniques to create mind-blowing images that are better than anything that could be digitally created. Case in point: Tierney Gearon who used double exposures to create chance-narratives of startling and captivating scenes. The result are surreal images that bring together vastly opposed elements from groups of people, to landscapes and seasons. In many ways the set distills the myth that photography can't lie...
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Leap Of Faith
These pictures are only a few from the fifty vintage photographs taken by Philippe Halsman five decades ago. The subjects run the gamut from starlets, to authors, to royalty and politicians. While the people photographed are diverse, the idea that led to these images is the same: after the formal sessions were complete Halsman asked his subjects to jump. Many famous faces shed their usual public image in those few seconds for Halsman's camera and we are able to see the results.
Philippe Halsman Jump via Laurence Miller Gallery
The Body Of This World
"Here lies the body of this world,
Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
This golden youth long since was past,
Its silver manhood went as fast,
An iron age drew on at last;
'Tis vain its character to tell,
The several fates which it befell,
What year it died, when 'twill arise,
We only know that here it lies."
-Thoreau
images China Girl by Elena Kholkina
To Venerate The Simple Days
"To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or me
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!" -Emily Dickinson
all image by Anna Aden
The Hartwig Sisters
Dancers seem to make the best models and this set of images would appear to prove that idea. The striking setting and vintage clothes all captured in black and white seems to conjure up Victorian novels rather than the 70s era the clothes actually appear to be from. There's definitely a gothic romantic appeal to the photographs.
all Logan White
We Drink Our Fill Of Golden Sunshine
"HENCE Burgundy, Claret, and Port,
Away with old Hock and madeira,
Too earthly ye are for my sport;
There's a beverage brighter and clearer.
Instead of a piriful rummer,
My wine overbrims a whole summer;
My bowl is the sky,
And I drink at my eye."
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