a visual collective outlet of inspiration 
beautifully dark picture of model saskia de brauw by photographer luigi murenu (streeters). love the lips the composition and the open torso. by dd
photography
jacques henri lartigue – master of the snapshot
looking back at jacques henri lartigue photographs recently, i was smitten by the snapshoty aspect of it. and actually it makes total sense, at the time photo was only for technical usage as well as rich people that could afford it. and lartigue was not only rich but he was young and has plenty pf time to laugh around. so the prohibitive price of a single snapshot had people only doing contrived picture, when jacques henri was snapping around. somehow, there is this kind of fresh and great aspect to his work that you see a lot those days on blogs and candid shot photographers portfolio. not sure if the vintage aspect makes me not being really objective, yet he seems to remain the master. love it! by pp.
oublier modiano – marie lebey
france sometimes like to look its past a bit too much. i guess it can become an issue for some people, it’s a bit more of a situation when it comes to a country. anyway, out of those people turned on the past, cult french writer patrick modiano is somehow different. he’s books really smell this french nostalgia that is not so sexy and that maybe only french can get. at least author marie lebey gets it, and she gets it so much that she decided to go to all the places that patrick modiano talks about in his book. on top of going there, she decided to shoot them and publishing house leo scheer take on to make it into a book. i’m kind of relieved and intrighued at the same time because going to places from a book or so this is the kind of thing i would do, it’s a bit of a old school stalking, isn’t it? going back to the book, i don’t know why she decided to call it “oublier modiano” (forget modiano) but the author is said to be really furious, i guess it’s not in its plan to be forget…
in the book, she copied few lines from the book related to the place she photographed. i think the all thing is really moving. by pp.
lid twelve: the magazine for the color-blind
liv tyler by david croland
h.g.wells 1939
the amazing pierre clementi and isabelle adjani 1981
stuart sutcliffe and astrid kirchherr – hamburg 1961
we love lid, and publisher/photographer david croland… picked up the twelfth issue for $15 and worth every dollar. beautiful black and white photography and a range that is quite supereb. my favorite is the image of pierre clementi by jurgen vollmer. in a sea of crap fashion mags its nice to have david croland around. well done. by dd
giasco bertolli – “blow up” maryon park
i first saw this story by photographer giasco bertolli in purple mag some years ago and i remember what i felt seeing it at the time. it’s so relevant. for those who didn’t get it yet, the guy shot the park featured in antonioni’s “blow up”, 50 years later. the park was indeed an almost as important part of the cast as the actors. very poetic. by pp.
elein fleiss – tourist
after starting purple magazine with mr zham in the 90’s, elein fleiss set up apart from the kinky direction her old buddy was taken with “purple fashion” and started “les cahiers purple”. certainly closer to the original philosophy of the duo, her publication seems to come and go without noise and regularity. the pictures she’s taking of places with soul were published in tourist magazine. so soft and dreamy, it’s a nice alternative to the over crowded business of the sharp and cold interior photography business. love it. by pp.
charlotte perriand – photo to design
i’m sure this exhibition is allover paris and french medias but here in new york, not so much. that is a very cool one, not another perriand/corbu show with the same book that is not bringing anything fresh to the talble. here, curators at “le petit palais “ put next to each other the photographic work of miss perriand and pieces that result from it. really interesting! is it a bit naive if i say that i prefer some of her photos over some of her furniture…
“from the fish bones that prompted her ‘banquette tokyo’ to the reclining figure that inspired her ‘chaise longue basculante’, the photographs lay bare her creative process. perriand began using photography for preliminary studies from the moment she joined the le corbusier/pierre jeanneret studio as furniture design associate in 1928, looking at the ‘laws of nature’ in urban and mountain contexts, and many of the 380 photographs show objects discovered on her many walks.” via wallpaper
by pp.
Lina Scheynius: beautiful photographs
saw lina scheynius’ book today and it reminded me of how much i liked it the first time i saw it. her work, unlike jurgen or terry is soft, and kind. there is a feminine touch and void of the “jerky boy gets a hold of point and shoot” attitude so inherent in so many of the others. she still shoots with a 35mm camera and at 28 isn’t about to let that go. its a hard sell in this world of instant gratification with digital but there is something to gain at the end… if you can see that. by dd
Arquivo Brasilia
lina kim and michael wesely went through the 10,000 images documenting the construction of brasilia, this weird architectural project that came out of nowhere in only a 4 years time. from an era that hold dreamers and believers to us, everything is compiled in a book, 1,400 photos, step by step. some kind of must have here. by pp.
book hunting
on a hunt for the british version of the book (not the elephant). those brits know how to do things, man. putting mister saville behind the design seems smart, what is beyond dumbness is why the us version has such a shitty cover? at least ivan’s pics didn’t change. by pp.
pierre le-tan / ivan terestchenko – objets trouvés
while zoning on my favorite blogs i naturally ended on the great one from the non the less great photographer ivan terestchenko. there was this post about illustrator pierre le-tan. since i grew up in paris, his illustrations were all around. i decided to post some of them but was really disappointed about what i found on the net (and i’m not talking about the dumb sun-tanning google ads when you hit pierre le-tan…). what is nice is the fact that i found an amazing website called designers books. they features pics of rare and out of print books… out those was “objets trouvés” which is a collaboration between the illustrator and the photographer mentioned above. never been able to check the inside before and as one can think when those two are involved, it’s great! by pp.
yves saint laurent – still obsessed
ysl (slimane, terestchenko, colette.) by pp.
