Sunday, April 06, 2008

katie west


she must be one the most honest artists and sweet photographer online.
katie west has told us many things.
"come for the breasts, stay for the rest" is her slogan.
this is her art

katie's flickr here
LiveJournal - diosa_en_disfra
website

Today someone told me that I have low self-esteem. I was amazed. They told me that the reason I take self-portraits and post them on the internet must be because I think very low of my self and need others to tell me how beautiful I am. This in itself was a little upsetting if only because I thought the person who said it, knew me better than that. But then I realized, that this might be what most people think of what I do.
I'm easy to lose in a crowd, if you ever saw me in real life, you probably wouldn't recognize me. The woman I show you in my photos, in only a small fraction of the woman I am. You could pass me on the street and never know that everyday you look at my photos online. My photos are honest, yes, but not everything. I don't take them to define me, or to be beautiful. I take them for two reasons: to help myself better understand the ways in which I feel, and react to what's happening in my life and to try to create something that the viewer, you, can relate to and have a reaction to. I post my photos to the internet so that I can have a dialogue about my life and share with those who share with me. And also as a type of record of what goes on in my head. I frequently go back through my Flickr stream and remember what I was going through during a certain month, or I can look at a photo and know what I was feeling on that certain day.
Taking self-portraits for me is so much more than a practice in vanity. And posting them online is so much more than a self-serving search for praise. If no one, not a single person commented on my photos, so what? I wouldn't stop taking them. But because you do comment, I grow more, I learn more, I appreciate more, I experience more - both as a photographer and as a person.
Oh my god, to say I have low self-esteem...that is just beyond me. Once, I had a boyfriend who told me that his favourite thing about me was how humble I was. But I think I may have lost that somewhere along the way, hahaha. But low self-esteem? Hm. Mind you, we aren't really seeing eye-to-eye on things, no matter what it's about lately. But I found it hard to explain to him why I do what I do, and I found it hard to argue with him about something he thought he had so right. As if it was some big revelation to me, "Katie I hate to tell you, but you have low self-esteem." How do I argue something that someone thinks is a dark secret revealed?
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

amanda bruns


site | myspace

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

katie west


flickr
myspace
livejournal
modelmayhem
jpgmag



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Lauren Bentley



new website can be seen here
and the flickr account here

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Monday, January 21, 2008

grigor galitsin

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

juergen teller


An extract from Specialten DVD Magazine issue #20.Interview in full appears on Specialten Magazine issue #20.specialten.com





Marc by Marc Jacobs s/s 2008


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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

hendrik kerstens


hendrik kerstens

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Monday, June 04, 2007

grigori galitsin (Григорий Галицын )


Irina Aleksandrovnoj Pischasovoj
Ириной Александровной Писчасовой
aka valentina
galitsin site was closed (http://www.volga34.ru/news.php?id=2412)due to his prison

Grigori Galitsin is a world-renowned photographer from Volgograd, Russia. His work has appeared on numerous websites and magazines for many years and it is universally respected as pure, pristine, and sensuous. In many ways, Grigori Galitsin is a pioneer of a certain style of photography - we like to call it "romantic." His young models are always beautiful, his settings are idyllic, the moods his photos evoke are soft, sensuous, and somewhat mystical. A Galitsin photo seems almost lifted out of our dreams. Grigori has been involved in art in one way or another most of his life. Working in painting, video, and photography, he has tirelessly expressed his vision of a purer, more sumptuous world. He was the winner of the Master Kodak Exhibition in 1997.
Grigori Galitsin, born in December 1957 in the region of the Black Sea, visited the Academy Of Arts in St. Petersburg and lives now in Volgograd. The academy imparted a good knowledge to him but also spoiled his pleasure in painting nudes. After 6 years of practice it became boring routine. Through photography it came to another approximation to the presentation of the human nude. He thinks, that his grandfather has predestined his way as an artist when he bought a Leica camera from the German army in 1947. His exhibitions meet with international response.
There is always someone ahead of others in any human endeavor. Been the first is admirable. Galitsin first published his images in 1996 on the best erotic website of that time. This site was created by a poet, philosopher, photographer, women admirer and an eminent person. Since Galitsin's shots were published the income of this website has been continually increasing. Even now this site is the sample of style purity.
Galitsin started working with another site in 1998. It dominated erotic art in recent years. This story is amusing and instructive. It is worth being told. It sure will be told. Two great men met - a great producer and a great photographer. They gave life to a rapidly growing website. Many of Galitsin's ideas were used on that site. All headbands, design ideas and banners were based on the best of Galitsin's shoots. Models like Katia, Julia and Valentina became the favorites of those, who worship beauty and innocence. Many series became exemplars and started a new standard in the art of erotica. Over 25 photographers are working there now, but subscribers keep asking for more new shots.
in wikipedia

links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Galitsin
http://www.photoforum.ru/user/104/index.en.html
http://www.hermansky-books.com/index.php?section=detail&groupname=nudes&id=galitsins_angels
http://web.archive.org/web/20040605133413/www.galitsin-news.com/newsletter.php?id=2

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Friday, April 13, 2007

german saez



german saez - site - flickr - fotos privadas - fotoblog

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sita mae edwards

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tony stamolis



frezno

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jlndrr + glitch art


"This series is part of an ongoing research on visual ways to dissolve pornographic imagery in abstraction and absurd." says flickr user jlndrr - website

also take a look at glitches group

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Olivier Roller


ludivigne sagnier in festival de cannes 2006

bourgeoise

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vanessa beecroft


vanessa Beecroft

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Carrie Levy


book - 51 months
Carrie Levy: Domestic Stages
paulkopeking gal
http://www.foto8.com/item--51-Months-by-Carrie-Levy--trolley_51months.html

"My photography focuses on questions of identity and the photographic image itself. My images force the viewer to identify the subject through his or her bodily characteristics. By exploring the average body, I am highlighting the real for the beholder to see the strangeness of the ordinary. This series, 'Domestic Stages', investigates how we deal with identity when you are not exposed to facial details and how the body becomes a gaze which does not see. "

BA Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA, 2000

Work Experience
Photo Editor, Newsweek, New York, USA, 2001-03; Assistant Photo Editor, Discover Magazine, New York, USA, 2000; Assistant Photo Editor, Architecture Magazine, New York, USA, 2000

Exhibitions
'Summer Salon', Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, USA, 2005; 'The Collection of Allen B. Thomas', North Carolina Museum of Modern Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 2005; 'Domestic Stages', Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, USA, 2005

t: 020 7243 3483
t: +91 77148451
e: kidclevy@hotmail.com
e: carrie.levy@alumni.rca.ac.uk

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alice wells


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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Clayton Cubitt

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rasmus mogensen

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Friday, March 16, 2007

javel

javel - photographer, model & performer


photographed by pascal renoux, davy jourget, laurent seyller, bleuz, lynn sk, philippe booch , nuckstudio, milena lausecker, ii1 , etc
also works @ http://princesse-javel.deviantart.com/

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