Thursday, July 29, 2010

THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS





JACK DRACULA

"Jack Dracula, the Marked Man, is embellished with 306 tattoos (estimated value: $6000), and although this work-in-progress conspicuously distinguishes him, he is living in seclusion and I have solemnly sworn not to reveal his whereabouts. There are 28 stars on his face as well as 4 eagles in varying postures, 6 greenish symbols shaped like doughnuts, a Maori mustache and a pair of trompe-l'oeil goggles. Under his hair is the winged cap of Mercury with a rose cluster across his crown. His first tattoo, about four years ago, was a hinge in the crook of his right arm, and now a bat nestles near his left collarbone, a 2-foot-wide eagle fies downward across his chest, a tiger and snake wrestle below his navel, a scorpion grasps a dollar sign on his right forearm, a werewolf stares from his kneecap and on the inside of his underlip in inscribed the name DRACULA. He is also adorned with winged dragons, a peacock, a geisha girl, a cigar-smoking skull in top hat, macabre butterflies, a hypodermic entitled Death Needle, a head of Christ, boats, swords, ghouls, chains, satyrs, cupids, penguins, The Horrible Three (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera); and one afternoon while I sat with him he put a small new rose on his thigh. There is also quite a lot of reading matter like I Love Money, Death Before Marriage, In Memory of Mother, Amor, Dolores, Barcelona Jack, Muerte, Sylvia, Theresa, the names of his three heroes - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney - and on his fingers the initials of some obscenity which his girlfriends were so good at deciphering that he finally converted the ones on his left hand into flowers.
Jack is tatooed simply because he wants to be."

Jack Dracula is one of 'five singular people who appear like metaphors somewhere further out than we do'
Diane Arbus 


The Full Circle
Harper's Bazaar November 1961
Photography & Text: Diane Arbus



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FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom posts on Diane Arbus

3/22/12 The Simplicity of Thought
3/21/12 Have A Great Day!
1/25/12 The Vertical Journey
12/31/11 Happy New Year
11/24/11 The Young Heiresses
8/14/11 Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones
7/12/11 The Full Circle:Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay
5/17/11 As You Desire Me
4/25/11 The Full Circle: Max Maxwell Landar
2/14/11 The Couple
1/30/11 She's As Mae West As Ever: Mae West
10/16/10 The Full Circle: William Mack
9/25/10 Mrs. T. Charlton Henry
9/05/10 Fashion Independents On Marriage
8/20/10 The Real Miss Cora Pratt
8/20/10 Miss Cora Pratt
7/29/10 The Full Circle: Jack Dracula
7/27/10 Thank Heaven For Little Girls
7/26/10 Petal Pink For Little Parties
5/24/10 Tokyo Rose

ASIAN ARTISTS VISITING AMERICA FROM INDIA

MARILYN SILVERSTONE

Harper's Bazaar 1961



Music De-Phazz






THE THREE GRACES OF YOU

Harper’s

Bazaar


April 1962


The Three Graces – Of You

Photography Saul Leiter


A lovely face



an elegant strength



the graceful gesture



Photography


Lillian  Bassman   Louis Faurer   Donald Hunstein   Frank Horvat   Tom Kublin   Saul Leiter
Melvin Sokolsky


Illustration






Brunetta
Luciana Roselli


Photography Saul Leiter


The Young Perfectionist Visits The Virgin Islands Island fashions for day and night in white

Water-lily whites sheer sleep culottes the white sleep shift demitasse slip fitted gown


Dior Soft Paris Nights


Paris Nights

Lanvin-Castrillo

Photography Tom Kublin
 Dessès Lanvin-Castillo Grès Patou



Mainbocher Evenings


Givenchy The Princess Coat The Center-fold Skirt


Balenciaga The Bigger-topped Suit The Bias Coat Dress


The Great Belt


The Return of the Shawl


The Dress and Shawl in Jersey The Romantic Shawl Romantic Revival Shawls


Dresses and suits


Galanos Norman Norell Davidow Harry Frechtel Rivero y Mojena


False and Fabulous

Photography Melvin Sokolsky


Ropes of Pearls Daytime Pearls Evening Pearls


The Prettiest Raincoats


Peck and Peck Lawrence of London Capel Aquascutum Sherbrooke


Flying in the Airweight Coats and Suits
Photography Saul Leiter

Well Knit Spring The Ensemble Look

Photography Saul Leiter


Whimsy From Italian Boutiques


Italian Couture for the Teen Years Wanda Roveda of Milan


Lingerie Dresses for Little Ones


Beauty


How to become a Natural Beauty The Vitality Diet for the Life You Live


A view of the American Cars



A Photographic Essay by Donald Hunstein



Worth of Rue de la Paix

Aubrey Beardsley Olive Velvet ornamented with cut steel in backgammon points
1895


America’s distinguished poet Marianne Moore sets down her impressions of the fourty-five intricate and glamorous constructions from Charles Frederick Worth the founder of the French Haute Couture to be on exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.


Theodore Roethke


“Three Love Poems”


Alain Robbe-Grillet


His views on the art of the cinema and a scene from his first film script “Last Year at Marienbad.”


Mary H. Caldwalader


“The Osmic Urge.”


Claire Nicolas White


“Defense of Stinginess.”


William Weaver


“Music Tour of Europe.”



Wednesday, July 28, 2010

IT'S A CINCH

the great belt


Saul Leiter

Harper's Bazaar April, 1962

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Harper’s



Bazaar


Great


Exaggerations


For Gala


Evenings:



45 Pages of


Brilliant


Fashions


November 1962




Photography:


Melvin Sokolsky


                                    

William Claxton

William Claxton “The Silent Thrillers” – Claxton stages and photographs today’s thrillers inspired by the originals at the Movieland Wax Museum.



 Robert Frank
Robert Frank photographs Edgar Varèse and Willem de Kooning on four pages

HIRO
Mink and Seal: Fur Fashions for the Country. Photography by Hiro

Saul Leiter

Richard Avedon
Louis Faurer



Illustration:

















WARHOL




Katherina Denzinger


Literary:

Cyril Connolly – “Covetousness”



Maria Dermoût – “The Bracelet”



Anthony Storr – “What is Psychological Maturity?”

Emmanuel Mounier, French Catholic intellectual – founder of the journal Esprit writes the text that accompanies Andy Warhol’s illustrations for “Deus ex Machina"
WARHOL


Melvin Sokolsky (American, 1933)


Great Exaggerations:

Classic Sokolsky studio images with the models in high-fashion against an oyster-hued backdrop

“Every summer, my father used to take a picture of us, he says. We would go out to a place called Spring Valley. He had a box camera, and took pictures of me, my brother and my mother. Those pictures went into an album every year, and Sokolsky remembers, at age 14, something occurred to me. The pictures from year to year somehow looked different. I realized that something was happening between the manufacturing of the film and the processing at the drugstore that was making the images look different. There was a marked difference between those taken when I was six until the time I was 12."


He concluded that the manufacturer was constantly changing the film, which he called ‘The emulsion of the day,’ and this opened up many ideas for him.


Most important on the agenda was to develop a personal palette and vision. Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but was spurred on by his creative eye and the passion he developed for the medium. He began experimenting with photography in a determined and personal manner.


From: The Imagined Spaces of Melvin Sokolsky


By Lynne Eodice
Double Exposure Cover Archives
Oct 1, 2008 A Separate Reality


http://www.doubleexposure.com/CoverStory_Sokolsky.shtml


Melvin Sokolsky photographs evening costumes by Christian Dior – New York, Galanos, Jane Derby, Sarmi, Norman Norell, Scassi, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Gustave Tassell, Herbert Sondheim, Pattullo- Jo Copeland, Monte-Sano and Pruzan

Coiffures for evening fashions by Mr. Enny of Enny of Italy Salon, New York; Alexander of Paris


Nightfall: The Opulent Ensemble…Fine Lines from Werle; Jean Louis; Helen Rose. Photograhy by Louis Faurer

Robert Frank photographs Edgar Varèse and Willem de Kooning on four pages

Deux Ex Machina – Andrew Warhol and Emmanuel Mounier… commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar to make a visual comment on the phenomenon of the American motorcar, Andy Warhol, continuing his experimentation in “commonism, “ or the art of giving the familiar a supra-familiarity.

WARHOL





Diane Arbus

Thank Heaven For Little Girls...



Great Exaggerations for Gala Evenings
Harper's Bazaar November 1962



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Monday, July 26, 2010

Coming Soon: The Magical Photography of Diane Arbus


Petal Pink for Little Parties
Diane Arbus
Harper's Bazaar Novermber 1962

In celebration of unfamiliar gems from the eyes of  Diane Arbus




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FROM THE ARCHIVE
devodotcom posts on Diane Arbus

3/22/12 The Simplicity of Thought
3/21/12 Have A Great Day!
1/25/12 The Vertical Journey
12/31/11 Happy New Year
11/24/11 The Young Heiresses
8/14/11 Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones
7/12/11 The Full Circle:Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay
5/17/11 As You Desire Me
4/25/11 The Full Circle: Max Maxwell Landar
2/14/11 The Couple
1/30/11 She's As Mae West As Ever: Mae West
10/16/10 The Full Circle: William Mack
9/25/10 Mrs. T. Charlton Henry
9/05/10 Fashion Independents On Marriage
8/20/10 The Real Miss Cora Pratt
8/20/10 Miss Cora Pratt
7/29/10 The Full Circle: Jack Dracula
7/27/10 Thank Heaven For Little Girls
7/26/10 Petal Pink For Little Parties
5/24/10 Tokyo Rose