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Photographer-cum-provocateur David LaChapelle just launched his latest exhibit, American Jesus, at Chelsea’s Paul Kasmin Gallery. LaChapelle has been pushing the envelope with a vast line of artists, media personas, and diplomats leaving their trust in his controversial hands. His American Jesus is none other than pop culture’s most tragic martyr, longtime friend and holy prince of pop Michael Jackson interpreted with the LaChapelle fantasy -cartoonish fingerprint on it.
Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea until September 18th.

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For the lingerie brand Princesse Tam-Tam, autumn-winter 2009/10 will be fresh and cheerful. To photograph its collection, Princesse Tam-Tam has called on fashion photographer Solve Sundsbo.
A Norwegian photographer accustomed to fashion magazines, Solve Sundsbo has brought a breath of fresh air to the winter collections of the lingerie label. The theme is ‘Warhol me!’, which highlights colour and the customization of the range.

Taken in wide angle, the images play with the natural and the sophisticated with models who appear to be frozen in their scene. Otherwise features are left to speak for themselves: bright colours, surprising leopard prints and lace.

By Jonathan Fulwell (Source: C. Vautard)

The Norwegian photographer, who has shot ads for Yves Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana and fashion features for Harper’s Bazaar and W, has paired with the creative studio-clothing label Surface to Air on a line of silk tops, dresses and oversize satchels, printed with three of his works.

Surface to Air X Solve Sundsbo bag, $200 at surface2airparis.com. Other pieces from the collection available at Barneys New York.“We were looking for images that could create surprising pieces,” said Aldric Speer, Surface to Air’s brand designer. Certainly nothing gives punch to an amorphous sac quite like Mr. Sundsbo’s film still of a scarlet macaw in midflight. source : the New york times

Aviation seems to be quite a popular inspiration among the magazine editorials this season, thanks to all the leather, jumpers and of course Hermes.

New Pull&Bear collection campaign was inspired by Second Word War and Aviation

The latest, “7e Ciel” from French Numéro photographed by Luciana Val and Franco Musso

Peter Lindberg for BAZAAR US July 2009.

On 30 April, Christian Hiltawsky will open his new gallery space, in the heart of Berlin Mitte, with photographs by Frank Horvat (*1928), who played an important role in the history of fashion photography. The gallerist has already proven his knowledge of photography art with many years of experience as the head of the aplanat galerie für fotografie in Hamburg.

The private view is on 30 April from 7pm onwards. Dr. Matthias Harder, Curator of the Helmut Newton Trust, will be giving a talk, attended by the photographer himself. On 1 May at 7pm, there will be a reading and slide show, by Ingrid Mylo and Frank Horvat to introduce the “Masken und Mandarinen” (masks and mandarins) book project.

Frank Horvat – Images of the 50s and 60s – 1 May – 13 June 2009

Galerie Hiltawsky
Tucholskystraße 41, 10117 Berlin
www.hiltawsky.com

Miles Aldridge’s pictures describe a surprisingly glossy and electromagnetic pulsating world, full of smooth, illuminated models and venomous LSD colour tones. With his phosphorescent compositions and mystical situations, he balances between contemporary and figurative photography.

His latest book “Miles Aldride: Pictures Photographs” will be released this spring by Steidl. MILES ALDRIDGE – Doll Face 2 April – 10 May, 2009 Hamiltons Gallery 13 Carlos Place, London W1K 2EU

Our favourite model and femme fatale, Lara Stone, gets the royal treatment in the February issue of Vogue Paris. Lara Stone for your eyes only, through the lense of Peter Lindbergh, Hedi Slimane or Nan Goldin. Very Special. Hot. Wow.

Dazed presents Selfish – a unique proposition dreamed up by Rankin’s assistants based upon featured photographer Damien Fry’s simple premise that “people are all ultimately selfish”. As such, it explores the power dynamic between the photographer and their subject. “The photographer is the director and the executioner,” explains Fry. “In a society where we are all driven to be more selfish and want more, we are the people who show you visually what you are supposed to want, and how you can go about getting it.”

All of the work exhibited will riff on this theme, with each photographer annexing their own allocated area of the gallery for whatever purpose they desire. We can’t really give away any more than that, as they’re all keeping their ideas very close to their chests – which is pretty selfish…

A book signing by Patrick Demarchelier at Colette, Paris

Saturay 27 September, from 5-6pm – Colette, 213 rue Saint Honoré, 75001, Paris

Born outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with Harper’s Bazaar/Hearst Publications. His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others. He was the 2007 recipient of the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He lives and works in New York.

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Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø is currently showing some of his works at colette in Paris. He is making his solo debut in the French capital of Maggazine like Numéro and at one of the world’s most famous shopping destinations, colette. Sundsbo’s work for this solo exhibition features vivid photographs of feathers that pop against the backgrounds of the images, as well as short films that are showing throughout colette. He says they’re the blend of a lifelong love of nature documentaries and his later work in fashion: “Birds have a sartorial quality which, in a sense, is a pure form of fashion.”

Exhibition @ Colette paris until the 27 of September