Tag: photography
Javier Gomez- ‘Sensual Nature.’
As the cabs honked their horns and screeched impatiently across the gravel down at Wall street, all important men suited up in smart business suits speed-walked home -- probably to nurse a martini with their housewives. Standing under the...
Ian Shive: Violent Beauty.
Meeting Ian Shive at his book release party at Su Casa in the West Village was as inspiring as viewing his photos. He is an urban myth come to life. After working for eight years in marketing for Columbia...
Trudy Miller headlines the Art of Fashion.
Mid-runway outfit changes and exhibits of high-quality photography and fashion illustration comprised the August 14, 2009, Art of Fashion in Webster Hall’s Marlin Room. That alongside with pirouetting models and surreal depictions of vixens and heroines lent a sense...
40th anniversary of Woodstock at the Morrison Hotel Art Gallery.
The revolution has been commoditized. Luckily, for those of us who could not have afforded the time to be born into a generation who actually achieved their dreams, it is now on sale.
The Morrison Hotel Art Gallery’s 40th Anniversary...
Should you care that Annie Leibovitz is going broke?
Why is the NYT’s crying over a photographer who gets paid millions? The lopsided affections of the media.
In the opening lines in this weekend’s fashion and style section of the NYT”s, the Times laments (with no sense of sartorial...
Art of Fashion- discovering beauty in the rough.
Webster Hall was just like I once remembered it; glittery disco ball, flashing lights, sideways glances and heart-pounding music blaring out of speakers. The crowd was familiar, with the occasional hipsters, the model-esque women clomping around in their platform...
Culture for Camera…
There’s a scene in the seminal movie ‘La Dolce Vita ‘ (directed by Federico Fellini)where the eponymous hero and obvious dilettante Marcello must decide between his love for the jealous girlfriend and the gorgeous star – played by Swedish...
Putting on the Ritz in tribute to the Gordon Parks Foundation.
Once in a while the titans of media, design, fashion, photography will come to pay homage to those who have excelled in bringing awareness and valor to the arts. Tuesday night was one of those evenings…
In tribute to a...
High Cheekbones only at the National Arts Council.
Whether by design or scheming dogma the wonderful Andrea Tese brought a certain panache to Monday night’s young innovative awards (which she coincidentally won) at the National Arts Council. Standing in front of her daring pictures and equally daring...
Melanie Bonajo Book Launch; a loss for words.
Photography by Paul WR Perez.
A large, yellow school bus lumbers past the fire escapes of Brooklyn tenement buildings.
Hebrew letters sprawl across its side, seemingly strange in the urban corner of Williamsburg where, two blocks ago, Bedford Avenue buzzed with...
Photographers who try to steal journalists ex girlfriends at Tribeca’s Pro Photo Carnaval.
"Photographers are damned fine people and make up a hell of a party crew," I wrote in my notepad, having already been drinking for several hours before I arrived at Carnaval Night. The Brazilian-themed event, sponsored by several camera...
Miss Subway Girl: Then and Now.
Beauty. It is the thing that our society craves and rewards. In Fiona Gardner’s upcoming photo exhibit ‘Meet Miss Subway,’ at Rush Gallery we are treated to an intriguing dialogue on the passage of time, the idealization of youth,...
Say ‘Cheese’- Glitterati Pop-up Shop Explores Our Identities.
Tuesday night, artists, musicians, supporters, and friends gathered at Rush Arts Gallery on West 26th to take part in Glitterati Magazine Nicholas Fahey’s “Your Portrait Project.” Interestingly enough, the art goers also seemed to have an underlying anchor -...
The Darker the Better: A chat with Bohemian Songstress Alexa Wilding.
Bohemian songstress Alexa Wilding has us under her spell. She seduced us at the ‘Ivana HELSINKI Dress-Go-Around.’ She mesmerized us during her show at the Highline Ballroom. And after chatting with this indie-princess in her charming Brooklyn loft, well,...
Jennifer Macfarlane: A snapshot of women in captivity.
In most parts of the world a woman is free. Free to express herself, be aware of herself, free to become who she needs to be. That all changes when you venture to the third world when all a...
