“Be bold, be different, be impractical, be anything that asserts integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against creatures of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) had a brilliant aesthetic eye, which combined with his theatrical persona, ruthless ambition, and addiction to social progress kept him in the limelight for more than six decades. From […]
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Helmut Newton – Inspiration
Helmut Newton was born in Berlin on October 31, 1920 into a wealthy Jewish family, with the given name of Helmut Neustädter, which he used until he was 26 years old, when he would be called Helmut Newton. His father was a wealthy button maker. From a young age he was interested in photography and […]
Elizaveta Porodina – Inspiration
Elizaveta Porodina, is a fashion photographer, unlike any other fashion photographer. The artist’s visceral and surreal work reflects a path from a clinical psychologist to non-linear fashion photography work. In the last decade, she has gone from being a photographer in a Munich psychiatric hospital to shooting for brands like Louis Vuitton or Carolina Hererra. […]
Davide Sorrenti – Inspiration
It is not easy to talk briefly about the life and work of Davide Sorrenti. Davide picked up the camera at 18 and immediately became famous, but he only worked for a short time. He died in 1997 at the age of 20, from an illness. Her biography became a diary of the entire “heroine […]
Herb Ritts – Inspiration
He was an American fashion photographer and music video director, noted for his black-and-white photos and portraits in a style similar to classical Greek sculpture. Some of his most famous photos are both male and female nudes. His famous black and white portraits include celebrities such as Kofi Annan, Cindy Crawford, Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai […]
Juergen Teller – Inspiration
Juergen Teller’s work is recognizable by many. The cover of Sinnead O’Connor’s single Nothing Compares 2 You , but also portraits of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Björk, the Cocteau Twins, PJ Harvey, Vivienne Westwood and Kate Moss when she was only fifteen. This without forgetting the advertising campaigns of Marc Jacobs. Juergen Teller (Erlangen, […]
Peter Lindbergh – Inspiration
Known in the profession as “the honest one”, Peter Limberg was able to immortalize in his black and white photographs the essence of some of the most famous stars in the world of cinema and fashion. Such was the life of a name that is already a legend. In November 1944, with the whistle of […]