Richard Warren is one New York's most desirable fashion photographers. He assisted Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmet Newton, Bill King and Denis Piel in the 1980's and has learned to master the art of fashion photography. His photography has appeared in over fifty fashion magazines including Australian Vogue, Bazaar Italia, Zink, Vanity Fair. He has worked with many fashion models including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Brooke Shields and more recently Nicole Trunfio, Laryssa Castro and others.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Paolo Roversi - master of fashion
Paolo Roversi is known internationally for his romantic, intense, and ethereal fashion images and portraits, photographs that quiver on the edge of their own seemingly fragile existence. A typical Roversi picture appears as if captured in the process of becoming--it develops on the page before our very eyes or, depending on perspective, it might simply vanish into the ether. Since 1980 Roversi has worked primarily with 8-by-10 inch Polaroids, and rarely on location. Studio is a milestone in his burgeoning bibliography. Designed as a series of 60 gatefolds, at first glance the book appears to be a collection of empty pages. The experience of looking is akin to that of peeling away the leaf from a Polaroid--out of the blackness an image is revealed as if by magic. In images that represent nearly two decades of work, the collection offers a self-portrait of the artist and a window into the place where he creates his art. These photographs are a mix of both the published and the highly personal, but all have the intimacy engendered by that place where Roversi feels most at home
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