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Wednesday, May 9th 2012
“Mmmm… Exotic Plumage”, Vogue US, October 1987
Photographer : Wayne Maser
Model : Cindy Crawford( Source : Bellazon )
Who do you consider to be an influence on your work as a photographer?
Ellen von Unwerth: I’m a big fan of Helmut Newton, I like the strength and the sexiness of his pictures and also the kind of storytelling - there’s always something risqué about them and that’s what I always love in my own photography - to tell a little story. When it looks like there’s something happening before and after. And my other big influence is Jacques Henri Lartigue - he’s a French photographer from the twenties. It was more reportage style, like photographs of elegant women wearing these amazing clothes with their funny dogs with lots of movement, and they’re very, very charming pictures. So I kind of looked at both of them. You know they’re very opposite but I like the combination of both of them. And then, you know, I love movies. I love like old Italian cinema old, French movies, Hollywood movies,Marilyn Monroe, you know, like Billy Wilder, all these things influenced me a lot.
Keira Knightley - Vogue by Annie Leibovitz, December 2005
Just then the witch
to satisfy an itch
came riding on her broomstick
thumbin’ for a hitch!
Another current project! Bohemea and I are doing diptychs together, every two weeks or so. One simple prompt, fairy tale, led to us both doing Alice in Wonderland! You can see her version of the diptych here.
Diane Kruger in Prada at the 2012 Costume Gala, May 7th
This just made me even more excited to see what she’s going to wear as a juror member at Cannes.
