When I was reviewing Good Luck Chuck (like there was something monumental to say). I stumbled upon this promotional poster with reference to the Issue 335 cover of the Rolling Stone.
Taken on the morning of December 8, 1980, this was one of the last photographs of Lennon, who was murdered by a deranged fan (hours) later in the day.
It was the best cover since 1965.
The earliest encounter with her is from a little snippet in the Time magazine about her Wizard of Oz themed shoots in a fashion editorial for Vogue US. Even if that image in the article is about 100x200 pixels, I really want to see that photo because there is some kind of glamour and beauty.
Is it the light techniques? The lens? Or something else? Maybe it's the Lennon-Ono thing?
I do like to think, as I've seen and read elsewhere and everywhere, that artists tend to give it their all when he knows the character personally, as a conversation partner, a casual friend, or even a fan.
That way, the artist can do anything with the subject without making the subject feel violated and all that lawsuit jazz.
Recently, while watching the Tanioco siblings in Mel and Joey (artistic siblings). They're not really geniuses even if they got awards from international competitions, they got that status because they have an art tutor since they were kids and their rich. My mom and I got the conclusion that Art is innate in every person and that if a person said that he can't draw in my presence, I'll kill him and mash his head.
Annie is special because she did not have any direct contacts with photography except being admitted to the San Francisco Art Institute. She only got interested in it when she takes pics of her family in Japan (she's a military brat).
After being in Israel for months in 1969 doing good of her photographic talent, she then moved to USA in 1970 and became involved with the Rolling Stone. Jann Wenner named her then chief photographer in 1973 until 1983 when she joined Vanity Fair making portraits.
Lately, she added another photo in a very glamorous series of ad campaigns entitled Year of a Million Dreams. Latest Gallery.
Here are some of her works from Vouge:
Wizard of Oz:
The shots consists of Kiera Knightley as Dorothy with various artists in different fields. If you're smart enough, you'll figure out how these go together and which was used in the cover. 3rd image was the one being talked about above. Please note that Dorothy was wearing different white dresses from a verity of designers. More from style.com
Penn State Marching Band, Kara Walker as the good witch(Munchkin Land), sculptor Jasper Johns (lion) and painter John Currin (Tin Man) across the poppy field to Emerald City, musician Brice Marden as scarecrow(the hat was his own), Artist Kiki Smith as the wicked witch
Alice in Wonderland:
Natalia Vodianova is Alice accompanied with an ensemble of fashion designers and actors. She wears a variety of blue dresses by the designers in the photo with her. More from style.com
Jean Paul Galtier as Chesire Cat, Stephen Jones as Mad Hatter and Christian Laroix as March Hare (he designed the gown), Donatella Versace (Versace) as Gryphon and Rupert Everett as Mock Turtle, Ton Ford as White Rabbit
Helmut Lang as portrait on wall, Karl Lagerfelt (Chanel) as the Dutchess, Rolf Snoeren, left, and Viktor Horsting (Viktor & Rolf) as Tweedle duo, John Galliano (Dior) as Queen and Alexis Roche as king, Marc Jacobs as The Caterpillar
Detail of Disney Works are posted on these Blogs:
2007 Releases (1, 2)
2008 Releases (four photos, another photo)
I have no affiliates with any company whatsoever. these images are not mine.
Sources:
photobucket.com
style.com
rollingstone.com
wikipedia.com
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