Marc Jacobs Resort 2013 - Just Clownin' Around

(via Fashionologie)

Inspiration taken from Cindy Sherman's 2003-4 Clown Series... Somewhat terrifying!

Penelope's Hungry Eyes

Annie Leibovitz, Sagaponack, New York, 1991

Bill Brandt, London, 1980

Cindy Sherman

Dennis Hopper, Venice, California, 1988

Gerhard Richter

Horst P. Horst

Leni Riefenstahl

Lillian Bassman, NYC, 1999

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Lucas Samaras, NYC, 1986

Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1988

Photographer Abe Frajndlich undertook to photograph the legends within his own craft back in 1988, when he was commissioned by Life Magazine to take portraits of the “Grandes Dames” of photography. This soon expanded to include the “Old Boys” as well, and thenceforth became an all-encompassing 30-year quest, requiring as much patience and persistence as that shown by Penelope during Odysseus’s epic journey home. The result is a comprehensive compendium of key figures in photography from the last 50-years, grouped under a title that directly references the Homeric flavour Frajndlich gave to his mission - Penelope's Hungry Eyes. (Taken from AnOther by Tish Wrigley)

Cindy Sherman

(via Form is Void)

Robert Mapplethorpe Curated by Sofia Coppola

Following the footsteps of Cindy Sherman (for the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York in 2003) and David Hockney (presented at Alison Jacques Gallery, London in 2005), Sofia Coppola has curated her selection of images taken from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The exhibition is a far cry from the S&M imagery Mapplethorpe became famed for, instead it leans towards the delicate contemplations of flora, fauna and empowered women (notably not dissimilar to Coppola's own stylistics and narrative subjects). These rarely seen photographs add an unexplored, almost unknown side of the artist. I just wish I could see it in its entirety.

Robert Mapplethorpe Curated by Sofia Coppola, showing until 7th January at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Re-Make & Re-Do

Grant Wood's “American Gothic” by Jesse John Hunniford

Edward Hopper's “Automata” by Or Eitan

Nan Goldin's “Christmas at the Other Side” by Claudia Phares

Henri Cartier-Bresson's “Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932″ by Ollie Jarman

Picasso's “Dora Maar Seated” by Lujian Zeta Zee

“Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs” (Unknown Artist) by Emile Barret

Nickolas Muray's “Portrait of Frida Kahlo” by Danilo Ursini

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix's “Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” by Stephan Hoffman & SoYeon Kim

Francis Bacon's “Study for Portrait” by Tanya Houghton

Edvard Munch's “The Day After” by Chloe Van Overmeir

Johannes Vermeer's “The Girl With The Pearl Earring” by Nienke Zondervan

Caravaggio's “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Stella Vula

Rodin's “The Metamorphoses of Ovid” by John Naccarato

Balthus' “Therese Revant” by Chloe Van Overmeir

Cindy Sherman's “Untitled Film Still #48″ by Louella Martin

(Courtesy of BOOOOOOOM!)