Randomly, an Aunt in Canada sent me this link that she’d heard of; it’s the collection of a man (Jamie Livingston) who took a Polaroid a day for 19 years, right up until the day he died. It’s a beautiful testament to photography and to keeping your eyes open in life.
See it, here. (And I suggest clicking on the new version where you can zoom and pan 5 year blocks at a time).
photo: screen shot from http://hughcrawford.addresszero.com/
Or for a nice review/summary on it you can go, here.
A Polaroid sheet from a beauty and hair editorial we did yesterday, working title is marble androids, or maybe robo-statues. Hair was by Sarah Potempa and M.U. by Meredith Baraf, both at The Wall Group. More to come on this once the film is souped and dried.
Photographer, Steve Steckly and girlfriend, Michael-Anne.
I enjoy this picture b/c it is a Polaroid, thus making it one of kind, and also b/c it is attributed to neither Steve nor myself. I believe it could only ever be attributed to our collective love of making photographs…indeed, it makes me think of the practice of working for works sake, even if often an abstraction, is wonderful and something to remind one self of from time to time.
photo: shot at Steve Steckly’s studio in Portland, OR. ©Steve Steckly and Graeme Mitchell, 2007.
Mr. Roversi, if you have a free moment this summer I’d like to visit with you, to drink an obscure vintage while watching the Seine meander through Paris, then go to shoot couture under the warm dusty lights in your studio, well well into the night, well into the models’ tired eyes, before finally retiring for a cigarette, a bite, and a talk about the caustic lingerings of a Polaroid’s smell.
p.s. okay, Paolo, this Vogue Italia “Storm” spread was tops as far as I’m concerned.
photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi
photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi
photo: Vogue Italia “Storm,” ©Paolo Roversi
(for everyone else, more at Paolo Roversi’s site and his rep’s, Vincent Simonet’s)
Polaroids from a spring editorial. Keep your eyes on the newsstands, should hit’em in May.
polaroid: ©Graeme Mitchell, 2007
polaroid: ©Graeme Mitchell, 2007
Details:
Styling: Anna Shimonis
M.U.: Meredith Baraf
Hair: Sarah Potempa
Model: Marissa w/ Elite
Location: Studio 814 (yes, a special thanks to Studio 814 who facilitated our every need.)