photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
‘They called me the hyacinth girl.’
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Od’ und leer das Meer.-from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
photo: Happy Valley, OR. 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Happy Valley, OR. 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Happy Valley, OR. 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Happy Valley, OR. 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
Model: Paolla Rahmeier w/ IMG
Stylist: Sarah Ellison Lewis w/ Bryan Bantry
MU: Katey Denno w/ The Wall Group
Hair: Seiji w/ The Wall Group
Photo Assistant: Blake Williams
Shot in the basement, Astoria, Queens
photo: Nude, 1925 40N, by Edward Weston (©Cole Weston)
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
A portrait of the designer, Tim Hamilton for Ponytail Magazine:
photo: Tim Hamilton, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
photo: Tim Hamilton, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
Model: Sonny w/ IMG
Stylist: Molly Williams
Make-Up: Jordy Poon (w/ Liz Bell)
Hair: Robert Lyon (w/ Atelier)
Manicurist: Kim Chiu (w/ Mark Edward Inc)
Photo Assistant: Blake Williams
Location: Fast Ashley’s Studios
A portrait of the director, Derek Cianfrance,
photo: Derek Cianfrance, Brooklyn NY, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
Harold Edgerton (the fellow you can thank for all that strobe gear you have laying around):
photo: by Harold Edgerton
And the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron (who did this stuff way way before any of us were even a consideration of existence’s):
photo: Come Alice by Julia Margaret Cameron
photo: Whisper of the Muse by Julia Margaret Cameron
The William Kentridge exhibit at the MOMA (see this!), notably the stop motion movies,
video: excerpt from Stereoscope (no sound), ©William Kentridge
Valerie Belin’s work, incredible black and white prints,
photo: ©Valerie Belin.
David Godblatt’s work, notably this portrait,
photo: Hillrow, Johannesburg, South Africa. ©David Goldblatt.
Karl Blossfeldt‘s work, so German, so exquisite, doing what much later the Becher‘s would do for industrial buildings,
photo: a picture of Monkshood by Karl Blossfeldt.
and also Blossfeldt’s uncanny resemblance to Dash Snow…
photo: a portrait of Karl Blossfeldt, 1895.
Finally, Nicholas Nixon‘s new book, Live, Love, Look, Last, which shows a 4 decade dedicated vision and Nixon’s adherence to something akin to a poetic form, showing how the singular becomes expansive, and furthermore how in the specific resides the universal,
photo: John Grady and Tesair Lauve, Cambridge, 1997, ©Nicholas Nixon.
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell
A portrait of the musician, Chris Maher, taken for his upcoming album release:
photo: Chris Maher, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Chris Maher, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
I was in LA recently and had an extra day and the chance to meet up w/ the painter, Lisa Solberg. We talked about art and book clubs and mexican food and schizophrenia and LA vs NYC and ski racing and light and taking things far and further and then further still.
We also had the chance to take her portrait:
photo: Lisa Solberg, LA, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
photo: Lisa Solberg, LA, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
And a gawldamn-good painting by Lisa:
painting: Land Red Down, 101×80,” by Lisa Solberg
Just finished Study by Tara St. James‘ FW10 book. Another beautiful season.  And we decided to put those flower still lives I did recently to use by making diptychs. These will be printed large on newsprint…love love working on stuff like this.
photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell
photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell
Hair and make-up: Jessa Blades
Model: Nykhor w/ Red