http://graememitchell.com/blog/steven-klein Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://graememitchell.com/blog/steven-klein/comment-page-1#comment-8288 Terence Patrick Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:06:38 +0000 http://graememitchell.com/blog/?p=3443#comment-8288 Klein isn't one of my favorite photographers, at least in the sense that I feel inspired by his work, but he definitely gets my respect in terms of his defined vision. That he was able to wrangle two leopards and get a model to dangle herself in front of them while he's safely behind a fence says a lot about his production abilities. Klein isn’t one of my favorite photographers, at least in the sense that I feel inspired by his work, but he definitely gets my respect in terms of his defined vision. That he was able to wrangle two leopards and get a model to dangle herself in front of them while he’s safely behind a fence says a lot about his production abilities.

]]> http://graememitchell.com/blog/steven-klein/comment-page-1#comment-8286 admin Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:05:54 +0000 http://graememitchell.com/blog/?p=3443#comment-8286 To further this topic, out for drinks last night w/ a major fashion agency account director, the talk of Klein's recent work came up. She commented that, Ugly is in....scary, gross, it's what everything is about right now, dark times, dark visions. Interesting, and while I didn't see it from such a macro-smart-level while doing this post, I agreed with her trend summation. Hard times don't have a lot of room for the Romantic. Work by Linbergh, Roversi, Luchford, etc, the guys that do pretty/beautiful, seems somewhat ingenuous when you feel like the worlds falling apart around you. Fashion and art is about fantasy, yes, but it's a fantasy that in ways needs to align with the collective reality to work...otherwise how's one to sympathize? To further this topic, out for drinks last night w/ a major fashion agency account director, the talk of Klein’s recent work came up. She commented that, Ugly is in….scary, gross, it’s what everything is about right now, dark times, dark visions. Interesting, and while I didn’t see it from such a macro-smart-level while doing this post, I agreed with her trend summation. Hard times don’t have a lot of room for the Romantic. Work by Linbergh, Roversi, Luchford, etc, the guys that do pretty/beautiful, seems somewhat ingenuous when you feel like the worlds falling apart around you. Fashion and art is about fantasy, yes, but it’s a fantasy that in ways needs to align with the collective reality to work…otherwise how’s one to sympathize?

]]> http://graememitchell.com/blog/steven-klein/comment-page-1#comment-8277 admin Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:59:37 +0000 http://graememitchell.com/blog/?p=3443#comment-8277 And I'll add a link to this excellent post by The Imagist, which I found immediately after I published this post: http://www.theimagist.com/node/2862. And I’ll add a link to this excellent post by The Imagist, which I found immediately after I published this post: http://www.theimagist.com/node/2862.

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