Young Fang takes a rest after a particularly vigorous session at the scratching post.
Jean Shrimpton, early '60s, by photographer Brian Duffy
John Lennon
Grace Coddington, 1960
William S. Burroughs, 1960
Fashion photo for Queen Magazine, 1965
Nina Simone with her daughter Simone, 1965
"How to undress in front of your husband" series with Amanda Lear and a Panton chair
David Bowie as Aladdin Sane, 1973
The Foundation was a long-running night started in the mid-'90s by Sureshot, Supreme, Soul and myself at a bar in downtown Seattle called the Art Bar. Sureshot, Supreme and I deejayed a bunch of different places (Re-Bar, Crocodile, etc.) to finance our record label, Conception Records, but with Soul promoting, it took off. At first it was called Nitty Gritty because we were playing rare groove, but after awhile it morphed into almost all hip-hop, and we called it The Foundation (the ad-lib at the beginning of the Group Home song "Tha Realness" made me think of it). A bunch of different people started spinning with us and the night got huge – I would always try to spin first so I could play underground stuff that wouldn't really work for the dance floor later on. At one point they showed the flyer (designed by Modern Dog) on MTV because it was one of the longest running hip-hop nights in the country. Anyway, long story short, Emily and I moved to New York in 1999 and it went on for several years after that. Tuesday night the original cast of characters re-unites at the Lodge. It will be a fun party, you should come over.
Downtown Seattle before the Great Fire. Photo by Peterson & Bro., c.1883.
The Great Fire, June 6, 1889.
Downtown Seattle after the Great Fire
Emily at Pacific Standard HQ.
Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a pioneer of American avant garde film – the first recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant for "creative work in the field of motion pictures." In 1943 she collaborated with her husband, Alexander Hammid, on a short film entitled Meshes of the Afternoon. I wasn't familiar with it until now but it has clearly influenced many filmmakers and photographers over the years. Here it is: 
Cushnie et Ochs Fall/Winter 2010 campaign photos by Chadwick Tyler. I love how dark this is while at the same time capturing the great textures in the clothing. This is not an easy thing to do well with a camera and light.
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75-year-old photographer Paul Jasmin grew up in Helena, Montana, but found himself attracted to the glow of Los Angeles from a young age. His new book, California Dreaming (from which the photos above and below are taken) captures a warmth, intimacy, and sense of possibility in the L.A. people and places it features.
"You can paint with a camera," Jasmin says. "That’s what I try to do with photography... it’s always about making something romantic of reality. I grew up in a housing project in Montana but to me it was heaven because I was always dreaming."
United Nude Frame shoe, $545. 
Susan Sontag at a symposium at the
Louise Bourgeois with her marble sculpture Eye to Eye, 1970. Bourgeois died yesterday at the age of 98. “Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases,” writes Holland Cotter. “But from first to last they shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world.” Visit nytimes.com to read Cotter's obituary and see a slideshow of Bourgeois's work.
Photographs by Guy Bourdin from the book Guy Bourdin Polaroids (Editions Xavier Barral).
Polaroids is out of print but you can see more images at the publisher's website and search for it at Abe Books. A new 272-page book on Bourdin by Shelley Verthime and Pascal Dangin, In Between, is out today from Steidl.
