Off the Shelf

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Um. So much for every week. What can I say – life gets in the way sometimes. (Life is also getting in the way of very attentive photoshop work – or having the patience to mess with this ridiculously annoying "improved" Blogger platform...sorry.) Anyway, really feeling Glen Luchford lately, and this one has been on heavy rotation.

Glen Luchford (Steidl, 2009).

Purely by coincidence, this morning AnOther magazine posted a piece on Glen Luchford's new book, Damaged Negatives (Dashwood, forthcoming in December). Read about it here. 

Butterfly Effect

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Another one I've been meaning to post for a while. One of my favorite images from the Spring/Summer 2012 campaigns.  

Hermès Spring/Summer 2012. 

(Bette Franke shot by Nathaniel Goldberg)

Image of the Day

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Robert Adams, Kerstin Enjoying the Wind, 

East of Keota, Colorado, 1969. 

As recently reported by Carol Vogel in the NY Times,

Adams has selected 169 prints from his personal 

collection, covering the span of his career, for acquisition 

by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Two comments:

1. This is the kind of photo that made me pine for the West when we lived on the East Coast.
2. Every time I start thinking about paring down my 7-day subscription to the Times, I get the Friday arts section and change my mind.

Best Foot Forward

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I'm a little lukewarm on the heel, and they are definitely better in brown, but from the front? Dope.

Miu Miu Bow Front Mid Boot, 

$990 on pre-order at Nordstrom.

Postmodern Gothic

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Excerpt from the Quay Brothers' Street of Crocodiles (1986). 

The short is on view now at MoMA as part of "On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets," a retrospective of the animators'  (identical twins born in Pennsylvania) work. Review by Roberta Smith at the New York Times.

Nightcrawler

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10 Crosby Derek Lam, Resort 2013.

(Especially love the collars.)

via style.com

Image of the Day

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Zanele Muholi,  

Sunday Francis Mdlankomo, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, 2011.

Part of "tête-à-tête," a group show of portraiture by African and American artists, up through August 24 at Yancey Richardson, NYC.

Training Day

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I could not care less about the Dolphins (sorry, Miami) but I'm so stoked to have football season back.

 

Hard Knocks season 7 on HBO. 

Image of the Day

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Sucia Island, San Juans, July 2012.

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White Heat

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Been meaning to post this forever. Photography by Mario Sorrenti, styling by Camilla Nickerson, location: Marfa, TX. From the February 2010 issue of W. Enough said.

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Best Foot Forward

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I've been collecting inspiration for a styling project and have been thinking about Ricardo Tisci's Fall 2008 ready-to-wear collection for Givenchy. These would fit right in.

Nicholas Kirkwood suede shoe-boots with pleated frill, 

$1008 through farfetch.

Givenchy Fall 2008 RTW. 
style.com

Image of the Day

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Anna Piaggi (1931-2012), in the 1970s. 

Photograph by Wayne Stambler, 

via the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Below: a selection from Lagerfeld's Sketchbook (1986), a collection of sketches by Karl Lagerfeld chronicling 10+ years of Piaggi's inimitable style.

Slideshow at style.com.

"So I think I'm not going to go . . . because I'd rather kill myself."

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I am in love with this show already, and I've only seen the "premiere preview." The trailer doesn't do it justice. Serious future guilty pleasure. And just in time for gallery season!

"Gallery Girls" on Bravo. 

Premieres Aug. 13. An auspicious date.

Image of the Day

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Gore Vidal (Oct. 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012) in 1947.

Photograph by Jerry Cooke / Time & Life Pictures