I have to admitt - 28 years old Raphael Dallaporta wasn´t familiar to me as being a great photographer. So, it´s natural that i was blown away when i saw his stunning underwater set-ups of dresses from Christian Lacroix, Givenchy, Chanel, Marizio Galante and Giorgio Armani for Stiletto Magazine. Couldn´t be more beautiful with topmodels and luxurious locations. For those who are in New York right now, don´t miss to see his work which is shown during Silverstein Photography Annual from 6th of Sebtember till October 11th.

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By accident I just flipped through the portfolio of Berlin based photographer Betti Fiegle.
…and when I looked at her “sticky faces” series there was one photo that irretrievably reminded me of on of Levi van Veluw´s early artpiece “Candystick”.

Van Veluw´s photos are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself in a one-man-process, not to be considered as portraits but as artpieces that document the history of a short creative process with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object. Betti Fiegle intelligibly translates the motive into the genre of fashion photography, brings lighting and make up to perfection and stages the candystick-theme in a joyous and bright mood.

I didn´t ask, but I guess, photographer Betti Fiegle got inspired by the art of young, Dutch artist Levi van Veluw.
Fortunately, there´s no question about “who did it better” - the genres are different, the staging too and while van Veluw prepares his work for exhibitions and gallery’s, Betti Fiegle probably predominantly does for advertising, magazines and books.

The left photo is from Levi van Veluw, the left one from Betti Fiegle.

April 12, 2008 - September 9, 2008. The Master is in town.
“F.C. Gundlach became a leading name in more than fourty years of photographic activities and through thousands of publications of his photos in German photography since 1945.

His works/photos have been published in dozens of magazines like Deutsche Illustrierte, Stern and Revue, Film und Frau, Brigitte and Annabell as well as Twen and Deutsch. Especially his fashion photography in Film und Frau, (1952 - 1966) and Brigitte, (1963 - 1986) shaped the picture of women in the young German republic decisively. Apart from his dominating fashion photography works there are articles and remarkable reportages and star portraits, the early photographs in the style of subjective photography and a pool of various travel photographs.

The extensive show includes valuable Vintage prints of key works in the F.C. Gundlach oevre and presents the variety/diversity of publication formats and layouts by means of numerous maganzines and in explicitly layouted catalogues of leading fashion designers.

An exhibition in line with the Triennale of Photography.”
Excerpt from Museum Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. Photos from fcgrundlach.de

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