Rest in Peace Theirry Mugler
“Mugler met the German photographer Helmut Newton in Paris back in the 1970s, and was determined to commission images from Newton once he had enough money. However, on one early shoot in Mexico, tensions between the two led Mugler to branch out into photography himself. “He arrived there before me, and had already scouted out locations and taken some Polaroids,” Newton is quoted as saying in our book. “I had barely landed when he hit me with “Helmut, I want you to do the photos in such and such a way.” Well, I was absolutely enraged that anyone would tell me how to take my photos. I got to work, but we argued constantly, every day. Finally, I told him: “You know, your Polaroids are good, you have your own way of looking at things. All you need is a good assistant to set up your camera.”” Mugler took those words to heart.”
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“Imagine a universe where a green vase and a woman with fiery curls play a high-stakes game of visual chess…It’s like Bugarcheva handed us a front-row ticket to the grand opera of existence, complete with drama, romance, and a hint of existential pondering.” – ArtHunter
`With a career spanning over three decades, fashion photographer Guy Bourdin created pioneering and provocative images. Described in TIME Magazine as “tiptoeing to the edge of pornography but ending up at art,” Bourdin is best known for his iconoclastic photographs of fragmented women’s bodies, considered alternately objectifying and empowering. This distinct style emerged in the…
‘As any other Azeri family we had carpets everywhere – on the floor, on the walls, in each room. I had a carpet in my room, too. I was always playing with the patterns of the carpet imagining there were roads, trees, dragons etc. One day when my parents left for countryside, I decided to…
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