Category: Photography

• Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2013

  I came, I saw, I got lost. I always get lost in art fairs.  It usually happens when I want to take one last look at a piece, and then I get discombobulated, passing the same booth with the same disengaged galleriest pretending to look busy on their laptop (actually there was quite a bit…

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  January 27, 2013

  Art/Culture, Collecting, Contemporary Art, Photography

  Ace Gallery, Adam Belt, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, Catherine Wagner, Gallery Luisotti, Quint Contemporary Art, Ryan Perez, Vincent Szarek, Yautepec

• 2013 Inauguration/MLK Day Reflections

  I have been thinking about this phrase for a long time. This 1988 piece by Glenn Ligon was an adaptation of a legendary photo taken in 1968 by Ernest Withers.  The original photograph is from the ’68 Sanitation Worker’s Strike in Memphis, TN which was initiated in response to the egregiously deplorable working conditions workers…

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  January 21, 2013

  Contemporary Art, Photography, Street Art

  Civil Rights, Coretta Scott King, education, Ernest Withers, Glenn Ligon, Inauguration, JR, Kamala Harris, MLK, Photography, President Obama, Whitney Museum

• Naomi Sims

  This picture made my jaw drop.  Not surprisingly because Naomi Sims had that kind of captivating, arresting beauty, but check out her accessories!!!  Swoon!!! In case you don’t know Naomi Sims (I won’t judge you too harshly), she was one of the first black supermodels to grace a magazine cover in 1968.  Here is her…

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  January 19, 2013

  Fashion, Photography

  Accessories, black supermodels, Fashion, fashion pioneers, Ladies Home Journal, Lemlem, Naomi Sims, Photography, silver cuffs, supermodels

• I’d Photoshop A Wu Tang Album Into This Pic.

  Jane Birkin shot by Jeanloup Sief. Photo Credit: Dangerous Minds

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  January 9, 2013

  Art/Culture, Design, Fashion, Music, Photography

  beatles, cape, Fashion, icons, italy, jane birkin, jeanloup sief, photo, Photography, photoshop, wu tang clan