Exquisite portrait paintings by British artist Sarah Ball that focus on the subject of identity.
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“What we’re saying here is pretty radical”: A new study suggests inflammation wards off chronic pain instead of causing it.
With the Edwardian era, which lasted from 1900 to 1912, came many life improvements that we still use today, such as electricity, cars, and vacuum cleaners. Still, it has also given us a fair share of bizarre facts, most of them concerning women.
Nina Hartley is a Pornographic Actress, Author, Social Media Star, Model, and Director from California, the United States. Moreover, Nina Hartley is also a trainer, sex educator, and sex-positiv
In the 1960s photographer Bill Brandt put a twist on his portraits of famous artists — by zooming in all the way on just the eye.
Image by Barbara Kruger Inspired by the art of Barbara Kruger, students conducted research on a social issu...
The debut album from the iconic American tattoo artist, model & iconoclast Kat Von D is a pastiche of shapeshifting analog synths, post-punk dreamscapes, gothic hues, and shy pop magnetism.Long before the history-making tattoos, ubiquitous television shows, best-selling books, and influential beauty empire, Kat Von D sat down at a piano for nearly two hours a day and played. Classical training and a deep appreciation for music of all genres underscored her life. She studied voice under Ken Tamplin six days per week, strengthening her vocals. In 2012, she began writing with GRAMMY® Award-nominated legend Linda Perry. Following this experience, Kat continued to write on her own, sitting at the piano and summoning songs from raw emotion. During 2014, Kat retreated to London to record the original mix of what would become her full-length debut album Love Made Me Do It [KVD/Kartel Music Group] before cementing it with her band-Gregg Foreman AKA Mr. Pharmacist [synth 1], Sammi Doll [synth 2], Dave Parley [drums], and Brynn Route [contortionist]. Capping off the process, Dan Haigh of Gunship handled mixing. Standouts include first single \"Exorcism,\" \"Protected\" featuring Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and produced and co-written with Danny Lohner [Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle], and \"The Calling\" capped off by never-before-heard recordings from original scream queen Vampira.\"More than any other medium, music has always been at the core of who I am, even before drawing and tattooing,\" says Kat Von D \"I've never pursued it publicly until now.\"
Sherman expertly toys with pose, gesture, backdrops, costume, makeup, lighting, digital image processing technology, and composition, to create a wide variety of realist and imagined portraits, often with her as the model.
Canadian photographer Amy Friend explores the relationship between what is visible and non-visible in these photographs. The series is called Dare Alla Luce, an Italian term meaning “to give birth to” which literally means " to give to the light." She takes vintage photographs and pierces them, the patterns evoking new images and hidden meanings.
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Over the last four years, photographer Joseph Ford (previously) has collaborated with friend and knitter Nina Dodd to create a project that blends models into their environments rather than having them stand out. Each subject wears a custom hand-knit sweater by Dodd that transforms their torso, partially camouflaging their body into a highly textured wall, striped running track, or for one pooch—the leaves of dense shrub. The series, Knitted Camouflage, also features a collaboration with French street artist Monsieur Chat who painted one of his trademark cats on the wall of a derelict factory for the photographer. More
A prominent, famous and revered artist in his lifetime, Pietro Canonica has been relegated to the sidelines of Italian art history. Skilled and beautiful as it works were, his commissions from aristocracy and fascist governments caused him to be disregarded in the years following World War II.
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi: Virgin and Child with Angels (detail), c.1620
Self-portrait, 1927. Her shirt says, “I am in training, don’t kiss me.” While David Bowie will always be my very first cultural touchstone of avant-garde androgyny, it’s Claude Cahun that’s my absolute favorite. And I’m sure Bowie would approve. He once said of Cahun, “You could call her transgressive or you could call her a cross dressing Man Ray with surrealist tendencies. I find this work really quite mad, in the nicest way.” You don’t really get much of a better recommendation than that, and looking as alien and draggy as anything Mr. Rebel Rebel ever dreamed of, her many photographic incarnations are just mesmerizing. Born in 1894 as Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, France, she was from a family of artistic Jewish intellectuals. Cahun chose her pseudonym for its unisex ambiguity—the surname was her paternal grandmother’s, who raised her, as Cahun’s mother struggled with mental illness. Her life-long artistic collaborator, romantic partner, and step-sister, Suzanne Malherbe, went by Marcel Moore, and together they fostered a true avant-garde community, hosting salons in their Paris home. (André Breton, author of Surrealist Manifesto, was a regular attendant.) Though photography is her most famous medium,...
Jean Shrimpton, circa 1960
Avec 'Eyes as Big as Plates', Riitta Ikonen et Karoline Hjorth amorcent le retour à la terre de leurs modèles.
