PUBLIC MARKS with tags fashion & photography

Far more than just bits of fabric we use to cover our bodies, the clothes we wear and the ways we combine them convey a great deal about our personal tastes, lifestyles, perspectives and values, not to mention our society’s broader cultural mores.

Can you distinguish fashion from pornography?

125 is a magazine for people who love photography, design, fashion, art and visual culture presented in a grownup package that will entertain, enlighten and provoke debate.

BFA is a full service digital photography agency established in 2010 by Billy Farrell, David Prutting, Neil Rasmus & Joe Schildhorn. With a combined 25 years as top tier photographers at the renowned Patrick McMullan Company, the founders of BFA bring with them an impressive level of experience shooting in-house for some of the world's most exclusive events. "Nobody wants to be inundated. There is so much out there. What we need is fewer things, better edited." -Anna Wintour (The New York Times - 09/28/06)

De Françoise Huguier je connaissais essentiellement les photos de mode, de défilés, de backstages, des photos coupées qui vous dévoilaient d’exceptionnels robes, étoffes, jeux de tissus, de lumières … Des photos de mode à la façon de reportages terrain. Cette idée de capturer des moments de mode comme on capturerait des instants de vie est à mettre à la solde de Christian Caujolle, alors directeur du service photo chez Libé, dans les années 80. C’est lui qui envoya missionner Françoise Huguier dans ce monde de «raffinement et barbarie» … Bref l’alchimie des deux : reportage et mode a donné, et ne cesse de donner corps à de Sublimes photos (Titre d’un de ses livres de photos sur la mode).

Robert G. Bartholot is an artist with an emphasis on photographic illustration. His images are meant to tell a story without being too specific. They are often mystical and ironic at the same time, but always colourful and strong. Bartholot was born and raised in Germany and has lived in San Francisco, Zurich and Madrid. He is now based in Berlin.

In the early 1970′s, while walking with a friend through a park in Tokyo, photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki noticed that young couples used the park as a space for intimate encounters in the belief that they are protected by the darkness of the night. Equipped with a small camera and Kodak’s infrared flashbulb, Yoshiyuki produced a series of photographs that captures the nightly performance in Tokyo’s parks. In this haunting series of photographs produced between 1971 and 1979 and simply called The Park, the couples, both straight and gay, become the unwitting actors in Yoshiyuki’s play. While The Park has attracted much controversy in 1979 when it was first exhibited and published as a book in Tokyo, it was nearly thirty years later, in 2007, that Yoshiyuki’s project received global acclaim resulting in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe.

So if Vogue Paris going in on a directional change? or are they just giving props to the legends that created this thing called “superfashion”? Apparently this has been the question on everyones pouted lips since Emmanuelle Alt replaced Carine Roitfeld as the editor and chief of the print media title.

So the Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott-photographed shoot isn't exactly original. Thus there are two questions raised: first, is the photo shoot, none the less, any good? And secondly, does the lack of outright originality matter?