Lady in red
April 18, 2013
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I recently came across these strikingly beautiful looks. Red is such an incredible color.
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I recently came across these strikingly beautiful looks. Red is such an incredible color.
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I’ve always loved Richard Avedon’s work. What an incredible career and bounty of images he’s captured and put into the world. I thought it would be interesting to share some of the man himself along with these poignant quotes:
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
-Richard Avedon
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
-Richard Avedon
If you are a New Yorker you have seen the new season of Mad Men poster whooshing by on the side of buses. It immediately takes you back to that those halcyon days of mid-century illustration. As an illustrator with a pretty busy workload I feel so grateful because I know that the use of illustration has waned greatly since then and probably will continue to. I love how painting styles float in and out of fashion and can be re-born for a modern day while paying homage to the past. mid-century illustration techniques are so in vogue at the moment. It was great when The New York Times looked up the illustrator of said poster and found out that it was illustrator Brian Sanders whose work graced hundreds of ads, magazines and book covers in the 60’s.
How great is this story?:
Matthew Weiner, inspired by a childhood memory of lush, painterly illustrations on T.W.A. flight menus, decided to turn back the promotional clock. He pored over commercial illustration books from the 1960s and ’70s and sent images to the show’s marketing team, which couldn’t quite recreate the look he was after.
“Finally,” he said, “they just looked up the person who had done all these drawings that I really loved, and they said: ‘Hey, we’ve got the guy who did them. And he’s still working. His name is Brian Sanders.
Sanders is now 75 with an incredible body of work behind him… and ahead.
Somehow the entire week slipped away from me without a post. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
Isn’t it amazing how light you feel when spring rolls into town? Have a wonderful weekend. We’re thinking of checking out the John Singer Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on Saturday).
Flower images above:
p.s if you want to listen to me on Employee of the Month here’s the link.
It really feels like spring today. How wonderful. Countdown time till I start complaining about how hot it is.
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