*If your place of business is offended by mammaries, this post may be NSFW.
I was struck the other day by Italian Vogue's online multimedia presentation of Steven Meisel's Eva Mendes photographs. But aside from the three dimensional quality and clever overlays, there was something else that caught my eye: Eva Mendes' breasts.
Under glass.
This is a trope I am familiar with from George Pitts' photographs; he is a big fan of the glass-on-breasts trope. I was sure I'd seen this before, and I surveyed some folks, including Clayton Cubitt, who seems to know about such things. We agreed that Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin were into GOB also. But I couldn't find any hard evidence from Newton; Bourdin, I could. See below.
photo by Steven Meisel
I was struck the other day by Italian Vogue's online multimedia presentation of Steven Meisel's Eva Mendes photographs. But aside from the three dimensional quality and clever overlays, there was something else that caught my eye: Eva Mendes' breasts.
Under glass.
This is a trope I am familiar with from George Pitts' photographs; he is a big fan of the glass-on-breasts trope. I was sure I'd seen this before, and I surveyed some folks, including Clayton Cubitt, who seems to know about such things. We agreed that Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin were into GOB also. But I couldn't find any hard evidence from Newton; Bourdin, I could. See below.
photo by Steven Meisel
photo by George Pitts
photo by Guy Bourdin
And then I got distracted by Guy Bourdin. I know his work, but I hadn't looked at a large survey of it for a while. Good lord, the man was good. I mean, fashion work that is this witty and beautiful and smart is just hard to come by these days. There's an amazing archive of his work and others as well at madeinphoto.fr.
warning: highly addictive.
Some Bourdin eye candy for Friday:
And then I got distracted by Guy Bourdin. I know his work, but I hadn't looked at a large survey of it for a while. Good lord, the man was good. I mean, fashion work that is this witty and beautiful and smart is just hard to come by these days. There's an amazing archive of his work and others as well at madeinphoto.fr.
warning: highly addictive.
Some Bourdin eye candy for Friday:
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Francesca Woodman did a lot of interesting things with glass, including a self portrait in which she presses a sheet of it against her naked body. I would link to it, but I totally can't look at that particular photograph at work.
Back in 2002 or 2003 Sandro was working on a series of nudes laying on glass. He would shoot from below.
He has some under the personal area of his website. Don't know if he is still shooting these or not but....
http://www.sandrofilm.com/
There's also the notable pictures by Glen Luchford done with painter Jenny Saville, that might be of interest to your comparison of 'Glass on Breast' references.