Man Ray lips

as jewelry. Amazing.

Garance Dore and St.Kilda

These make me want to

take b&w portraits

window light I think

Heidi Slimane

(has his own style)

Radishes are something

I love to look at

and wish I knew more ways to eat

Chez Pannise by Selby

Love love love.

Color

Wetness

Glamor.

Marylin Minter

Things I love:

The green and white clusters of flowers

both against light and dark walls,

the textures,

the orange accents

(against the white, green, gray, and hyacinth blue).

Also how effortless it all looks.

And comfortable and a little cluttered.

Abigail Ahern's place by Selby

Araki (1940 and 2004) -> Mehran

Mehran <- Teller <- Winogrand

Portfolio current.

Marc Jacobs Ads 1999.

Women Are Beautiful 1975.

Brassai 1933

I think of him as the original street photographer

of the dark, gritty, yet still quite

something not ugly.

Brassai

haunted dance halls, bars, brothels, streets

of Paris at night

Sex

Arbus 1960s

After Brassai and before Nan came

Diane Arbus

The weird, the real people, artifical light

Not pretty or beautiful in a normal sense

Sex

Goldin 1970s/80s

Nan Goldin made things even more personal

Contrast, artificial light, night

People as they are

Sex

I like these, but also see clear influences.

Nan Goldin, Araki, Juergen Teller, Eggleston.

Light, color, raw.

It's hard to be original.

All by Annabel Mehran.

I guess I would trace Goldin and Teller

back to gritty street photographers,

Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and them back to

Braissai's Paris Underbelly at Night

Araki has elements of the surreal from

Man Ray

and elements of the perfect still life from

Kertesz

Eggleston to me is all about light

like classic Edward Weston

and before him perhaps

Julia Margaret Cameron

Tina Chow's Jewelry.

Basket weaving, bamboo, uncut crystals.

Kyoto. 1988. Seidner.

Vogue 1987. Helmut Newton.

Saturn.

Vogue 1988.

Mostly from Rare Vintage.

Strong, feminine.

Hard, delicate.

Bold, muted.

Complex, minimal.

Balanced I suppose,

in combining extremes.

Steve Rubell, Tina Chow. New York City, USA, 1981. Jean Pigozzi.

Jean-Michael Basquiet, Tina Chow, Andy Warhol. NYC 1980s. Bob Cocacello.

Tina Chow also,

totally elegant and beautiful

in real life.

Tina Chow in Chanel. 1984. David Seidner.

Tina Chow. 1985. Andy Warhol.

Tina Chow as model and muse.

Posing.

Conscious.