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Who is Madame Peripetie, part two

Madame Peripetie aka Sylwana Zybura is a polish photographer based in Germany. Unfortunately there is very little info about her, except for the details I provided on an earlier post. The conceptual photographer is greatly influenced by surrealism, dadaism as well as the new wave era of the 80s, British post punk scene and the avant-garde theater of Robert Wilson.

Her latest series of photographs titled "Birds for Tata Christiane" are as striking as her older photographic works.

Birds for Tata Christiane

Courtesy Madame Peripetie

The Florence Issue - Simply You

All Shots Copyright Carla Coulson

I promised a couple of months ago that I would share with you a shoot that I did in Florence. We had the great fortune to work in the most spectacular location, the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence. Once the home of the Florentine nobile family Della Gheradesca, the Palazzo della Gheradesca has been transformed into the most sumptious hotel.

The noble floor decorations have been left in their original state, divine frescoes, incredible flooring and corridors full of ancient statues and chandeliers. Where could have been a better location than to shoot our 'Mistress' story than this divine hotel. Our story was, the mistress who waits for her lover in a beautiful hotel but he never shows up!

I promised also to tell you what lightinng we used to create this look. I tried to keep the light very even (though I couldn't resist a more dramatic lighting in the second shot of the girl on the sofa).

To light the background we used a flash with a light bowl on it (kind of like a white world globe) that we bounced into the ceilings. It created a light that lit the background evenly with almost no shadows. For the model we used a separate light, a strip softbox to light her lengthways which helped when we were in a corner in the bathroom. Less bulky than a normal softbox!

Hair and make-up was done by the talented Paolo Baroncelli, styling by Louise Hilsz and the beautiful model is Angelica Sulzbach. Shot for Simply You.

Carla xx

ps all images taken on my Leica M8

Fashion - Fashion Photography Through Time

Fashion - Fashion Photography Through Time at Fotografiska is the most comprehensive exhibition of fashion photography ever to be shown in Europe. The exhibit features more than 200 works by 51 internationally famous photographers.
Fashion reflects the development of fashion photography over the decades, from Man Ray's experimental compositions in the 1920s, via iconic figures such as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, to the supermodel cult fostered by Steven Meisel and Peter Lindbergh in the 1990s. A few acclaimed 21st-century photographers are also featured, including Michelangelo Di Battista, Mikael Jansson and Esther Haase.

"Today, fashion photography is an art in its own right. A visual language that is both powerful and has extended the boundaries for what photography can be. For more than 90 years, we have been influenced and astonished by this dream world that is conjured up before us," says Jan Broman, founder and director of Fotografiska.

Russel James, "Scarlett", Los Angeles 2005

Paolo Roversi, "Guinevere in Red Dress by Yves Saint Laurent", Paris 1996

Ralph Mecke, "Still Not Sure", New York City

Esther Haase, "The Fearless Lola Walking The Lion King", Miami 1999

Michelangelo Di Battista and Tina Berning, "Face Project 1", Paris 2007

David Drebin, "Over the Top", New York City 2009

Robert Nettarp, "Missy Raider smoking", Paris 2001, Spoon

Robert Nettarp, "Hanging with meat", Stockholm 2002, Fjords

Robert Nettarp, "Ase beautiful pain", Stockholm 2000/2001, Bibel unpublished

Photo by Pauline Benthede

Images courtesy Fotografiska, Stockholm

Peter Lindbergh: " On Street "

Whether he is photographing Kate Moss or Catherine Deneuve, the melancholy pictures of Peter Lindbergh look behind the star cult, styling and make-up to reveal the individual personality in all its strength. Born in 1944 in Lissa, Poland, Lindbergh grew up in Germany, and currently lives in Paris, Arles and New York. He began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. He is considered to be one of the world's preeminent fashion photographers, particularly in black and white, and is credited with helping create the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s. As a visual teller of tales, Peter Lindbergh frequently arranges his compositions to resemble famous film scenes from early German cinema or from the free dance of the 1920s.
Despite a Berlin exhibition that made its debut in September and another set for Shanghai next year, Lindbergh is very much rooted in the moment. "Fashion photography has gotten a little lost. There is a lot of carnival going on. The hair has gotten too crazy and the make-up. At the moment, everybody is trying to do young. They have to look young or dress young. Youth is so overdone," he said. "All the advertising and magazine covers today - they don't look like natural women. For me, that's a real pity. There's all this retouching. A little humanity would do good, especially in fashion photography."
WWD, 2010

A large new Peter Lindbergh exhibition " On Street " is currently on view at C/O Berlin Museum, from September 25, 2010 to January 9, 2011.

Kate Moss for Harper's Bazaar, New York, 1994

Mariacarla Boscono, New York, 2008

Monique Olsen for Vogue Italy, NY, 2006

Comme des Garcons, Pont A Mousson Factory, Nancy, France, 1988

Milla Jovovich, Karen Elson for Vogue Italy, Downtown Los Angeles, 2000

Milla Jovovich for Vogue Italy, Downtown L.A, 2000

All images, courtesy Peter Lindbergh and C/O Berlin

To view additional photographs of the exhibition, click on " On Street," Peter Lindbergh.

December Horoscope

Two sublime moons and Jupiter and Venus both out of retrogade will have you prepped and ready for a holiday season to remember......
How about a whimsical and fashionable astrology theme for December! For its December 2010 magazine issue, Vogue UK had this amusing idea with " Star Signs," a series of images that captures the model Siri Tollerod as each of the 12 astrological signs .

Aries in Alexander McQueen