Showing posts with label 1970's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970's. Show all posts

12.05.2011

ANTONIO LOPEZ: Instamatics

DIVINE (POLAROIDS), NEW YORK CITY, 1978

TINA CHOW, LONDON, 1975

MEN IN SHOWERS SERIES
KARL LAGERFELD
, NEW YORK CITY, 1976


Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Berge, Marina Schiano, Jerry Hall, Paris, 1977

Read Jean-Jacques Naudet's tribute to Antonio Lopez

La Lettre de la Photographie 12.5.2011

"If Antonio Lopez had left us only his Instamatic photographs, and not his Drawings [and Fashion Illustrations] for which he is known, we would still have cause to celebrate a brilliant artistic vision. The compendium includes the most creative and innovative of those images, spanning the 1970’s. Most of these have never been published and will come as a revelation to those unfamiliar with this aspect of his achievements." – Twin Palms Publishers

"Antonio was a magnet for beautiful, fun, sexy people, and his portraits – done with a ten-dollar camera– exude that Latin lover artist passion that he was all about. He got more sex from a shoe and a drugstore camera than most fashion photographers got from nudes in a million-dollar studio. He never paid a hair or makeup man; he did it himself or had Way Bandy, then the best, do it for fun. Fun! Bandy worked five days a week for Avedon and Scavullo for huge money with contracts but worked all night free for Antonio." – from Instamatics, Antonio Lopez with Michael McKenzie Interview, June 28, 1976

8.02.2010

FOUND MY PHOTOS: Master Photographers


Photographer Saul Leiter in his Studio, 1972
Contact sheet (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved


Photographer Ernst Haas and Artist Anders Holmquist  
Contact sheet, 1976 (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved


Photographer Art Kane and model Susan Forristal, Puerto Rico
Contact sheet 1972 (c) Elizabeth Paul /All Rights Reserved

Found my contact sheets and found my negatives, 
but no longer have a darkroom to print in...

5.07.2010

NYPD: Seek Help To ID Photos

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The NYPD released 215 photographs of women taken in the 1970's by a convicted serial killer now on Death Row in California. The photographer, who studied film under Roman Polanski, had over a 1,000 pictures in a storage locker when he was arrested. Releasing the photographs may help crack several cold cases.

"They should be in every newspaper, on TV and on the Internet," said Sheila Weller, a cousin of one of his victims. View Photos Here.