Friday, December 30, 2011

Kara Neko by Jonathan Waiter

Portrait series of Kara Neko by Jonathan Waiter




I don’t think about this term “muse” very much. I don’t photograph my  lovers. I’m not interested in exploring the many facets of a single  person. In fact, I rarely photograph anyone more than once. Its not part  of what I do.  Kara is a very rare exception. My relationship  with her is much more visceral and complex. I do consider her a muse. I  have real love for her.  Working with her is a much different process  for me. My intentions are totally transformed, and usually purely  instinctual. My pictures are about her. This is significant because my  pictures are usually about me.

jonathanwaiter

Portrait series of Kara Neko by Jonathan Waiter
I don’t think about this term “muse” very much. I don’t photograph my lovers. I’m not interested in exploring the many facets of a single person. In fact, I rarely photograph anyone more than once. Its not part of what I do.

Kara is a very rare exception. My relationship with her is much more visceral and complex. I do consider her a muse. I have real love for her. Working with her is a much different process for me. My intentions are totally transformed, and usually purely instinctual. My pictures are about her. This is significant because my pictures are usually about me.
jonathanwaiter

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Signe Vilstrup

Signe Vilstrup is an editorial  fashion photographer based in Denmark that shoots far a variety of  clients and various magazines. The galleries are a lovely afternoon  treat, with lots of fetish themes, lingerie, corsets, stockings,  panties, sexy shoes and lots of beautiful naked women. Keep in mind that  not all of the nudes are in the “Nudes” gallery category – I recommend  you wander through the offerings with your erotic intuition as your sole  guide…
via violet blue

Signe Vilstrup is an editorial fashion photographer based in Denmark that shoots far a variety of clients and various magazines. The galleries are a lovely afternoon treat, with lots of fetish themes, lingerie, corsets, stockings, panties, sexy shoes and lots of beautiful naked women. Keep in mind that not all of the nudes are in the “Nudes” gallery category – I recommend you wander through the offerings with your erotic intuition as your sole guide…
violet blue
via Bunny G

Monday, September 19, 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Stoya by Steven Klein


The goddess as seen by Steven Klein, comes as a poster with the limited edition of Terry Richardson´s magazine #5. Grab a copy while you can.  via fluffy Lychees

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Julie Rrap: Body Double

Julie Rrap Boat Tail (BT) (2004)
from the series Soft Targets
pure pigment prints on acid-free rag paper
image size 142.5 x 173cm paper size 152 x 173cm



Julie Rrap: Body Double
For over twenty-five years, the Sydney-based artist Julie Rrap has sought to disclose and unravel the ways in which the human body has been defined throughout western history and culture. She does so with a seductive wit, an outward display of pleasure, and a determination to match the gaze of her audiences.
Deeply based in the story of the body, Rrap’s art is always a surprise, resulting from an individual ingenuity that aligns with a feminist strategy to continuously seek and present the unpredictable and unanticipated.

Julie Rrap Overstepping (2001)
digital print 120 x 120 cm







Julie Rrap Yaw 2004
from the series Soft Targets
digital print 120 x 120 cm

This exhibition surveys Rrap’s work over three decades and focuses on three key themes in her work: the trickster, the body double and the ways in which her work represents the body as a fragmented entity.
Often playing the role of thief, vixen or mischievous impostor, Rrap has worked as a
kind of ‘trickster’, literally ‘occupying’ the work of some of western art’s most famous paintings or pop-cultural images. During the 1980s, artists such as Edvard Munch provided vehicles for Rrap’s exploration of the ways in which the female nude had been represented through the history of art, as in her 1984 series Persona and Shadow. ‘The historical paintings’, she explains, ‘were really stepping-off points for me to do a performance’. By mobilising these well-known images, Rrap unravels the  condition of woman as ‘other’ and this strategy has persisted in her work through to the A-R-MOUR series (2000).
Making the plaster casts for the series Monument
Location: Crawford Castings. Photograph: Jacky Redgate
Julie Rrap Monument (1995 - 1996)
fibreglass and bronze dust, camera and monitor
148 x 80 x 20cms

Throughout the 1990s until the present day, Rrap has used her own body in various
postures through shadow play, masquerade, mirror and mime. She performs as a ‘body
double’ for the still and moving camera.
Drawing on the notion that gender is in itself a performance, Rrap has forged the theme of the stand-in, a prosthetic body double, and her works often invite viewers to imagine themselves in such a role. This is evident in sculptural installations such as Vital Statistics(1997) and Hard Core/Soft Core (2006) through to the most recent work in this exhibition, Body Double (2007).

Julie Rrap Puberty 1984
from the series Persona and Shadow
cibachrome print approx. 194 x 105cm

Increasingly, Rrap represents a body in pieces, inevitably raising ethical and aesthetic issues in relation to how we depict, interpret and understand the human form. Such issues have been discussed both in broad social terms (for example in relation to the Abu Ghraib
photographs or in connection with genetic engineering), as well as in the field of art. For
Rrap, the body and its representation is porous, excessive and oozing with a sense of tease
and trickery. In works such as Hairline Crack (1992), Porous Bodies (1999) and Overstepping (2001), this body oversteps the margins of comfort, taking us into the zone of transgression. It is, however, always in the company of a foil that more often than not,
allows us to laugh out loud with the artist.
Victoria Lynn, Guest Curator
Julie Rrap Conception 1984
from the series Persona and Shadow
cibachrome print approx. 194 x 105cm




Julie Rrap Body Rub 2 (2006)
archival print on watercolour paper
image size: 199 x 100 cm paper size: 210 x 110cm


all photographs Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne © the artist


further reading: Julie Rrap: Body Double Education Kit (pdf)


Julie Rrap: Body Double at MCA Sydney till 28 January 2008

via placeboKatz