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Irving Penn: the Day the Platinum Print Died
One of my favorite photographers shuffled off this mortal coil October 7, and I feel compelled to mark his passage here. He wasn’t an Ansel Adams or an Annie Leibowitz; unless you are into photography and art, or fashion, you would not have heard of Irving Penn.
It is a shame, because there are many lesser artists out there in the public consciousness; many hacks who have enjoyed more fortune and fame. But this in no way diminishes him or his work. He was one of those rare commercial photographers that made art. There are a number of ways that one could interpret that statement; I’ll leave it up to you. He was a photographer’s photographer ; the methods that he developed are still in use by many today, both in the fashion and art worlds — the use of a dark, stark studio backdrop, and the placement of his subjects within a narrow corner created with his backdrop, for example.
But praising a photographer or an artist with words is kind of silly, I suppose, if not downright ironic. I first noticed an image of Penn’s back in the 1990s; it was a nude of Kate Moss, which you will find below. It’s NSFW, so if you click on the “read more” link, consider yourself warned; if you navigated to this page directly, sorry. But his images really moved me, but not because of his subject, but rather what he managed to do with her image. Moss is certainly beautiful in that near anorexic, super-model kind of way; a pixie that almost makes one feel perverted for enjoying her — at least that is how she typically comes across in fashion shoots.
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Picofarad: A Woman of Mettle
Get it? Mettle/metal. Pico, she is full of it. She’s also the perfect model, as she is nothing but a figment of my twisted imagination. This is a PG-13 version of another piece, which you can see over at my page on deviantART.
This is actually a character I dreamed up for an eventual piece I would like to do that doesn’t lend itself to my meager photography budget. But there is a lot of learning to do between now and that piece. When it comes to 3D rendering, I’m a n00b. In case you were wondering, this was done in Daz Studio 2.3 with postwork done in Photoshop CS2.
Um … yeah … Yeah!
First off, I’m doing much better emotionally, as I have said, and that continues — thanks everyone; you know who you are 
And now that I have some time on my hands as I ponder the future, I decided that I needed to indulge my creativity; my muse has been restless, as is her wont, when life hands me a big, steaming, pile of diversity in a flaming bag on my porch. To that end, I decided my friends John and Hilly, collectively known as Yeah!, needed a new flier for their DJ gigs. The whole He-Man thing is just played out. Although the disco font is still cool (always good to kick it old school). So, here’s a work in progress:
