tim walker.

Tim Walker's photography for Italian Vogue last January. Flippin' freaky. Freakin' fantastic!

Tim's got a show coming up next week at the Somerset House - Tim Walker: Story Teller. Do attend...

Much much more of Walker's phantasmic fashion photography on his website here. 

aurelien juner.

Aurelien Juner’s Surface series is a wickedly subversive take on the fashion glossy – mixed medium, 3D collage pieces, photographed to perfection, witty and provocative.

Maybe it’s the whole perfect/imperfect thing, maybe it’s just the joy of seeing a cheap cheeseburger so perfectly plunked on the corner of Vogue, but these really do it for me.  

For all the easy pleasure that fashion spreads afford, Juner is pleasingly adroit at articulating the more cerebral side of his work. As he puts it:

"Surface is a personal photographic réflexion on the function of fashion magazine as a medium of dissemination of "mass culture" images and its relation to reality - questioning the status of the fictional world and idealized created for the magazine, and its relationship to the real world where the image is built."

Visual punch with underlying social commentary. Yes please!  

This and other projects here. 

Found via It's Nice That

hiro.

New news! The Getty Museum in Los Angeles recently acquired 14 photographs from the Shanghai-born fashion photographer Hiro Wakabayashi, famed for the bold, elegant aesthetic he pushed while staff photographer at Harper's Bazaar from 1956 - 1975. What a joy to further familiarize with such exquisite juxtapositions and dramatic turns of fabric.

Great article on La Lettre de la Photographie here.

wearable planter.

The Atlanta, Georgia-based Wearable Planter crew use 3-D printing to make these obscenely likeable portable perennials for your lapel, decolletage or bicycle frame. So you'll never be caught out without a herbal nibble!

So stupid-cute, I can't even handle it. Enjoy their website here.

norman parkinson.

Beautiful feature in today's Guardian on the much under-shown Norman Parkinson - who served, as great fashion photographers often do, as both a documentarian and an image-maker of his time.

Stylish much? I'll say.

This latest exhibition, An Eye for Fashion, runs through April at the M Shed gallery in Bristol. 

Nice one Norman. You look like a fun guy. 

maurizio anzeri.

It's been two years since I first saw Mr. Anzeri's very bizzare, very likable work. Actually perhaps not entirely likeable, did show this to someone the other day who I believe was thoroughly creeped out. Little children, sewn up heads, I get it.

Well for some reason this stuff's still on my radar and each time I come back to it I like it more. Amazing isn't it, the way a few lines can change the whole character of a face - surreal, broody, vengeful, forlorn, obscure.

 In case you are unsure, each of Maurizio's found-photographs are stitched directly onto with thread. Needlepoint certainly isn't the most masculine of crafts, but I find him all the more affable for just that reason. I imagine him in a thimble. Nay, an Italian thimble! Classy.

He's also recently completed a collaborative effort with Dazed and Confused magazine (not too shabby).  Frankly it's just great. Scroll down and enjoy.