|[ Der Oberst hat niemand, der ihm schreibt ]|

Nudi photographed by Paolo Roversi, 1999.
Models: Guinevere van Seenus, Shalom Harlow, Jaimee Rishar, Kristen McMenamy, Amy Wesson, Janine Giddings, Kate Moss, Jenny Howorth, Michelle Hicks, Amber Valetta, Milla Jovovich, Jenny Knight, Angela Lindvall, Melanie Thierry, Ana, Audrey Marnay, Mayaan Keret, Trish Goff, Kirsten Owen, Tasha Tilberg, Tatiana Patitz, Emily Sandberg, Kirsten Owen, Sasha, Alexandra Egorova, Malgosia Bela, Matalia Semanova, Zora Starr, Karen Elson, Devon Aoki, Stella Tennant, Esther de Jong, Claudia, Ines de la Fressange, Tanga Moreau, Anne, Mathilde, Lida Egorova, Stella Tennant, Kasia Pysiak, Kirsten Owen, Meg.

Two stories photographed by Vasiliy Voynov (Василий Войнов) a.k.a. VoVa (Vassa)

"The Truth about Photographers" [ via PhotoSight ]



( One more under the cut )

"Žiedai tarp žiedų" ("Flowers among Flowers", "Цветы среди цветов") photography book by Rimantas Dichavičius^[www] (Римантас Дихавичус), first published in USSR, Vilnius: Mintis, 1987. According to the artist, photographs were taken over the years and decades prior to the publication.

( Full 90-pic set under the cut )

[ via kro1975 ]

Enjoying Summer photographed by Yan McLine of Photosight [ via PS ]. Somehow reminds me of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli [posted]

Carla Bruni^[wiki] photographed in 1993 by Michel Comte^[wiki] in a pose, which allegedly references Georges Seurat^[wiki] painting Les Poseuses.

The black-and-white photo gained public attention after the recent announcement that it will be auctioned by Christie's^[wiki] in New York next month, in conjunction with Carla Bruni's present status of the First Lady of France.
[ via ABC News ] [ via FOX News ] [ via Daily Mail ].

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On a separate note, both ABC and FOX, as well as -- I'm sure -- the rest of American media*, censored the aforementioned picture, which is by no means surprising, what I find interesting is that FOX chose to use the images of French flag for this purpose.

(*) I stand corrected, Bloomberg News published the uncensored pucture [via]

Photo by Toni Frissell in December/1947 issue of Harper's Bazaar [ via aqua_snezhok ].

Speaking of PhotoSight -- photo by Andrey Razoomovsky [ via PhotoSight ]

Photographed by Victor Alekseev [ps], model Anna a.k.a. Orchide-ya [ps].

"и провожают пароходы, совсем не так как поезда..."
Photographed by Ruslan Lobanov [ via PhotoSight]. Model Anna Belova a.k.a. Annabelle [ps].

[ via MaxSauco @PhotoSight ] | [ x-posted herr_0berst ]


(i) Kalī Yuga; (ii) My Pushkin: Illustration to Pushkin's Tales; (iii) Perfunctory Attempt of Introspection on the Threshold;


(i) Certain Thoughts About a Solar Eclipse; (ii) Darwin and Freud as the Greatest Dissapointment; (iii) Three Sisters;


"The Bride" series


"Fingers" series


(i) Black Moon; (ii) Terra Female; (iii) Pygmalion's Taboo; (iv) Black Pygmalion; (v) Skin;


(i) Mamma; (ii) Evgraph-boy