The Gug
by Le Fist
The Guggenheim Museum, February 2012
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: new york
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The Sandpit: Sam O’Hare [2010]
by Le Fist
Double take_ A friend sent me the link to Sam O’hare’s short film, The Sandpit. At first I thought I was viewing an incredibly realised model reproduction of New York. And then the penny dropped. This was New York – real, pulsing, alive. 35,000 photographic stills were taken to create the film which records the events of a day in the city from a bird’s eye view. A labour of love if there ever was one. There’s something about the […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: film, new york, photography, sam o'hare, thomas demand
New York Calling
by Le Fist
The madness is about to begin. Let’s see in the womenswear season with some lovely images from Halston – one of the most highly anticipated shows. Where will London-based Marios Schwab take it? Will Liza approve? Questions…I really hope he pulls it off and brings direction and energy to the brand. They both deserve it. Another Balenciaga success story in the making?
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fashion, halston, marios schwab, new york
Inventive Paris Clothes: MOMA, NYC 1977
by Le Fist
A truly rare book. Happened upon it in a car boot sale. It accompanied the 1977 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The photographs are by the late Irving Penn and the introduction was penned by the irreplaceable Diana Vreeland. Some of the garments are quite famous, especially the Vionnet knotted 1930s satin sheath and her famous “4 square” dress. Others are less so. The patina of age – yellowing pages, classic typography, dainty but linear […]
Categories: i heart new york, new york diaries, rare books, Uncategorized • Tags: exhibitions, fashion, new york, photography
Wanted
by Le Fist
Andy Warhol: Triple Rauschenberg, 1964. From the Sonnabend Collection I once had the pleasure of sitting on the same bench in the line-up room (Mid-town Manhattan NYPD) that J Lo and P Diddy sat when he got arrested! Claim to fame, hey! Lucky for me I was the victim that instance and not the criminal. I ended up there after waiting 4 hours to see a detective after being scammed on Craig’s List with a bogus apartment sub let. Since […]
Categories: Andy Warhol, i heart new york, iPhone, new york diaries, Uncategorized • Tags: art, colour studies, new york, photography, travel
Big City Lights 2: From Brooklyn Bridge
by Le Fist
Escape from New York. On the way to JFK airport. Yellow cab in a hurry. New York skyline in the distance. Dusk in late Autumn; the day before thanksgiving 2008. Perfect, amazing colours_
Categories: i heart new york, new york diaries, Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, new york, photography
Concrete Jungle Contd.
by Le Fist
Some more New York pics. Williamsburg and Downtown Manhattan_
Categories: architecture, i heart new york, new york diaries, tonal studies • Tags: architecture, black and white, colour studies, new york, photography, travel
The Photodiarist: An Eye for Beauty
by Le Fist
Couldn’t really do a series about New York without a “big up” to one of my favourite bloggers – The Photodiarist. Its such a simple, beautiful concept. One woman, her camera and one of the most amazing cities in the world. Genius.
Categories: i heart new york, new york diaries, Uncategorized • Tags: new york, photography
Big City Lights
by Le Fist
Saw these lights in a covered market in Williamsburg, Brooklyn a while back. I like the random, haphazard nature. Like a junk box chandelier or a post-apocalyptic mobile that would give a baby nightmares.
Categories: cut 'n' paste, love love love, new york diaries • Tags: design, new york, photography
Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of…
by Le Fist
Some photographs I took on my first ever trip to New York. I was struck by how familiar it all seemed, like a movie set. Kind of unreal or hyper real? I’m quite into architecture and cityscapes and I was blown away by how beautiful she was_
Categories: i heart new york, new york diaries, tonal studies, travel • Tags: architecture, colour studies, new york, photography
