Two completely different shots, two different photographers, two different renderings, two stylistically different approaches — and yet they move me in similar ways. How to explain it? Left: STEVEN MEISEL Right: ELLEN VON UNWERTH Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Author: Kritina Lee Knief
Kooky Camera
Twilight Zone / A Most Unusual Camera! Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Presidents’ Day
A Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln in 1846, as photographed by Nicholas H. Shepherd, a law student who worked in Lincoln’s office from 1845 to 1847. There are no photographs of George Washington because the President died in 1799 and the first photograph was taken in 1814. Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Valentine’s Day
The heart-shaped reef near the archipelago of Whitsunday Island which falls within the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, as photographed by Holger Leue. Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Two more days until Valentine’s Day!
Helmet Newton Henri Cartier-Bresson / Italy, 1933 Henri Cartier-Bresson / Romania, 1975 Robert Doisneau Jason Langer, 1998 (“Elevator”) Bruce Davidson, 1966 (Social Club in Spanish Harlem, NYC) Diane Arbus, 1963 Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Homage to love …
All images by Alfred Eisenstaedt For LIFE Magazine, 1943 Soldiers Saying Farewell During WW II / Penn Station, New York City Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Alberto Giacometti’s L’Homme Qui Marche I
In the news today, a record art sale by Sotheby’s: Alberto Giacometti’s L’Homme Qui Marche I, a bronze sculpture from the 1960s, sold for £65,001,250 ($104,327,006). Portraits of Alberto Giacometti in his studio, above and below, as photographed by Gordon Parks. Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Transformation
What I like about this shot by Clark Little, a photographer who gained notoriety for his images of the Hawaiian surf, is that it does what Georgia O’Keefe did for skulls and flowers. He transforms a mere compound, that being water (actually, a ubiquitous chemical substance and I had to look this up because as far as I knew, water was […]
Calvin Klein
Film actor and model, Kellan Lutz is slated to be the next Calvin Klein men’s underwear model, following in the footsteps of other notables, Mark Wahlberg and Djimon Hounsou. The late Herb Ritts photographed the campaign featuring Mark Wahlberg: And, Peter Lindbergh photographed the campaign featuring Djimon Hounsou: Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic […]
A view of the moon
From my back porch tonight … I’m told this is what is left of the Wolf Moon. I think this is night 3. I wish I had the patience to photograph this properly — the way Ansel Adams would have photographed it. But capturing it at all, is good enough for me. ~~~ + ~~~© […]
