The Restless

This Thursday please join us for the exciting kick off of Rush Zimmerman's photography exhibition, The Restless! From Thursday April 5th to Saturday May12th a collection of limited edition candids will be available to view by appointment only. We hope you have time to stop by, but in the meantime, here is a small sneak preview of what you can expect at the show!

*please email Rushzimmerman@gmail.com for an appointment  

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Herb Ritt's: L.A. Style

Beginning on April 3rd and running through August 26 an exhibition of Herb Ritt's photographs will begin at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He is one of the world's most iconic photographers, a man who defined the way we saw beauty in the 1980's and 90's. Ritt's photographs haven't been on display since 1996, when the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston broke records with the number of visitors that attended the exhibition. If you are in L.A., make sure to stop by and see some of the rarest, most beautiful pictures that Ritt's has captured. Focused mainly on fashion, athletes, dancers and nudes, there will be 87 framed images, and many other pieces of work from magazines and books throughout the years. 

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A Month of Candids

The past month of fashion from New York, London, Paris and Milan has brought us so many beautiful sights, it's hard to narrow down favorites. Vogue.com has put together some of the most stunning and intimate behind the scenes shots of all of the action. Here are a few of our favorites.  

 Alexander Wang, New York

Calvin Klein Collection, New York

Lanvin, Paris

Emilio Pucci, Milan

Rochas, Paris

Preen, New York

Stella McCartney, Paris

Sonia Rykiel, Paris

Rick Owens, Paris

Giorgio Armani, Milan

Altuzarra, New York

Louis Vuitton, Paris

Mary Katrantzou, London

Mtthew Williamson, London

Stell McCartney, Paris

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Annie Leibovitz

Our Inspiring woman of the day is iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz. Her career began in 1973 as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, which was just the beginning of a career that has captured some of people's most intense and intimate moments. She has scaled buildings for the sake of a great picture, been on tour with the Rolling Stones, raised three children, and given us some of the most memorable photos in the world. (Who could ever forget pregnant Demi Moore?) Check out this great article from Vanity Fair, and pick up Annie's book, At Work where she explains how many of her famous pictures came to be. 

Mick Jagger, Buffalo, New York, 1975

Demi Moore, Culver City California, 1991

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Malibu, California, 1988

Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, 2008

John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York, 1980

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Captured Movement

As lovers of all forms of art, we had to share this double artistic feature from yesterday's New York Times column,  Lens. Featuring the below photographs of Andrea Mohin, hand picked by Andrea as some of her personal favorites, they are somewhat a year in review. What makes them even more exceptional is the skillful art that goes into photographing dance. Capturing the perfect moment, the feeling and the motion, are the small details that Mohin executes perfectly. She describes it best when she explains it as "Being in touch with what the music is telling you. That's what the dancers are doing, so if you are too, then you are on the same page." 

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Yesterday And Today: Through Photos

Last week the exhibit "More American Photographs" Opened at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. During the great depression, the Farm Security Administration commissioned photographers to document American life during the years of 1935-1944. The result is beautiful and captivating photos of one of America's most difficult times. Fast forward to present day, where America is coming out of our most difficult time since the years of the great depression. Twelve new photographers are being commissioned to take an entirely new set of photos that capture the hardships that many have endured throughout our country since 2008. The photographs will be displayed side by side at the Wattis Institute until December 17, 2011 and will then travel to Denver and Columbus. (We are keeping our fingers crossed for an East Coast location!) If you can't make it to any of the locations though, there will be catalog available in January.

Photos of the 30's and 40's:

Photos of today: 

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New Photography

If you are in New York at any point between now and January 12, make sure you stop by the MOMA and check out the New Photography exhibit! Featuring six photographers from all over the world (Canada, England, China, Holland and the United States) the exhibit focuses on the diversity and international scope of modern photography across the world. Here is a preview of a few of the photographers and some of their work. If you go, make sure to tell us all about it!

Deana Lawson, Her photos explore intimacy, sexuality and community in her portraits of people taken in their homes. 

George Georgio. A british photographer who lives in Istanbul and photographs extensively in Eastern Europe.

Viviane Sassen is a photographer who was born in Amsterdam, but was raised in Kenya. You can see the influence of this in her photography in her photographs that are taken in intentionally unidentified African countries, focusing on anonymous, faceless subjects. 

Doug Rickard is an American born photographer that explores ground level geography of urban areas using Google Street View

Moyra Davey is a Canadian born photographer that creates pictures using analog materials that are increasingly hard to come by in today's digital world. She then folds the pictures into envelope shapes and mails them to friends, and later collects the photos and displays them in grid form complete with stamps and markings.

Zhang Dali is a Chinese born artist that manipulates photos that were used as propaganda during the rule of Mao Tse Tung's Communist regime. 

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