Photo Books We Love: Selected Works by Vincent Peters

Vincent Peters SELECTED WORKS immediately shows you why this fashion photographer has seen a career which started at a young age and took off. His artistic trajectory has allowed him to photograph some of the most iconic and well-known celebrities, designers, actors, and models from around the world, and for some of the largest and most prestigious magazines. That is The impact of the over 200 photographs he has selected for this edition in SELECTED WORKS. Peters has mastered the art of portrait photography in black-and-white, capturing hidden facets of each subject with precise lighting and technique, whether that subject is Jon Hamm in Los Angeles or Isabeli Fontana in Paris.

Peters’ selection of Emma Watson and her shoot from London for the book’s cover is inspired. Emma not only stare directly into the camera and dares it to see her as she is, but she also takes the white powder and base of makeup and smears it around as if it doesn’t really matter what she’s wearing or who, she’s still got the shot.

One thing that is delightful about this book is that although it has the names of the subjects and where the photograph was taken, it doesn’t add a year. In that way each photograph is rendered timeless. You don’t know if Amanda Seyfried was filmed in 2005 or 2020. The same is true for John Malkovich, Cindy Crawford, and Kristen Stewart. The date is irrelevant, only the photo is.

Teneues, 978-3961712281, Hardcover, 160 Pages

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Two Bored Artists Create a Mini Art Museum for Their Gerbils

From the gerbil art museum, courtesy of Filippo Lorenzin

If we all could make such productive and creative use of our available time as London-based museum curator Filippo Lorenzin and artist Marianna Benetti.

After over two weeks of being at home and isolated, they decided to recreate famous artworks in miniature as a tiny gerbil art museum, in gerbil themes and gerbil-safe materials (mostly cardboard). The recreations included Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, Edvard Munch’s The Scream,  Johannes Vermeer’s The Girl With the Pearl Earring, and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The gerbils, named Pandoro and Tiramisu (apparently their foodies), have taken to their new space.

We’re guessing it will last for about 2 weeks before they chew their way through it. Ah, art is so ephemeral!

As promised, this is the full video of our gerbils visiting the museum. No gerbils or gallery assistants were harmed in the making of this. from r/aww

 

Classic Food and Fashion Doodles in the “The Ultimate Droodles Compendium​”

The Ultimate Droodles Compendium contains more than 350 classic Droodles by Roger Price

Montegrappa Pens releases Limited Edition Genio Creativo: Leonardo Da Vinci set

Italy-based luxury pen maker Montegrappa has released a new addition to its limited edition series, the Genio Creativo, and is based on Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci.

The new set is intended to mark the 500 years since the loss of one of history’s most prolific minds, Leonardo da Vinci. For the design of this limited-edition release, they chose to celebrate both his artistic and scientific acumen.

 

LEONARDO da VINCI

Says Montegrappa, “From machines of war to telescopes, musical instruments and early robotics, Leonardo’s ambition and talent knew no boundaries. Left-handed, he was also an enigmatic writer, annotating his drawings with mirror script written right to left. The new Leonardo da Vinci edition writes conventionally, but celebrates the maestro’s technological prowess throughout its design and presentation.”

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

The new Leonardo Da Vinci edition is made of hand-finished brass, stainless steel and Tuscan olive wood, and the edition’s 500 piston-fed fountain pens and 500 rollerballs combine fine metal detailing with organic materials.

This combination of materials is done as an homage to Leonardo’s sense for the fluid relationship between nature, art and science. References to his achievements in geometry, astronomy, engineering and architecture are featured throughout the piece.

FEATURES

  • Material: olive wood, satin steel, brass
  • Trim: brass, steel
  • Nib: 18k gold
  • Filling system: piston
  • Packaging: special
  • Length: 151 mm
  • Diameter: 18.5 mm

LIMITED EDITION

  • 500 Fountain Pens
  • 500 Rollerball pens

SERIES

  • Genio Creativo

More information at MONTEGRAPPA.COM

The Chicago Riverwalk has Food, Music, Views and Great Art

Chicago is known by many names: The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City, Chi-Town, Chicagoland, Foodie Heaven. The Chicago Riverwalk is a great place to see all of that in action.