Marc Hispard

” Marc Hispard est un photographe de mode français de renommée internationale. Déjà très épris de photographie dès son plus jeune âge, il commença à l’âge de 15 ans à travailler dans un laboratoire photographique afin d?apprendre les bases du métier et pris des cours du soir en parallèle à “l’Ecole du Louvres”.

A 18 ans, il devint photographe professionnel et commença à travailler au “Jardin des Modes”. Ensuite, il travailla pour les plus grands magazines de mode internationaux, tels que : Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Queen Magazine, etc.

Il a également réalisé de nombreuses campagnes publicitaires pour des sociétés majeures dont : L’Oréal, Revlon, Dior, Biotherm, Estée Lauder ou Givenchy. Il a photographié les plus beaux mannequins du monde : Karen Mulder, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Estelle,parmi d’autres.

La lumière, les poses, les accessoires, l’arrière plan sont autant d’éléments utilisés pour sublimer la beauté et la personnalité de ses modèles.

Ses photographies ont été exposées dans différentes galeries à Tokyo et à Paris ainsi que dans des foires d’Art internationales.

… l’étonnante collaboration entre Marc Hispard et le peintre argentin Ruben Alterio, qui associe figuration et abstraction entre le noir et blanc et la couleur. Ce travail est l’aboutissement de deux années de recherche ayant pour objectif d’établir un dialogue entre leur art respectif alliant l’oeuvre photographique et l’oeuvre picturale. Les photos de mode de Marc Hispard deviennent la partie narrative de l’oeuvre et le point de départ du travail pictural de Ruben Alterio. … “

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Cuban Evolution: Photographs by Joakim Eskildsen

Havana’s most famous street, the Malecón, as a cold front rolls in.

Delvis Montero, 39, works seven days a week making charcoal and earns $100 a month. “I work hard so my children can go to school and never have to do this extremely hard work,” she said.

At the Puerto Escondido fishermen’s village, a welder repairs the carriage they use to move fish into town.

An old American car, long a staple of Cuban roads, sits along Guanabo Beach, near Havana.

At night, neighbors leave their doors open to let the breeze in.

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via time

Transylvania Hay Country by Rena Effendi

The whole Borca family, from Breb, puts finishing touches on one of the 40 haystacks it makes each summer.

More sheep used to graze in the highest mountain pastures, but an increasing number of flocks now occupy fields near the villages. Some shepherds say that sheep in the lowland meadows are less beautiful, perhaps because there’s less rain than in the surrounding highlands to wash them off.

Corn is shelled, then fed to the cattle. Ion Petric and his wife, Maria Vraja, who live in Breb, help out their neighbors’ daughter, seven-year-old Adriana Țânțaş. Transylvanian family life and village life remain intimately bound up with the needs and services of farm animals.

Cousins Anuța and Magdalena Mesaroș, 17, are on their way to a wedding in Sat Șugatăg, Maramureș.

Every member of a Transylvanian family plays a part in the farming life. Eight-year-old Anuța, from Bogdan Vodă in the north, helps with the cows and sheep.

Mothers and grandmothers like Maria Pop, from Cornești, spinning raw wool at home, devote hundreds of hours a year to making traditional embroidered clothes for their families.

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Rena Effendi Photography

from nationalgeographic

Katy Perry by Annie Leibovitz

Beauty and the Beat: Katy Perry’s First Vogue Cover
by Vicki Woods | photographed by Annie Leibovitz

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for the story and more photos

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Oskar Barnack and the prototype Leica

From 1914, Oskar Barnack (1879–1936), the inventor of the Leica, used the prototype camera he developed, today known as the Ur-Leica, for photography. He captured various events in entire series of photographs and became one of the earliest photographers to document the relationships between man and the environment.

For instance, his photography of the floods in Wetzlar in 1920 is now considered to be the first reportage series shot with a 35 mm still film camera.

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Oskar barnack

The award named after this photographic pioneer was first awarded in 1979, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Oskar Barnack’s birth.

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Maria Valverde and Mario Casas by Bernardo Doral

Cute couple Maria Valverde and Mario Casas stars for the July issue of Spanish Elle magazine, photographed by Bernardo Doral and styled by Inmaculada Jiménez.

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Maria Valverde & Mario Casas by Bernardo Doral for Elle Spain July 2013

from fashnberry

Britney Spears | Shape Magazine June 2013

The 31-year-old pop Singer Britney Spears is on the cover of Shape magazine for the June 2013 issue. Britney Spears reveals her calorie burning secrets, favorite workout routine, and diet tips.

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from kopacharmer.blogspot.ca