Tag: fashion photography

October 17, 2014 /

Portrait by Horst – Loretta Young NY 1941

As a typical example of wartime escapism, the Rita Hayworth film Cover Girl (1944) provided Horst with the opportunity to produce one of his most sumptuous film-star covers in a montage of seven different portraits of the cover girl Susann Shaw set against a silk design. His picture of Loretta…

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November 21, 2013 /

Camelot

But there’s this one thing I wanted to say… I’m so ashamed of myself… When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical… no, don’t protect me now… I kept saying to Bobby, I’ve got to talk to somebody, I’ve got to see somebody, I want to say this one thing,…

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November 21, 2013 /

The Kennedys – photo by Mark Shaw, Hyannisport, 1959

May 19, 2013 /

THE DATE – PART V – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART V: BECAUSE MY LOVE FOR YOU WOULD BREAK MY HEART IN TWO Who Am I? Who Will I Be Now? Rhodes Cardell or Will Makepeace? Those questions haunted him as the day of the date came closer and closer like the waters from an on-rushing river. A…

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May 15, 2013 /

THE DATE PART IV – OR, BE MY BABY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART IV; OR, BE MY BABY Rhodes Cardell appeared, more or less, his usual self. He was working on a shoot which involved copious part-concealed nudity, and numerous insouciant and cheeky requests of the “would you mind pointing your delicious decolletage a little more to the right, Alyssa”…

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May 13, 2013 /

PORTRAIT BY HORST – MERLE OBERON NY 1942

May 13, 2013 /

PORTRAIT BY HORST – MYRNA LOY NY 1942

May 13, 2013 /

POTRAIT BY HORST – MARLENE DIETRICH NY 1942

May 8, 2013 /

THE DATE PART III – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART III; OR, I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN A date with Isabella Arden! Rhodes Cardell’s mask of insouciant cool cracked, and the face of Will Makepeace could be glimpsed beneath. The same face, but also not. Rhodes’s expression on hearing Isabella affirm that she would, wonder…

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May 5, 2013 /

THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

Photograph by Herb Ritts . THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN . Rhodes Cardell was used to being around women, *lots* of women; often in varying states of undress. He was, he pretended, inured to female nudity, not an eyelid did he bat at an undraped feminine form…

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