Miscellaneous Babes

Poster for Madonna, live at the Red Parrot, probably in 1984.

Tim Walker, Lily and Spiral Staircase, shot in Wadhwan in Gujarat, India. From UK Vogue, July 2005

Toyen, Schlafende, 1937.

Toyen was a Czech avant garde surrealist artist who worked mainly with erotic subject matter. Her style (of photo collages) seems to have been an influence on Linder Sterling.

Photo by Richard Burbridge. He has a really graphic high-contrast style that I like. He also seems to favor neon colors, as do I!

Uwe Ommer, 1984 Pirelli Calendar

The 1984 Pirelli calendar, shot by Uwe Ommer, is sexy and cool and hilarious, all at the same time.

The Pirelli calendars have been published annually since 1964 by the tire company of the same name (except for a break between 1975-83). It's a limited-supply high-art nudie calendar given as a corporate gift to important customers. Over the years, the calendars have been shot by several of the most super-major-popular fashion photographers out there, and its featured pretty much every famous model you can think of.

Miscellaneous Nonsense

Essie nail polish

Vintage mini-dress by 60's artist Peter Max

Interior of Elvis Costello's Armed Forces (1978) by Barney Bubbles.

Candy!!!

Miscellaneous Babes

Iman in the 1985 Pirelli Calendar by Norman Parkinson

A 13-year old Brooke Shields in 1978. This photo, shot by Richard Avedon, was run in Vogue to promote Pretty Baby.

Everything about this photo is beautiful. And holy crap to that earring!!

Sheena Easton

Shalom Harlow

Faye Dunaway in Vanity Fair, the morning after winning a Best Actress Oscar for Network in 1977

Konrad Klapheck

Konrad Klapheck is a German pop-art/surrealist painter, favoring "ironic treatment of everyday mechanics." Below is some of his machine-focused work. I would imagine that the marching hammers in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" were inspired by Klapheck's paintings.

Konrad Klapheck, Das Opfer (The Victim), 1989

Konrad Klapheck, Der Krieg (War), 1965

Konrad Klapheck, Die Fanatikerin (The Fanatic), 1979

 Konrad Klapheck, no info

Konrad Klapheck, Der Mütterliche Vater (The Mother's Father), 1977

Burt Glinn

Burt Glinn (1925-2008) was an American photojournalist. He has shot stories for Esquire, Geo, Travel and Leisure, Fortune, Life and Paris-Match, and was revered for shooting Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba

Barcelona, 1960

Women passing through a wool market. Marrakesh, Morocco,  1971. 

 

Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein. New York, 1965.

Baron Guy de Rothschild and family in the paddock during the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly Racetrack. Chantilly, France, 1978.

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just before the closing bell. New York, 1979.

Miscellaneous

Probably Carnival in Rio.

Halston and models. Anjelica Houston is seated in the front on the right. This photo was used for promotion of Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston.

1956 Nissan Datsun Sedan

Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles

 

This is the Fast Product UK 7" released in 1979. Download the song by option-clicking this link.

Balmain by Mark Shaw

In the staging area of Pierre Balmain's 1954 couture presentation, shot by Mark Shaw.

Gang of Four

One of my absolute faves, Gang of Four, playing To Hell with Poverty on The Old Grey Whistle Test, April 11, 1981.

The singer dances kind of funny, but I'll let it ride since they are beyond awesome