Miscellaneous Babes

Beverly Johnson 

Naomi Campbell as featured on the cover of Time in the "Totem Pole" Dress from Isaac Mizrahi's Fall 1991 collection.

 Lara Stone by Peter Lindbergh, Vogue China, January 2012

Chris Roer by Albert Elgort, US Vogue, August 1975

Gisele Zelauy for Moschino, est. late 80's

Nedege du Bospertus in Valention, est. early 90's

Anjelica Huston for Dior Cosmetics, 1973. Shot by Sarah Moon

James Chance

I'm on a James Chance kick lately. He's one of the coolest sax-playing No-Wave heroes of late 70's NYC (Yes, there are actually more than one.) He was in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, and James White and the Blacks. His music is aggressive, funky disco-punk mixed with free form jazz. YES!

Brian Eno likes it. 

With the late Anya Phillips who was his girlfriend, manager, and muse. She's a super cool No-Wave hero too.
She died too early in life, in 1981 of cancer.

With Richard Hell.

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Ok, now time to watch videos and hear the songs:

James Chance & The Contortions - Contort Yourself  live at the M-80 Festival, Minneapolis, 09/23/1979. Wish I could have been there!!

James White & The Blacks - Sax Maniac

James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself 

James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself  This version is different than The Contortions version, more disco and funky.

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James Chance's website

Old Friends

 Joan Jett

John Cusack

Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash, by Laura Levine

David Bowie, by Denis O'Reagan, 1983

The Go-Go's

Miscellaneous

Designers and Models, Bez Ocko and Claudia McNulty, wearing their line Bias/Buy Us, 1979.

Chloe, Spring 1997

Berry Berenson in Stephen Sprouse, Interview Magazine, June 1984

Naomi Campbell for Kenzo, Spring 1992

Chantal Thomass ad, 1982

Rennie Ellis

Rennie Ellis (1940-2003) was a documentary photographer from Australia, who shot varied subject matter from smutty to serious. I enjoy some of these smutty ones from Australian nightclubs in the age of decadence.

From top to bottom:

Embrace, Berlin Party, Inflation, Melbourne c.1981

Le Louvre Parade, Chasers, Melbourne 1979

Life's a Parade, Melbourne 1985

Get Down, Inflation, Melbourne c.1980 

Michelle, Windsor c.1978

Jenny Bannister Plastic Tutus, Big Top Sportsgirl Parade, 1979

Miscellaneous

Where is this? Who saw it? How come no one took it apart? What else is there? How will I ever find out?

UPDATE: Thanks so much to Stefano, who has let me know that this was taken by Kyle Telechan in  2009. Its title is Abandoned Ferris Wheel. The photographer doesn't remember the exact location of it, other than it's in North Carolina.

FURTHER UPDATE: Digging deeper, I found that it's actually in Mercer County, Virginia, at the "haunted" Lake Shawnee amusement park. There are shit-tons of personal accounts of people who spent time there to wade through at photographer Karen Steuben's website (though very many of the stories are nearly intelligible due to their poor grammar and writing skills.)  There is interesting history of the site as it was a Native American-Colonists' battleground, leading to cursed land, leading to present-day hauntings.

Beach babes are so brave, ca. 1930's

1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo concept car, by Pininfarina. See how the roof slides forward to open? It must not rain if you plan to drive, or the car will totally get messed up on the inside.

 The media in the 1920's declared Paul Whiteman as the King of Jazz.

Poster remake for Jim Jarmusch's 2003 film, Coffee and Cigarettes. The clever design by Viktor Hertz is a big improvement over the original (in terms of design, anyway.)

Miscellaneous Babes

From Helmut Newton's Pirelli calendar, 1985

Susan (no last name) and Debbie Harry, 1977, shot by Swiss photographer and filmmaker, Edo Bertoglio. 

Bertoglio was a regular on the downtown NY art scene in the late 70's and early 80's. He made Downtown 81 (aka New York Beat Movie) with Maripol, starring Jean Michel Basquiat (and tons of my other favorites: James Chance, Kid Creole, Tish & Snooky, Roberta Bayley, John Lurie...the list goes on and on). It was shot in 1981, but wasn't released until 2000.

A 1970's makeup ad. I don't think they make it any more, but I seem to remember my mom having this brand around when I was a little kid.

My inclination is that this is a French new wave band called the Modernes, but I am really having a hard time verifying that.  JohnnyM let me know that this is an '80s French synthpop duo, Elli & Jacno, and that the photo is by Pierre René-Worms from 1981. Here is their MySpace page.

It says all that in the caption, and I tried to look up what I thought it might say, but it was too small to read!

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Mid-80's ad for Yves St. Laurent makeup

Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley of the Human League. I referenced Sulley in my overall look last week.

A shot from The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film.

One of my favorite design teams, Viktor & Rolf, shot by Amsterdam-based portraitists Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm. This was a great pairing because both Viktor & Rolf and Blommers & Schumm do really entertaining and clever work.

Miscellaneous

Orville Robertson

Alex Katz

Public Image Ltd., Live in Tokyo. Virgin UK double LP, 1983.



Brooke Shields, East River, NYC.

Ad for Italian fashion brand, Basile; mid-80's. I haven't been able to find out whether or not they still make clothes, though their accessories are sold online through Forzieri.

Those foil palm trees are fun.

Miscellaneous Babes

A model from the Fall 2010 Katie Gallagher show. I'm digging the make-up of course.

Madonna. The lipstick is the best.

I thought that this would be a Maripol shot, but I can't find any evidence that it actually is.

Paulina Porizkova by Arthur Elgort. 

I know it looks like she is wearing flip-flops, but I am going to imagine that they are not. They in fact look something like these funky shoes I used to have that crisscrossed over the big toe. Let's just pretend they are the same ones.

Magazine ad for French men's brand, Renoma. Probably from 1986 or 87.

Miscellaneous: Really Random

David Byrne, Rei Momo, Luaka Bop/Sire US LP, 1989

Storytime: This album came out around the time I really started getting into Talking Heads. I am now going to chalk it up to being a 12-year-old child, but I felt so personally offended that David Byrne would move SO far away from what I knew about Talking Heads. I was really quite turned off from the album at first, but I listened to it many more times and got used to it, and eventually started loving it. I hadn't thought of it in quite a long time, but recently came across a video of him performing one of the songs at an awards show. He and his band really thrilled the audience and had them out of their seats.

About the cover: I am a fan of polkadots this scale and density, the color palette, and the general design. The typography is typical of the late-90's.

This is a bar in Tulum. We wanted to go there (based on the exterior alone) but it never opened the entire time we were there.

Kraftwerk

Debbie Harry; Not sure what the context of the photo is.