From YouTube: “Saint Laurent Rive Droite, through SL Editions, is pleased to present a new book, featuring Zoë Kravitz photographed by Henrik Purienne.” You can buy a copy of the book for $135 on YSL.com.
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Last weekend, my NYC-based photographer friend Nikola Tamindzic was part of an art show supporting NYC artists and featuring work they’d created during the pandemic. One of the prints he was selling was a photo he took of me, remotely, during the early days of the pandemic. What a delight to be included.
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My most recent piece for Forbes, why advertisers are pulling out of "Dating Naked":
"The recent ad removal was inspired by the Parents Television Council, which describes itself as 'A non-partisan educational organization advocating responsible entertainment,' but exists primarily to rid television programming of seemingly unseemly content."
"Inherent Vice." Paul Thomas Anderson's latest. Based on a novel by Pynchon. Steeped in the seventies. Martin Short is a perverted, drug-addicted dentist. Josh Brolin is a hammerheaded thug who occupies himself as a cop. Joaquin Phoenix is wild-eyed and girl-dewed. Bad guys are pursued. Cases pass one another in busy turnstiles. The sea rises, falls; the sun ebbs, flows. Katherine Waterston steals the show as a groovy chick who's as much trouble as she is hot. In the best scene in the movie, she appears nude (full bush) and seduces Doc and the camera and us with the gentle shoving of her foot. It's a little HST and totally groovy. Recommended, mellowly.
Dear. Ms. Susannah Breslin,
My name is [redacted], and I am writing to you on behalf of [redacted] in [redacted], CA. As a Feminist and an academic, I am familiar with your work analyzing the sex industry in America, and I appreciate your objective outlook on such a controversial subject. I am reaching out to see if you would be involved in a constructive discussion on erotica, specifically looking at artists like [redacted] and his platform, [redacted].
In addition to nude, pin-up style photography, [redacted] features [redacted].
I am looking for esteemed authors and journalists, such as yourself, to incorporate [redacted]'s work in the greater discussions of erotica in our society.
I would be interested to know what you think, and what points you might bring to the discussion. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you, and best regards.
[redacted]
I'm not clear what you are asking for here?
Susannah,
Thank you for responding. Based on your portfolio, your blog would be an excellent platform for discussion of how [redacted]’s work fits within the adult industry as a representative of erotica. Considering your mindful readership, I think this could spark an interesting debate.
We know [redacted] is one of countless “Adult-content” sites available, but his work seems to have an almost playful relationship between Models and Photographer.
Here at the office, we agree that because the models are presented respectfully and there is no degrading content on the site, [redacted] speaks to a certain fantasy style and should be classified as erotica. Is it soft? Hard? What’s the differentiating factor between the two? That’s for you and your readers to decide.
Let me know if that has answered your question, and I'll be happy to answer any others you may have.
[redacted]
Are you offering me compensation?
Unfortunately not, but I thought I would reach out to you because I really do appreciate your perspective and I am a fan of your writing. If you have any interest that would be great.
Thanks,
[redacted]
I think his work is terrible, and he's paying an ad company to ask bloggers to write about him for free. That's what I think. Does that help?
Thank you for your feedback, sorry to bother you.
via @yatzer
Image credit: @raisedbythewolvesau via This Isn't Happiness
Image credit: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Opines A.O. Scott:
"The movie is neither one of those things. It dabbles in romantic comedy and splashes around in melodrama, but the one thing it can’t be — the thing the novel so trashily and triumphantly is — is pornography. Ms. Taylor-Johnson’s sex scenes are not that much different from other R-rated sex scenes, though there are more of them and more hardware is involved. You know the routine: an arched neck, some curled toes, a buttock here, a breast there, a wisp of pubic hair, a muffled moan, another Beyoncé song. Maybe a riding crop for variety."
[NYT]
Can't wait to see the new Terrence Malick movie, "Knight of Cups." It stars Christian Bale and a ton of women.
From Vulture:
"All those naked women serve a deeper purpose.
Bale’s character certainly has his pick of babes: In addition to Portman, there’s Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Palmer, Katia Winter, and plenty more, all in various states of undress. He also gets intimate with Portman’s toes, which he tenderly sucks on during one of their lusty onscreen moments. ('Very nice,' he remarked when asked about the taste of her little piggies.)"
Image credit: Steven Klein
The full on, fully frontal, final set (???) of that shoot with Kim Kardashian can be found here.
Image credit: Steven Klein
The rest of those nakedish photos of Kim Kardashian are online.
Image credit: Vanity Fair
Oh, hey, it's Jennifer Lawrence naked in Vanity Fair. Well, not entirely naked because her outfit is a big snake.
Patrick Demarchelier snapped the pic which is an homage to this pic by Richard Avedon.
So it's OK for you to see her naked if she says it's OK to see her naked, but it's not OK for you to see her naked if she says it's not OK to see her naked.
Glad we cleared that up.
VF reports:
"Last July 29, on a Patrick Demarchelier shoot at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills, a giant Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor spent most of the day cooped up in a perforated, extra-large storage container managed by two very capable handlers. When it came time for the snake to take his star turn, there was frightfully little between him and Jennifer Lawrence—only a long metal rod with a hook at the end. The actress proved to be very brave and nonchalant about having a serpent wrapped around her body—an homage to the 1981 Richard Avedon Vogue portrait of Nastassja Kinski that launched a million dorm-room posters—and coolly focused her eyes on the camera."
One can assume they take pains to point out the date of the shoot in order to make clear the photo was done prior to her nude photo leaks last August.
[Vanity Fair via Fashion Copious]
