n 1974, at the age of 36, Romy Schneider felt the need to prove that she was still beautiful. She called the Italian photographer Giancarlo Botti. The photoshoot took place in her Parisian apartment and lasted over eight hours. Botti remembers the session as, “one of the longest of...

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According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the mask hides as much as it reveals, “denies as much as it affirms.” Silent, it often holds a secret to which only the initiated are privy.

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Born in San Francisco in 1895, Louise Dahl-Wolfe took her first pictures in 1923. In 1936, she joined Carmel Snow, Alexey Brodovitch and Diana Vreeland, respectively, the editor-in-chief, artistic director and fashion editor of the magazine Harper’s Bazaar. Her collaborat...

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In 1936, John Rawlings joined British Vogue as an assistant to photographers Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst et Irving Penn. In 2001, Kohle Yohannan, an archivist at Condé Nast, discovered a vast collection of his photographs, which became the book John Rawlin...

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In the 1940s and 50s, Edward Pfizenmaier (b. 1926) was an assistant at Vogue, working with famous photographers like Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn. He is known for his scenes from New York city, his fashion photography, and his celebrity portraits of Salvad...

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Henriette Theodora Marcovitch, the muse and companion of Pablo Picasso, better known as Dora Maar, was one of the most important Surrealist photographers. She spent time with André Breton, Georges Bataille, Paul Eluard and Man Ray, whose assistant she became before opening her o...

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Somewhere amid clouds of smoke and alcoholic fumes, artists, painters, poets, writers and thinkers discuss and remake the world, finding their inspiration in the Parisian bistros, turning them into their headquarters. “Bacchus never said what was in his blood. He hated reading w...

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In the 1920s, Baron Adolphe de Meyer, nicknamed “the Debussy of photography,” worked as a photographer for Condé Nast Publications, where he was commissioned by the cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden to shoot one of their advertising campaigns.

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The artist and his muse... an inseparable pair in the arts, embodied in painting, sculpture and music by the myth of Pygmalion. A tour of this relationship.

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Anne Brigman (1869-1950) was a member of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous photographs were taken between 1900 and 1920, depicting nude women in naturalistic settings. In 1894, she married Martin Brigman, a sea captain. She began taking pictures in 1902, the s...

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