Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Photo Exhibition in MEDIUM MAGAZINE : On the Rooftops of Los Angeles


Model: Miss Trishy, Films: Ilford B/W 400
Style: Editorial Fashion Story


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You can view the full set of this editorial ( On the Rooftops of Los Angeles ) in MEDIUM MAGAZINE :
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MEDIUM Magazine is a quarterly portfolio of photography, illustration, art, design, writing, music, film and live Events.
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I have to thank lovely Trish for being such a wonderful model and person.
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, NYC
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Three photos of the day : moonlight memory



Model: Miss N., Films: Kodak B/W 400 & Fuji PRO 160 S
Style: Editorial Fashion Portrait
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water was calm
or so it pretended to be
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"where is she?"
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not in my arms
but close by
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there was a moonlight
memory
casting its light over us
in that warm night
with a taste of a kiss
of the back of her neck
with a taste of a kiss
of her wet skin
and the touch of my finger tips
which were burning inside out
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the moonlight memories
are here to stay
forever
or at least
till the day
I no longer
can delay my one way trip
into the world of unknown
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, NYC
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Three photos of the day : A moment of silence



Model: Miss L, Film: Ilford B/W 400
Style: Editorial Fashion + Sensual Portraits
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she drank it all
till no end was desired
anymore
breathing heavily
no control was needed
no more
run, run, run
she cried out
to no body
I don't belong here
her tears
were drying out
her pulse
was getting quieter and quieter
and her imminent death
was showing the road
carpeted with black marbles
under a black light
to nowhere
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all left
were memories
and an undying energy
to hang on to
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, NYC
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Three photos of the day : Smoking is bad for you



Model: Miss B., Film: Kodak B/W 400
Style: Editorial Fashion Portraits
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Smoking looks good in photographs...aesthetically for some reason, still brings back the memories of legends of cinema, art and fashion into mind.
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on the other hand:
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" Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.

Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.

Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion annually in health care costs.

A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.

Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.

Adolescent girls who smoke and take oral birth control pills greatly increase their chances of having blood clots and strokes."

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If you are still smoking, please try to quit today.
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, NYC
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портрет, чувственный, изобразительное искусство

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Five photos of the day : Sergei Parajanov





Model: Miss B., Film: Fuji PRO 160S
Style: Editorial Fashion + Conceptual + Sensual + Nude + Erotica Portraits
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I enjoy Sergei Parajanov's visions and use of medium to express not only his emotions but also his dreams, nightmares and as he puts it, the "truth". The poetry of Sayat Nova ( or Colors of Pomegranates or Цвет граната ) surpasses any pre conceived ideas about what can be done in cinema...if you haven't watched it before, you must and of course more than once.
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A little about Sergei Parajanov ( Сергей Иосифович Параджанов, Sergej Iosifovich Paradzhanov) :
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"Sergei Parajanov (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was a Soviet Armenian film director and artist.
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Tarkovsky's first film Ivan's Childhood (1962) had an enormous impact on Parajanov's self-discovery as a filmmaker of genius (later the influence became mutual, they were also close friends). In 1964 he abandoned socialist realism and directed the poetic Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, the first film in which he had complete creative control and which won numerous international awards. Unlike the subsequent The Color of Pomegranates, it was relatively well-received by the Soviet authorities.
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Parajanov departed from Kiev shortly afterwards for homeland of Armenia. In 1968, he embarked on Sayat Nova, a film which many consider to be his crowning achievement, though it was shot under relatively poor conditions and had a very small budget. Soviet censors intervened once again and immediately banned Sayat Nova for its allegedly inflammatory content.
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Parajanov re-edited his footage and renamed the film, The Color of Pomegranates. It remains his best-known and most emblematic film. There have been few films where soul and high art blend together as in Color of Pomegranates. Few films have had such sublime magic. Parajanov gave the world a rare film which represents a cinematic insight into the artistic mind. It best justifies critic Alexei Korotyukov's remark: "Paradjanov made films not about how things are, but how they would have been had he been God."
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By December 1973, Soviet authorities had grown suspicious of Parajanov's apparently subversive inclinations (particularly bisexuality) and sentenced him to five years in a hard labor camp in Siberia for "a rape of a Communist Party member, and the propagation of pornography." Three days before he was sentenced, Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine:
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”In the last ten years Sergei Paradjanov has made only two films: Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors and The Colour of Pomegranates. They have influenced cinema first in the Ukraine, second in this country as a whole, and third - in the world at large? Artistically, there are few people in the entire world who could replace Paradjanov. He is guilty - guilty of his solitude. We are guilty of not thinking of him daily and of failing to discover the significance of a master.”
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An diverse group of artists, filmmakers and activists protested on behalf of Parajanov, but to no avail (among them, Yves Saint Laurent, Françoise Sagan, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Mikhail Vartanov). Parajanov served four years out of his five year sentence, and later credited his early release to the efforts of the French Surrealist poet and novelist Louis Aragon, the Russian poet Elsa Triolet (Aragon's wife), and the American writer John Updike.
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While incarcerated Parajanov produced a large number of miniature doll-like sculptures (some of which were lost) and some 800 drawings and collages, many of which were later displayed in Yerevan, where the Parajanov Museum is now permanently located. The museum opened in 1991, the year after Parajanov’s death, and hosts more than 200 works as well as furnishings from his home in Tbilisi. His efforts int he camp were repeatedly compromised by prison guards, who deprived him of materials and called him mad, their cruelty only subsiding after a statement from Moscow admitted "the Director is very talented."
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In February 1982 Parajanov was imprisoned one final time, on charges of bribery, which happened to coincide with his return to Moscow for the premiere of a play commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky at the Taganka Theatre, and were affected with some degree of trickery. Despite another heavy sentence, he was freed in less than a year with his health seriously weakened.
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With the encouragement of various Georgian intellectuals, he created the multi-award winning Legend of Suram Fortress based on the novella by Daniel Chonkadze, his first return to cinema since Sayat Nova first premiered fifteen years earlier. In 1988 Parajanov made another multi-award winning film, Ashik Kerib, based on a story by Mikhail Lermontov. It tells of the life of a wandering minstrel and is set in the Azeri culture. Parajanov dedicated the later film to the memory of his close friend Andrei Tarkovsky and "to all the children from the world".
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He died of cancer in Yerevan, Armenia, on July 20, 1990, aged 66, leaving his final film, The Confession unfinished. It survives in its original negative as Parajanov: The Last Spring, assembled by his close friend Mikhail Vartanov in 1992. He left behind a book of memoirs of the same name.
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Such luminaries as Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra, Francesco Rosi, Alberto Moravia, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni and Bernardo Bertolucci were among those who publicly mourned his passing. In a telegram that came to Russia: "The world of cinema has lost a magician".
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Quotes
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"Direction is about truth. It's about God, love and tragedy"
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"Tarkovsky, who was younger than I by ten years, was my teacher and mentor. He was the first in Ivan's Childhood to use images of dreams and memories to present allegory and metaphor. Tarkovsky helped people decipher the poetic metaphor. By studying Tarkovsky and playing different variations on him, I became stronger myself... I did not know how to do anything and I would not have done anything if there had not been Ivan's Childhood."
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"Only good can overwhelm the evil" "
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, NYC
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Three photos of the day : girl with her electric guitar



Model: Miss B., Film: Ilford B/W 400
Style: editorial fashion + sensual portraits
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Three photos of the day : No Fly List



Model: Miss B., Film: Ilford B/W 400
Style: Editorial Fashion + Sensual/Erotica Portraits

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The topic has nothing to do with images.
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"The No Fly List, sometimes called the terrorist watch list, is a secret list created and maintained by the United States government of people who are not permitted to board a commercial aircraft for travel in or out of the United States. The list has also been used to divert away from U.S. airspace aircraft not flying to or from the U.S. It includes at least 1 million names as of March 2009." (1 million?!)
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" The list has raised civil liberties and due process concerns, due in part to the potential for ethnic, religious, economic, political, or racial profiling and discrimination. It has also raised concerns about privacy and government secrecy, as well as drawing criticism from the media. Political activists who were included in a surveillance operation that targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war have also been placed on the list. "
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"In August 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) told a Senate Judiciary Committee discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports.
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He said it had taken him three weeks of appeals directly to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to have him removed from the list. Kennedy said he was eventually told that the name "T Kennedy" was added to the list because it was once used as an alias of a suspected terrorist. There are an estimated 7,000 American men whose legal names correspond to "T Kennedy". (Senator Kennedy, whose first name is Edward and for whom "Ted" is only a nickname, would not be one of them.) Recognizing that as a U.S. Senator he was in a privileged position of being able to contact Ridge, Kennedy said of "ordinary citizens": "How are they going to be able to get to be treated fairly and not have their rights abused?"
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Former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani pointed to this incident as an example for the necessity to "rethink aviation security" in an essay on homeland security published while he was seeking the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election."
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"Are the No Fly List and Selectee List constitutional?
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The ACLU believes that the entire system of watch lists is unconstitutional, because it treats people as guilty without a trial, and deprives them of their freedoms without due process. The system will not make us safer, because it is an inherently inaccurate and ineffective security method. "
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Three photos of the day : red hair suits her



Model: Miss B., Film: Fuji PRO 160S
Style: Editorial fashion + a hint of sensual portraits
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LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Photo Exhibition in Karin + Raoul : "Яed Яeflection"

Model: Miss P., Film: Velvia

Style: Nude + Erotic + Romantic Portrait


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You can view the complete set of " Яed Яeflection " including a short poem in Karin + Raoul :
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http://www.karinandraoul.com/2009/07/03/%d1%8fed-%d1%8feflection-photography-by-wolf189/
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Cheers
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Wolf189

http://www.wolf189.com/
LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
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Friday, July 3, 2009

Three photos of the day : little pink dress and long legs of an Ukrainian model



Model: Miss Elizaveta, Film: Kodak Ultra 100
Style: Editorial Fashion Portrait
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people who are as loyal
as a hummingbird in a flower garden,
will end up with a string of shallow friendships
shorter than the length of a summer rain
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Three photos of the day : little pink dress, long legs and a cat




Model: Miss Elizaveta S., Film: Fuji color 400
Style: Editorial Fashion Portrait

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she wore
a little pink dress
and
not much more
aside the presence of a cat
in a horizon of gray
to protect the air
to keep her company
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Cheers
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Wolf189
LA, LV, Phoenix, NYC
волк189 фотография
портрет, чувственный, изобразительное искусство, поэзия