Monday 13 October 2014

Autumn De Wilde

Remembering Elliott Smith, 2013 – Autumn De Wilde

Autumn De Wilde was born October 21, 1970 Her father, Jerry de Wilde, is an art and commercial photographer noted for his photos of Jimmy Hendrix and other pop icons. Autumn de Wilde had no formal education in photography, but learned photography from her father


She has photos for the covers of The White Stripes, Beck and many other stars. Her photos were seen on Los Angeles Times, The Rolling Stone Magazine and The New York Time Magazine. In 2011, her work was extensively featured in the Limited Edition Deluxe Box version of The Decemberists album The King Is Dead. The box set included a one-of-a-kind Polaroid photograph by Autumn from the Impossible Project/Decemberists series, as well as a 72-page hardcover book featuring over 250 unique Polaroid photographs by Autumn and illustrations by Carson Ellis.


Jack and Meg are ready for their close-up, 2008 – Autumn De Wilde

"Beck was the one who told me I should stop saying I wasn't really a photographer," A handful of photos were taken during breakfast the morning after de Wilde, met Smith, the late musician. It was the mid-'90s, the pair had been up most of the night drinking and talking, and de Wilde grabbed her Camera.

She is a quintessential hip photographer. Her compositions look staged and vintage quality. Her subject matter is cool and definitely not news. Her images have commercial appear and the story told is shallow, of the moment. I like the vintage style of her photos of generation 90’s fashion seekers before life got serious.

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh, 1908-2002,  was born in Marden, during the Armenian Genocide

"I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village."


Parents moved him in with his uncle in Canada. His uncle was a photographer and Yousuf learned a lot from his time with him. He took on an apprenticeship and eventually became head of a studio in Ontario

Ernest Hemingway for Wisdom magazine, June 1958 – Yousuf Karsh

Karsh was said to be a master of lights. Karsh states in one of his published books

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize."

He has photographed many famous people such as Muhammad Ali, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol and many others. Over a dozen books have been published of his photographs and his work is seen in museums and galleries throughout the world.

Karsh uses light and refraction to breathe life into his subjects. H doesn’t try to make his subjects look pretty or like someone they are not. He is just making the most of the contours of the physical l appearance like a landscape.

 Winston Churchill for Life Magazine, May 1941 - Yousuf Karsh

Jean Sibelius, 1949 – Yousuf Karsh (Haynes Galleries)

 Mohammad Ali, 1970 – Yousuf Karsh (Haynes Galleries)