Does This Image Look familiar?...

[softgrey]

didn't craig mcdean (or somebody)..do some pictures of kate moss that looked remarkably like this image...??...except the red cross was painted and dripping...

anyone else remember that?..i am pretty sure it was in W mag...


this is a vogue cover from march 1945 by erwin blumenfeld..

 

[helena]

yes I think you are correct softgrey - I have a copy of that magazine at home.......

 

[softgrey]

i'd love it if someone could find that image and post it to compare...

i remembered it so well because i loved it...and i loved this one too...which is OBVIOUSLY the inspiration...

isn't it interesting when you find that stuff...??
i come across things like that pretty regularly...and i'm like...
"so THAT'S where they got the idea from"...

..

 

[Estella*]

yes, i remember the image!
this happens to me all the time and it's so thrilling..i was about to start a dejà vu thread a thousand times but then i always get stopped by not finding the images on the net/being too lazy to scan.

(helena and softgrey, now you both look very beautiful!)

 

[softgrey]

i thank you anna karina...at first i had no idea what you meant...
but now i realize you must mean the new avatars......

 

[urchin]

Hey! I finally found it, that is, the picture that you were talking about. There is a huge similarity

 

[urchin]

*bump* I'm proud of myself for finding the image of Kate

 

[softgrey]

omg urchin...~!...

yes...!!
so who shot it???...and where is it from?...do you know what year?...
and what does the rest of the story look like??...
...

 

[urchin]

The edit is shot by, as you guessed, Craig McDean for May 2001's W called "Role Model."
Here are some other scans I managed to find of the edit, scanned by Blackshine! Now, I could not find the big scan of the actual image in question but I am about 90% sure that it came from this editorial. About four images are missing from these scans so I can't be sure but in smaller versions of these scans I have on my computer, the White Cross image is grouped with them (same file name types). I'm sorry if that was completely incoherent because I'm not very good at explaining things






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[softgrey]

oh thank you urchin...you are beyond amazing!!...
and you made perfect sense...

it's def from this editorial...
i love you!!......

 

[VictoriaBlue]

Wow - those shots are amazing! Now that is one photographer that I would love to work with ... so much color!

 

[acester]

wow...amazing. God I love brilliant photography

 

[pinkyee]

beautiful! Craig McDean is one of my favorite~

 

[brian]

she's wearing dior haute couture in this picture...

 

[Estella*]

i just found this bert stern image while looking for mm-pictures and i think it's what i actually had in mind when i first saw your thread, softie...

 

[violet100]

Marilyn was actually responsible for the Stern image looking like that. I seem to remember him saying that she wanted to see all of the proof sheets before he developed any of the photographs, he then had them delivered to her and when she returned them she had marked all of the images she did not want him to use with the red pen so that they could never be printed. Unfortunately for her but fortunately for us, he used them anyway.

 

[Estella*]

^o yes, i remember i read that somewhere. thanks, violet. they can hardly have inspired blumenfeld, anyway, so he's the creative genius, but maybe mcdean had them in mind...
anyway, i love them.

 

[Estella*]

pj harvey by jürgen teller

sofia coppola for vogue paris (maybe this was shot by teller, too? does anyone remember?)

sources: foto_decadent and pollyharvey.co.uk/

 

[krizzlec]

when does inspiration become rip off?

didn't craig mcdean (or somebody)..do some pictures of kate moss that looked remarkably like this image...??...except the red cross was painted and dripping...

anyone else remember that?..i am pretty sure it was in W mag...


this is a vogue cover from march 1945 by erwin blumenfeld..

Hello everybody,
This is my first post here, and first and foremost I would like to say that this site has been an excellent source of information. Also I am very happy that people share my enthusiasm for fashion photography. Now my question with regards to the Craig McDean and Erwin Blumenfeld images is at what point does "inspiration" become a blatant rip off. Just a few months ago, in an issue of Clear magazine was some photographer, I think his name was Klas Stromme, whose editorial was a blatant rip off of Guy Bourdins images. Evrything from blood/paint coming out of the electric socket to that one shot with woman strected ove rthe couch looking into the mirror + alot more. The only difference with the images was the change in color schemes. Nowhere in this editorial is Guy Bourdon mentioned, nor does Craig McDean even mention Erwin Blumenfeld. It seems like fashion photography in the US is so closed and non-inviting for new ideas and thoughts that people are afraid to try new things or push their ideas. Its so competitive that they are simply redoing older photographs. I would love peoples opinions on this. I have been an assistant for the last 4 years and I cant even begin to tell you the amount of photographers that asked me how another photographer lights his images. Its honestly quite sad.
thanks,
krizzlec

 

[Monmonde]

Unoriginal Photographies

I don't think there is a thread like this already, but if so feel free to merge
Please upload picture that resembles another pic TOO MUCH
and its "inspiration"

sorry for my english

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Vogue Korea December 2005 "Christmas Fantasia"
Photographed by Jung Yong Sun

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US Vogue December 2003 - "Alice in Wonderland"
Photographed by Anne Leibovitz

both from cafe.daum.net/Bestdresser