Melvin Sokolsky - Photographer

[stilista]

ahhh, I love this guy's work so much. I just die looking at these...circa 1963 (before Photoshop, haha)

www.sokolsky.com

 

[stilista]

aahhh,

vogue 2002

 

[Hana_N]

I like these, they seem so glamorous and carefree to me, I esspecially like the first one in your second post, and a great link too.

I really like these too.

 

[stilista]

^ These were the ones for Harpers in 2002? They're so lovely.

 

[Hana_N]

^ Yes those are the ones.

I like that bubble editorial very much, esspecially this image...

 

[.francesca]

wraparound magazine, issue 4, had a really good interview with sokolsky.
unfortunately, the magazine is now defunct, but i have it kicking around somewhere,
maybe if i have the wherewithall i'll transcribe some of it.
if anyone can find the magazine though, you should pick it up..sorry to see it go under after 5 issues.

-edit- that's a very nice little avatar!

 

[Estella*]

very beautiful, stilista!
i like these from "worlds" series...magritte-like:

(ideed a very nice avatar, francesca!)

 

[luxmode]

^ I love those .

Thanks for the link stilista! I've seen the bubbles and the Twiggy pics but not the others...great stuff.

I like these too:

 

[ChrissyM]

All of the photos are so creative and beautiful! I love the bubble ones . . . a few years back there was a spread with Ben Stiller and I forget which model . . . but it was in the same style and there was a bubble photo and some floating images as well . . . I don't know if sokolsky did those but they were very similar . . .



If I wasn't studying abroad in London right now I would rifle through my enormous piles of magazines and scan it in

 

[Yppe]

Thanks for the link !
The pictures are so creative and dreamy! The only ones I had seen before are the bubbles, which I adore, but the others are new for me.

 

[Yppe]

From the link posted before, I like these

 

[Yppe]

And these

 

[Tinetush]

I love them as well, and I've probably spend too much time looking at them on his website.
I love the flying- and bubbles once

 

[MulletProof]

he's amazing. i love his work.
i'll scan one of his recent (2001) editorials from bazaar

 

[Estella*]

o yes!

 

[MulletProof]

my scanner is being a bit of a b*tch today so sorry for the low quality of the pics.. :

from bazaar march 2002.
and then sorry about the size

 

[Arug]

I have always loved this shot!! People flying..

 

[MulletProof]

i may be hungry right now but i'm really loving his pics of food

 

[Hana_N]

I dont' really find those pictures appetizing, but still very wonderful images, thanks!

 

[iperlchen]

........ very impressive This must be one of the best works I've seen recently, wow. He's like a modern magician. The photos with the woman in the bubble are truly amazing, I always feel a bit like that, floating around in my own world where nobody sees what I'm really at. Not in the sense that I'm autistic or anything I guess everybody around here knows what I mean. Can you believe it, they were shot in '63!!! Holy sheep.
I can just sit here and gaze at those pics for hours, I could write books at the size of a shoebox about each of them. The whole surreal scene which he always remains true to is what draws me in so much.

Thanks so much Mullet, you're a doll for scanning that editorial I'm afraid I'll have to make a new avatar