Miss Moss » portraiture

Brittany Nicol Fabry

Miss Moss — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:47:19 +0000

Brittany Nicol Fabry takes beautiful portraits. i would love to be photographed by (someone as talented as) her.

all photographs by Brittany Nicol Fabry

Mariam Sitchinava

Miss Moss — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:03:37 +0000

i’ve posted about mariam sitchinava before, and she proves to be a consistent favourite every time i check in and see her new work. some of her latest stuff is too good not to share – here are some of my favourites (tough to choose). i really love the work she did for sessun / urban outfitters, see more of that here.

all by mariam sitchinava

Michael Wells

Miss Moss — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:17:57 +0000

michael wells is a photographer whose portfolio spans from interiors to portraiture to landscapes to cityscapes to other interesting work like the border projects… i got lost in it for quite a while, i tell you. i am particularly drawn to his interior shots that are so richly hued, and the same can be said for his portraits which are also magnificent. go have a browse.

Sunshine, I saw you through the hanging vine…

Miss Moss — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:54:27 +0000

it might be time to get out my old camera out and play around with some black and white film again. quite tricky, but so worth it when you manage to get it right. here are some old and new black & white photos i’ve been enjoying.

- blanca galindo

- old chum

- mark peckmezian

- what makes the pie shops tick?

- szamil

rainy day special

Miss Moss — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:30:00 +0000

a series i love so much i actually have to hold myself back from making more. trying to keep these relatively few and far between because i know that if i didn’t they would become boring. it would be like eating pancakes every day. where’s the fun in that? pancakes are so good because you only have them now and then – usually when it’s raining. apparently only a south african / afrikaans thing … or … something only my mom did? consequently not a rainy day goes by without the thought of pancakes now. anyway, i think you get it. colour comparisons = pancakes in this roundabout analogy.

see the rest of the colour comparisons.

ps: it’s not actually raining here, but i hope it is somewhere.

lee oliviera / maurice denis – parisians at the seaside, evening

altamira / william merritt chase – portrait of miss e.

streetstyle aesthetic / charles w. hawthorne – woman in green

style sightings / charles ernest rodolphe henri lehmann – faustine leo

trendy crew / mucha – portrait of maruska

vanessa jackman / edouard manet – parisienne, portrait of madame jules guillemet

the sartorialist / charles w. hawthorne – the lovers

the sartorialist / mary cassatt – the letter

do you realise? that you have the most beautiful face.

Miss Moss — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:56:37 +0000

do you realise? that you have the most beautiful face
do you realise? we’re floating in space
do you realise? that happiness makes you cry
do you realise? that everyone you know someday will die

i love this song. thanks flaming lips.

- by moxette

- by chrissie white

- by julie lansom

- by varya vedeneeva

- by paradoks cat

john kelso

Miss Moss — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:30:24 +0000

i clicked through to john kelso‘s website after following his work on flickr for a while, and he opens with:

my name is john kelso. i like to take pictures and play with my dog (copernicus)

copernicus! if that doesn’t spark INSTANT LIKABILITY … then his photographs surely will.

Figure / Figure

Miss Moss — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:01:02 +0000

arleen whelan / robert henri – edna

luise rainer / egon schiele – edith schiele seated

sophia loren / gustav klimt – portrait of johanna staude

gary cooper / gustave courbet – the desperate man (aka the man made by fear)

marilyn monroe / john white alexander – june

june allyson / tatiana gorb – schoolgirl*

*thanks vladimir

Portrait / Portrait

Miss Moss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:05:39 +0000

i’ve been looking for a reason to do another one of these posts. truth is they’ve been featured on some of my favourite blogs lately, and i’ve received many kind emails from readers saying how much they like them. man, people on the internet are nice! so i dipped into my folders of saved vintage photos (all from doctor macro) & paired them with portraits that i love. ended up making way too many for one post… more to come later.

marilyn monroe / al greco – a lady in a fur wrap

susan hayward / ivan g. olinsky – serviceman’s wife

james dean / charles w. hawthorne

janet leigh / leigh louise gadbois

natalie wood / picasso - la toilette

sharon tate / félix vallotton – la liseuse

attribute portraits

Miss Moss — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:00:55 +0000

i bookmarked these portraits by jelmar geertsma before i even had the blog, and by some happy circumstance rediscovered them this week when i was trawling through old favourites on a mission to find something else (don’t you love it when that happens?) things organised neatly and portraiture all in one = yes. jelmar explains,

series of portraits i’m making of my family … the portraits are made up of attributes that each of us have for our hobbies or work. the upper-right corner shows painted portraits as well, which are painted by my father.