Foto?? No:i disegni a penna Bic più realistici!

Ad una rapida occhiata possono apparire come vere e proprie fotografie, ma in realtà si tratta di disegni a mano eseguiti con una normale penna a sfera Bic. Le opere sono dell'artista spagnolo Juan Francisco Casas che utilizza fino a quattro 14 penne a sfera per creare i suoi disegni incredibilmente realistici. I suoi disegni misurano fino a 3 metri di altezza e l'utilizzo di penne a sfera rendono i suoi disegni ancora più singolari giocando un ruolo importante per il suo successo.

Clifford Coffin

Major General Clifford Coffin VC, CB, DSO & Bar (10 February 1870 – 4 February 1959) was an Englishrecipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was 47 years old, and a temporary brigadier general in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army, Commander 25th Infantry Brigade during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 31 July 1917 in Westhoek, Belgium, when his command was held up in attack owing to heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, Brigadier-General Coffin went forward and made an inspection of his front posts. Although under the heaviest fire from both machine-guns and rifles and in full view of the enemy, he showed an utter disregard of personal danger, walking quietly from shell-hole to shell-hole, giving advice and cheering his men by his presence. His gallant conduct had the greatest effect on all ranks and it was largely owing to his personal courage and example that the shell-hole line was held.

He later achieved the rank of major general.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham, Kent.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (November 19, 1895 – December 11, 1989) was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.Dahl was born in San Francisco, California to Norwegian immigrant parents. In 1914 she began her studies at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) where she stayed for six years. She studied design, decoration and architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1923. In 1928 she married the sculptorMeyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos. Dahl-Wolfe was known for taking photographs outdoors, with natural light in distant locations from South America to Africa in what became known as "environmental" fashion photography. She preferred portraiture to fashion photography. Notable portraits include: Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Eudora Welty, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Orson Welles, Carson McCullers, Edward Hopper, Colette and Josephine Baker. She is known for her role in the discovery of a teenage Lauren Bacall who she photographed for the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar. She was a great influence on photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. One of her assistants was fashion and celebrity photographer, Milton H. Greene.

From 1933 to 1960, Dahl-Wolfe operated a New York City photographic studio that was home to the freelance advertising and fashion work she made for stores includingBonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue. From 1936 to 1958 Dahl-Wolfe was a staff fashion photographer at Harper’s Bazaar. From 1958 until her retirement in 1960, Dahl-Wolfe worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and other periodicals.

Louise Dalhl-Wolfe lived many of her later years in Nashville, Tennessee. She died in New Jersey of pneumonia in 1989. The full archive of Dahl-Wolfe's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of her work.

In 1999, her work was the subject of a documentary film entitled Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light. The film featured the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews. It was written and directed by Tom Neff, edited by Barry Rubinow and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell.

John Rawlings

John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rawlings left a significant body of work, including 200Vogue magazine and Glamour magazine covers to his credit and 30,000 photos in archive, maintained by curator Kohle Yohannan.

Rawlings was in the elite circle of top Vogue photographers Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, and George Platt Lynes. The photographer's recently rediscovered archive includes photographs of stage, screen, and society stars of the 1940s and 1950s, including Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dali, Veronica Lake, Bridget Bate Tichenor and Montgomery Clift.

Horst P. Horst

Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann conosciuto anche come Horst P. Horst (Weißenfels, 14 agosto 1906 – Palm Beach, 18 novembre 1999) è stato un fotografo tedesconaturalizzato statunitense, conosciuto per le sue fotografie di donne e di moda scattate mentre lavoravano. Horst nacque a Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, in Germania, da Klara Schönbrodt e Max Bohrmann. Suo padre era un mercante di successo. Durante la sua adolescenza, conobbe la danzatrice Eva Weidemann a casa di suo zio , che accese il suo interesse per l'arte Avanguardia. Nei tardi anni venti, Horst studiò a Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, posto che lasciò per andare a Parigi a studiare con l'architetto Le Corbusier.Mentre era a Parigi, fece amicizia con molte persone della comunità artistica e fu presente a molte gallerie. Nel 1930 conobbe il fotografo di Vogue, Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, un nobile mezzo Baltico e mezzo americano, divenendone amante. Viaggiò in Inghilterra con lui quell'inverno. Là visitarono il fotografo Cecil Beaton, che stava lavorando per l'edizione inglese di Vogue. Nel 1931, Horst iniziò la sua associazione con Vogue, pubblicando la sua prima foto nell'edizione francese di Vogue nel novembre di quell'anno.

La sua prima mostra fu tenuta a La Plume d'Or a Parigi nel 1932. Fu fatta una recensione da Janet Flanner del The New Yorker, e questa, apparsa dopo la chiusura della mostra, fece diventare Horst istantaneamente famoso. Horst fece un ritratto di Bette Davis lo stesso anno, primo di una serie di ritratti di celebrità che voleva fotografare durante la sua vita. In due anni aveva fotografato tra le altre Noel Coward, Yvonne Printemps, Lisa Fonssagrives, Natasha Paley, Scremin Marco, Cole Porter, Elsa Schiaparelli.

Horst affittò un appartamento a New York nel 1937 e mentre risiedeva là conobbe Coco Chanel Chanel che Horst chiamò la regina di tutte le cose (the queen of the whole thing). Fece fotografie delle sue linee di moda per tre decenni.

Conobbe Valentine Lawford, nel 1938 e vissero insieme come coppia fino alla morte di Lawford, avvenuta nel 1991. Adottarono e crebbero insieme un figlio, Richard J. Horst.

Nel 1940, Horst prese la cittadinanza degli Stati Uniti. Entrò nell'esercito il 2 luglio 1943. Il 21 ottobre ricevette la cittadinanza americana come Horst P. Horst. Così divenne fotografo dell'esercito, e la maggior parte dei suo lavori venne stampata sulla rivista Belvoir Castel. Nel 1945 fotografò il Presidente degli Stati Uniti Harry S. Truman del quale divenne amico, e, in seguito, tutte le first ladies del secondo dopoguerra all'invito alla Casa Bianca.

Nel 1947, Horst si spostò a Oyster Bay, New York. Disegnò da solo la costruzione bianca di stucco, con design ispirato dalle case che aveva visto in Tunisia durante la sua relazione con Hoyningen-Huene.Negli anni sessanta, incoraggiato dall'editrice di Vogue Diana Vreelnd, Horst iniziò una serie di fotografie che illustravano il modo di vita dell'alta società internazionale. Gli articoli vennero scritti dal compagno del fotografo, Valentine Lawford, un diplomatico inglese. Da questo momento fino quasi al giorno della sua morte, Horst spese la maggior parte del suo tempo viaggiando e fotografando. A metà degli anni settanta, iniziò a lavorare per House & Garden.Morì a casa sua a Palm beach Gardens, in Florida, all'età di 93 anni.

George Hoyningen-Huene

 Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900 - 1968) was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Russia to Baltic German and Americanparents and spent his working life in France, England and the United. States.Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September 4, 1900, Hoyningen-Huene was the only son of Baron Barthold Theodor Hermann (Theodorevitch) von Hoyningen-Huene (1859-1942), a Baltic nobleman, military officer and lord of Navesti manor (near Võhma), and his wife, Emily Anne "Nan" Lothrop (1860-1927), a daughter of George Van Ness Lothrop, an American minister to Russia. (The couple was married in Detroit, Michigan, in 1888.) He had two sisters. Helen (died 1976) became a fashion designer in France and the United States, using the name Helen de Huene. Elizabeth (1891-1973), also known as Betty, also became a fashion designer (using the name Mme. Yteb in the 1920s and 1930s) and married, first, Baron Wrangel, and, second, Lt. Col. Charles Norman Buzzard, a British Army officer.During theRussian Revolution, the Hoyningen-Huenes fled to first London, and later Paris. By 1925 George had already worked his way up to chief of photography of the French Vogue. In 1931 he met Horst, the future photographer, who became his lover and frequent model^{[citation needed]} and traveled to England with him that winter. While there, they visited photographer Cecil Beaton, who was working for the British edition of Vogue.
In 1931, Horst began his association with Vogue, publishing his first photograph in the French edition of Vogue in November of that year.In 1935 Hoyningen-Huene moved to New York City where he did most of his work for Harper's Bazaar. He published two art books on Greece and Egypt before relocating to Hollywood, where he earned his wedge by shooting glamorous portraits for the film industry.

Hoyningen-Huene worked in huge studios and with whatever lighting worked best. Beyond fashion, he was a master portraitist as well from Hollywood stars to other celebrities.^{[original research?]}

He also worked in Hollywood in various capacities in the film industry, working closely with George Cukor, notably as special visual and color consultant for the 1954 Judy Garland movie A Star Is Born. He served a similar role for the 1957 film Les Girls, which starred Kay Kendall and Mitzi Gaynor, the Sophia Loren film Heller in Pink Tightsand The Chapman Report.

In 1952 his cousin Baron Ernst Lyssardt von Hoyningen-Huene, whom he had adopted, married Nancy Oakes, the daughter of the gold mining tycoon Sir Harry Oakes.That union lasted until 1956 and produced one son Baron Alexander von Hoyningen-Huene, also known as Sasha.He died at 68 years of age in Los Angeles