i.art.rachel

6 April 2011

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

All photographs from Martina Hoogland Ivanow's new book Far Too Close published by SteidlMACK.
To see more work click here

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either - but love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves, and to break our hearts, and love the wrong people, and die. The storybooks are bullshit! Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!

Ronny Cammareri, talking to Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck (1987).
Classic.
And i heart Cher.

5 April 2011

Victor Schrager

H&M + Swedish Hasbeens =

In store on 20th April. I cannot wait. Apologies to those close to me that would rather i didn't stomp around in clogs ; )

Ingrid Bergman: let's go make a picture!

Amira Fritz

How lovely are these!? Too see more click here http://www.amirafritz.com

4 April 2011

Emma Kunz

Source: http://www.emma-kunz-zentrum.ch/

3 April 2011

Ama Divers

Traditionally, Japanese pearl diving was done by women who were called "Ama". Men did this too, but it was predominantly a female profession. The word Ama literally means "sea woman." and its a Japanese tradition thatdates back 2000 years...if you ever get the chance try and watch the documentary Ama Girls. Fascinating!

The first 4 images (Ama in action). I believe these are by Fosco Maraini, from his book The Island of the Fisherwomen (1962). From here
The next 2 are copyright of the Iwase Yoshiyuki Estate. More here
The Large Fresh Water Pearl Ring is from Laura Lee Jewellery

"Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful for me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust."

Italo Calvino