Tonight my friend Heather Harris (Fast Film) the ultra smooth rock photographer from Hollywood commented on the gorgeous photograph taken of Vanessa Redgrave and used in Carl Lundgren's great rock poster. The original photograph was taken by Victor Skrebneski for the film Isadora (Duncan) starring the very beautiful Ms Redgrave. Incredibly fabulous fashion photographer for over 50 years and I just now learned about Mr. Skrebneski.
Chicago-based photographer Victor Skrebneski is known for his high-styled and glamorous fashion and advertising photography, for sensuous and sculptural nude studies, and for casually elegant portraits of friends and the famous. This photograph of Vanessa Redgrave is typical of the dynamic style Skrebneski employs for his black-and-white portraits.
Born in 1929, Victor Skrebneski attended The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (1943) and the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (1947-49). Perhaps most famous for his commercial work for the cosmetic company Estee Lauder, Skrebneski has also photographed for Town & Country and Fitness magazines, and for Chanel, Grosvenor Furs, Kohler, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, and Saks Fifth Avenue, among many other clients. His photographs are exhibited and collected widely; a fifty-year retrospective of his work was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1999.
Read more about him HERE Thank you so much HH!
Vanessa Redgrave starred in the film biography of the free-spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional conformities in her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her male secretary. Her uninhibited sexuality and insistence on personalfreedom and expression shocked more conservative and narrow-minded patrons and audiences.
She brought in elements of classic Greek dance during the height of the jazz age and had children in and out of wedlock. Married to sewing-machine heir Paris Singer (JasonRobards) and the Russian poet Sergei Essenin(Ivan Tchenko), her life was a rollercoaster ride ofsuccess and tragic failures.
Two of her children drowned when her chauffeur left the car unattended and the vehicle plunged into a river. Duncan lived by her own rules, often shunned by the very people who had so passionately embraced her pioneering efforts in dance,women's liberation and free thinking. Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.
Thank you Heather for sending me the info on this fantastic artist.
Hey Kiddo, had a GREAT night, soooo good to see your lovely self. Hope we cross paths again soon. Doing the show at Alvins (Helldrivers, Circus Boy, Torpedos) Dec 26, think about it? We're gonna try, damn holidays get in the way. peace a.a. & me
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Welcome to the WORLD of MADNESS, known as the UNDERGROUND BOHEMIAN rEVOLUTION, that I call my ART. Saw ‘your’ ART posted on one of my friends’ site and I must say that I really dig it. Yeaahhh… Please feel FREE to post WHATEVER you see fit on my site. When you have a moment stop by and check out the U.B.R. Let me know what you think, ideas, suggestions,… It always gives me such a thrill when someone reaches out and touches me. Electronically. I'll be around and in touch. Hope you have a ‘WONDER – FULL’ day! Take care, my new friend. Love and light... - foni
P.S. Really dig your choice of music, milady. You're so kool. bye, for now...
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Dec 20 2009 5:23 PM
peace a.a. & me
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Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Jim :-)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Dec 9 2009 5:27 AM
THANX 4 THE SUPPORT
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Nov 20 2009 11:55 AM
JIM
video from the vampire rock opera "ONE KISS, ONE BITE"
Nov 14 2009 2:32 PM
(biggest party since the Spaghetti Bender Christmas bashes)
Nov 13 2009 12:01 PM
We finished the music video from my vampire rock opera "ONE KISS, ONE BITE".
Have a good one ....it's Friday the 13th!
Jim :-)
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P.S. Really dig your choice of music, milady. You're so kool. bye, for now...
Oct 9 2009 9:45 PM
With a passing thought…
“foni” is a HEROinE junkie.
Always relentlessly craving a certain, special kind of heaven.
Riding the KAMIKAZE in the void of INFINITE DARK.
On a mad, suicidal odyssey.
Fulfilling the promise of a golden, stubborn monkey named…
Thank you for stopping by. Have a WONDER - FULL weekend, my friend. love and light... - foni
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Also, check out our friend Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith's new band, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats and their iTunes Top 10 Funk/Jazz debut release, "Meet the Meatbats"!