All Photos © Kimiko Yoshida/ Courtesy of Paco Rabanne.  Painting (Maria Magdaleina by Titian). Self-Portrait, 2010

By diverting objects of everyday life and fashion accessories, fragments belonging to the haute couture, or to the history of art, Kimiko’s “Paintings” series transform the works of  Tiepolo, Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, Rubens, Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, and Delacroix. Kimiko Yoshida recreates hairstyles or archaic masks she finds in museums and stages behind them her own disappearance. To see more of her work click here.

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© Olivia Beasley / Soma magazine

Alexander McQueen’s 2009 Fall / Winter collection photographed by Olivia Beasley for Soma magazine. More images from Beasley can be seen in the PDN Photo Annual 2010 online gallery.

For more fashion images, check out the People’s Choice section of The Look fashion photography contest. The Look is open for entries until June 30, but enter today to avoid late fees.

© Andy Warhol

Pictured here is Farrah Fawcett.  A unique Polacolor Type 108 print that is part of the current auction at Sotheby’s New York, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection. For details on the auction click here.

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All Photos © Zoe Buckman

Working as a cocktail waitress in London nightclubs, the ladies’ loo (restroom) was a space that served many purposes for Zoe. Clubs came and went, as did the crowds, but the ladies loo was a constant. It was where Zoe changed for a shift, had a smoke, had a cry, rested her feet, powdered her nose, misbehaved, hid…
Informed by real conversations that she overheard in the loo, Zoe Buckman has constructed scenes where the candid and the contrived coexist. The photographs evoke both the private self and the public persona one habitually assumes in this space, that masks our complexity. The series explores the unique and colorful world of the ladies’ restroom on a night out: the warmth and superficiality; the melancholy and play; and the sisterly exchanges between strangers and friends that occur only in the loo. The exhibition Loos, currently on display at the Milk Gallery, closes today at 6pm.

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All Photos © Enrique Ahumada

Enrique Ahumada gained inspiration from the creative atmosphere of art directors and photographers he works with at a Los Angeles advertising agency. Influenced by imagery of the female form, he began developing ‘Women in Windows’, an expression of his inner voyeur.

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