© Olivia Beasley / Charles Danby

Photographer Olivia Beasley collaborated with artist Charles Danby for their “Model Drawing” series. The intimate addition of pencil to the photographs are in contrast to the nature of photographic reproductions.

More images from this series can be seen in the The Look 2010 online gallery. The 2011 Contest is currently open for entries until June 30, but enter today to avoid late fees. A People’s Choice winner will also be selected.

Sabine. Seattle, WA. 2008. © Emiliano Granado

Emiliano Granado’s Time For Print is a series of portraits of aspiring models the photographer met through the online photography community Model Mayhem. “Time For Print” or “Test For Print” or “TFP,” as the communities refer to it, is the practice of unestablished models and photographers getting together for a shoot, each donating their time to further their portfolios. An exhibition of Granado’s series, which he calls “A study of beauty, sexuality and the compulsion to be seen in the Internet age,” opens tomorrow at EYELEVEL BQE in Brooklyn, NY. For more, visit Granado’s Web site for the project: http://www.projecttfp.com/

All Photos © Amy Touchette

The Insiders is Brooklyn-based photographer Amy Touchette’s latest body of work. “The photographs are portraits of strangers I made while walking around the city and are an observation of the vulnerability and freedom that exists among today’s New Yorkers,” Touchette says. Her photography has been published and exhibited throughout The Netherlands, China, Australia, New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, and her series Deborah was recently published in LoudMouth Press’ latest title Why Are You Surprised I’m Still Here?. She is represented by June Bateman Fine Art. To see more of Amy’s work click here.

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All Photos © Paul McDonough

Paul McDonough arrived in New York City in 1967 with a 35mm camera and entrée, through childhood friend Tod Papageorge, to the photography workshops and social networks of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Emerging from an early career as a studio easel painter, McDonough found photographing on the streets of New York liberating: “It satisfied my sketching impulses… I learned to carry a camera everywhere, all the time, loaded with 400-speed film.” McDonough’s first monograph, Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968 – 1978, was published in November 2010 by Umbrage Editions, in conjunction with an exhibition at Sasha Wolf Gallery. – Umbrage.

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© Courtesy Philip-Lorca diCorcia/David Zwirner, New York.  Above: W, September 1997, #3, 1997.

On view, for the first time in New York at the David Zwirner gallery, is an exhibition of fashion photographs by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. The exhibition, Eleven, opens tonight and runs through March 5, 2011. All of the photographs were selected from a series of eleven editorial projects diCorcia created for W magazine between 1997 and 2008.

“The tableaux-like, monumental quality, which envelops diCorcia’s broader oeuvre provides an intimate match with the contrived, theatrical nature of the fashion shoot. Together with W magazine’s long-time creative director Dennis Freedman (now the creative director of Barneys New York), diCorcia traveled to distinct locations around the world to produce his photographic essays,” David Zwirner gallery says. “Employing his own models as well as people cast on the spot, his images weave together richly loaded narratives with a stylist’s selection of designer-brand clothes. These narratives sometimes appear far removed from the fashion industry’s traditional emphasis on formulaic beauty and harmony, and instead involve a delicate balance between glamour and grit, imagination and irony.” To see more of diCorcia’s work click here.

Warning: This post contains partial nudity.

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