(Photo by Alfred Wertheimer) The First of Elvis (article slideshow) I became a fly on the wall. …I had trained myself along the lines of available-light photography. Later on, I coined a phrase, because I got beyond available-light photography to available-darkness photography. … My feeling was that the darker you can get a decent photograph—I mean in a dark enough place—the closer you’ll get to the real personality. - Alfred Wertheimer What I like about this article is that it doesn’t devolve into an Elvis bio or any nonsense about blah blah Young Elvis. It’s about the photographer and his photographs (and a wee bit about his camera). Photography is the subject; that the photos are of Elvis is of course why it’s published but still somehow secondary.

(Photo by Alfred Wertheimer)

The First of Elvis (article slideshow)

I became a fly on the wall. …I had trained myself along the lines of available-light photography. Later on, I coined a phrase, because I got beyond available-light photography to available-darkness photography. … My feeling was that the darker you can get a decent photograph—I mean in a dark enough place—the closer you’ll get to the real personality.

- Alfred Wertheimer

What I like about this article is that it doesn’t devolve into an Elvis bio or any nonsense about blah blah Young Elvis. It’s about the photographer and his photographs (and a wee bit about his camera). Photography is the subject; that the photos are of Elvis is of course why it’s published but still somehow secondary.

3 Jan 2010   [ photography vanity fair ]

The hamburger was born as a simple object, and we all fall in love with it at an early age. It’s just a fact of the world, like sunshine or our mothers’ love.

Judging the Object of America’s Universal Food Fetish: The Hamburger, Josh Ozersky

Word!

Also: “[Spike Mendelsohn] also took a perfectly good hamburger and dropped both an unmelted lump of blue cheese and horseradish mayonnaise onto it. Really, Spike?”

Guh-ross, I says. I cannot abide bleu cheese in the vicinity of my burger.

14 Oct 2009   [ quotes vanity fair food burgers ]
The Vanities Girls Late to the party on this one (it’s from Feb! heh), but: adorable! Other faves: Kristen Bell & Leslie Mann. (Speaking of pin-up style: Gil Elvgren is probably the master of the American Pin-Up [or at least the one whose work is best-known].)

The Vanities Girls

Late to the party on this one (it’s from Feb! heh), but: adorable! Other faves: Kristen Bell & Leslie Mann.

(Speaking of pin-up style: Gil Elvgren is probably the master of the American Pin-Up [or at least the one whose work is best-known].)

13 May 2009   [ photography magazines vanity fair actors ]
Something just clicked (via @rands)(Source: Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair) It’s possible I’ll re/post any saturated photo of Kate Winslet, but can you blame me?

Something just clicked (via @rands)
(Source: Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair)

It’s possible I’ll re/post any saturated photo of Kate Winslet, but can you blame me?

12 May 2009   [ photography vanity fair magazines kate winslet actors ]

…but an overall ‘gauzy’ look preferable to hard edge realism.

Oh, indeed. This one’s for R and J.

Thomas Kinkade’s 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck

18 Nov 2008   [ quotes vanity fair ]