Post It Art

Illegal Art is a collaboration of artists based in NY, whose goal is to create interactive public art to inspire self-reflection, thought and human connection.

Each piece is then presented or distributed in a method in which participation is simple and encouraged.

To Do Art Installation is one of the many projects of ILLEGALART.ORG.

Where passers by are free to write their to- do lists, commands, reminders or mantras on a post it

Here are some of my favorite post its :)

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

While I was in Amsterdam in late August, I made sure to visit the FOAM Gallery. Its main Gallery staged a retrospective "Pretty Much Everything – photographs 1985-2010" featuring over 300 photographs spanning Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin’s 25 year career together.

Inez & Vinoodh are a Dutch couple who have been taking outstanding photographs since 1985.

Honestly Ive known just a little about them before going to FOAM, but little did i know that almost all the ad campaigns, editorials or magazine covers that have left an impact on me were by this duo.

From YSL, Cavalli, Versace, Herve Leger, Balenciaga, Isabel Marant, Gucci & Moschino to name a few to Bjork's new album cover, their bold & innovative approach is consistent. They have also created ground-breaking editorial shots for American, French, and Italian Vogue, V and many portraits forThe New York Times Magazine.

Check out some of my favorite works of theirs....

also check out the video of the duo talking about their work.

FOAM gallery from the banks

Inside the exhibition

Narciso Rodriguez Campaign 2007

Kate Moss Vogue France Oct 2009

Lanvin men s/s 2010 (self portraits by inez and vinoodh kissing)

YSL 2009

YSL S/S 2010

Chloe 2010

Vogue Paris August 2009

Vogue Paris August 2009

Chloe Fall 2004

Alex Prager Photowork

These are shots from an American photographer Alex Prager working out of Los Angeles, California. I’m seriously in love with her work. Look like stills from an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. He was the American photographer. There is very little I can write here that can adequately explain how talented or influential Richard Avedon was. He was a photographer, yes, but what he did behind the camera was so much greater than that.

Richard saw in photography it’s ability to capture the soul and personality of its subjects. He was a master at being able to capture something tangible and real about his subjects, even if it was something the subjects weren’t necessarily willing to reveal. It was with these talents that he managed to give America an image, an identity; a reflection of society at its highest and lowest.

He was a true master of his craft.

I am a big fan of both his fashion & portrait work.

Here are some of my favorites...

B.B 1962

Marilyn Monroe as silent screen star Theda Bara. From Life Magazine's fabled, "Enchantress Series," 1958

Marilyn Monroe 1959

Bob Dylan, Central Park 1960

Audrey Hepburn 1967

Nadja Auermann 1995

Dovima in Dior & the elephants taken at the "Cirque d'hiver de Paris" in august 1955

The photograph of Dovima in the black dress with elephants was reprinted many times but the image of Dovima in white was printed only once and the negative no longer exists. “It disappeared mysteriously,” Avedon said

Nadja Auermann Versace 1994

Stephanie Seymour Dress and shoes by Chanel, Paris 1994