Colorful Op art
Lisa Perry dress and Vasarely painting. Op art (Optical art) is an artistic movement dating from 1950s which plays with the visual perception of the observer. Sources : Pinterest and registre-des-arts
Palais royal in Paris (1)
The Palais-Royal (Paris 1) is my favourite place in Paris ; it is timeless and elegant. The arcades, the garden and old boutiques (selling stamps, medals, antiques, currency…) made of the Palais-Royal a quiet, timeless and lovely place. Cardinal Richelieu (adviser of King Louis XIII) wanted a home near to the Louvre where the French…
« Promenade des anglais » in Nice, by night
This promenade is around 7km long. I took these photos last September in Nice, France.
Une fleur rose sous un voile d’or
Mix between a photo i took of a rose flower in the French Riviera and a gold texture (Pinterest).
Emma by Jane Austen
Hugh Thomson cover of the Jane Austen’s novel Emma and photo of the movie “Emma” starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse in the movie “Emma” directed by Douglas McGrath in 1996. Emma Woodhouse is a character of the Jane Austen’s novel Emma published in 1815. Emma is a young, rich and clever woman who is…
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen. Photo of the movie Pride and prejudice directed by Joe…
Un déluge de fleurs
Paule Ka’s dress and a part of a Gustav Klimt’s painting “The kiss” (1907-1908). Gustav Klimt was a renowned Austrian Art nouveau painter.
Pre-Raphaelite delicacy
Jules Frederic Ballavoine’s painting, pomegranate jewel, William Morris design and my photo of sea in Sicily. Pre-Raphaelism was a British artistic movement, born in the late 1840s, in London, during the Victorian era. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of three young students of the Royal Academy : William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais…
Opalescent jewelry
Winged heart opal brooch, Pre Raphaelite (Arts & Crafts) tiara (1900s) and William Morris’ illustration. Opalescence is the optical property of a transparent or translucide material which gives it an aspect or a milky color with iridescent reflects like the opals. “Precious opals are translucent to transparent and are distinguished by a combination of milky…
Pre-Raphaelite beauty
George Hurrel’s photo of the red hair actress Rita Hayworth, William Morris’ pattern and pomegranate’s earrings. Rita Hayworth was one of the most famous red hair actress in Hollywood. My favourite movies of her : Gilda, You’ll never get rich, You were never lovelier, Cover girl, Down to earth, Tonight and every night, My gal…
Sparkling sea
Photo of a model wearing a Norman Hartnell gown in 1929, my photo of the sea in the French riviera and my photo of a chandelier in the Napoleon III appartments in the Louvre museum, in Paris.
Éclaboussée de lumière
Photo of Hoyningen-Huene (Model wearing a Madeleine Vionnet gown in the 1930s) and my photo of the sea in the French Riviera.
Rêveries marines
Mix of two of my photos of Syracuse in Sicily, Lazzari dress and shell earrings.
The vintage fashion photographer Edward Steichen
Native of Luxembourg, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was a complete and prolific artist : photographer, painter, director, gardener… He is particularly renowned for his fashion photos which are poetic, artistic and often inspired by Antique Greece. The photographer exhibited his work in Paris in 1901 ; he became member of the London photographic society and met…
An unreal horizon
“Surrealism is the magical surprise to find a lion in a closet, where we were sure to find shirts.” Frida Kahlo. Mrs Pomeranz’s dresses and the Maxfield Parrish’s painting “Autumn white birch”. Sources : Pinterest and leparisien
