Nick Knight/Alister Mackie
Invited by Another Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its A/W '07–08 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie took inspiration from imagery Robert Mapplethorpe and Horst P. Horst, only translating the monochrome power of their stills into colour. Featuring new work by a range of designers, the results offer a fresh perspective on men’s underwear, its representation in fashion imagery and on masculinity itself. Boned also features a film of the shoot, an accompanying essay by Shaun Cole and clips and interviews from the live broadcast.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Sam McKnight] [Alister Mackie] [Val Garland] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Shaun Cole]
Brad Pitt
During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captured Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the 'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [Brad Pitt] [Poetry] [Alister Mackie]
Katy England
Trick or treat? The spooks and creeps came out in force for Artist Sam Taylor-Wood's Halloween Party. Stylist Katy England caught the macabre proceedings on camera.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Stylists] [Parties] [Alister Mackie] [Katy England]