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2012 Pirelli Calendar Unveiled

JAXQuickfit — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:15:18 +0000

The 2012 Pirelli Calendar has been previewed in New York by the world media, international guests and collectors.

The 39th issue of ‘The Cal’ is the work of acclaimed fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti and was shot on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where locations used included abandoned old farmhouses, as well as the blue seawater with backdrops of rocky outcrops.

Sorrenti, the first Italian photographer in the calendar’s history, worked with nine models and three actresses to produce the 2012 edition, which is titled ‘Swoon’, a name said to represent “ecstasy captured by images.”

Known for his nude photography, Sorrenti’s work on the 2012 Cal reflects this, with all protagonists appearing completely nude.

“In ‘swoon’, I put the bodies in direct contact with nature, which harbours them as if they were its extension, in a set of images where rocks, land, tree trunks, sky and sea are all turned into a backdrop for the bodies,” the photographer commented.

The women appearing in the 2012 calendar include Britain’s Kate Moss, who makes her third Pirelli Calendar appearance. The other models are Brazilian Isabeli Fontana (who also featured in the Cal in 2003, 2005, 2009 & 2011), Russia’s Natasha Poly (2011), the Dutch Saskia de Brauw and Lara Stone (2009, 2011), Americans Joan Small and Guinevere Van Seenus (2006), the Polish Malgosia (2009) and Lithuania’s Edita Vilkeviciute. The actresses features are the Ukrainian Milla Jovovich (1998), Italy’s Margareth Madè and the Japanese Rinko Kikuchi.

The 25 pictures of the 2012 Cal, eighteen black and white and seven colour, are presented in a refined, canvas-lined portfolio, a format that has never been used before.

Sneak Peek of 2012 Pirelli Calendar

admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:32:32 +0000

Vanity Fair (Italy) has released some behind the scenes images of the 2012 Pirelli Calendar, ahead of the Calendar’s official launch in New York in December.

Shot by acclaimed fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti, the 2012 Pirelli Calender ‘emphasises feminine beauty’ and features beauties including Milla Jovovich, Saskia de Brauw and Kate Moss.

This shoot was Moss’ third for Pirelli, having previously been featured in the 1994 and 2006 editions.

The 12 stunning models featuring in the Calendar were flown to Murtoli on the Mediterranean island of Corsica for the week long assignment, where locations used included abandoned old farmhouses as well as the blue seawater with backdrops of rocky outcrops.

To see the behind-the-scenes images, go to http://www.vanityfair.it/people/mondo/2011/08-%281%29/24/the-cal-2012-calendario-pirelli-kate-moss-top-model#?refresh=ce

Pirelli Calendar 2010 by Terry Richardson

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:10 +0000

London, 19 November 2009 – The 2010 Pirelli Calendar, now in its 37th edition, was presented to the press and to guests and collectors from around the world, at its global premiere in London. The much-awaited appointment with ‘The Cal’, a cult object for over 40 years, was held this year at Old Billingsgate, the suggestive late 19th century building on the banks of the Thames, where from 1875 to 1982 it housed the capital city’s fish market.

Following China, immortalized by Patrick Demarchelier in the 2008 edition, and Botswana shot by Peter Beard a year later, 2010 is the year of Brazil and of American photographer Terry Richardson, the celebrated “enfant terrible” known for his provocative and outrageous approach.

In the 30 images that scan the months of 2010, Terry Richardson depicts a return to a playful, pure Eros. Through his lens he runs after fantasies and provokes, but with a simplicity that sculpts and captures the sunniest side of femininity. He portrays a woman who is captivating because she is natural, who plays with stereotypes in order to undo them, who makes irony the only veil she covers herself with.

This is a return to the natural, authentic atmospheres and images of the ‘60s and ‘70s. It is a clear homage to the Calendar’s origins, a throwback to the first editions by Robert Freeman (1964), Brian Duffy (1965) and Harry Peccinotti (1968 and 1969). Terry Richardson, like his illustrious predecessors, has chosen a simple kind of photography, without retouching, where naturalness prevails over technique and becomes the key to removing artificial excesses in vogue today to reveal the true woman underneath.

The rooster, the sabre, the jets of water and the old tyres become the punctuation marks giving rhythm and harmony to the tale told by Richardson, where suggestions of the Pop Art that inspired some early editions of the Calendar merge with an Eros typical of this American photographer, that Eros which in the 2010 Cal is evoked only slightly, through allusions which Richardson uses to mock convention, giving form and carnality to things taboo.

This is a Calendar which Francesco Negri Arnoldi, former Art History Professor at the University of Salento in Lecce and University Tor Vergata in Rome, considers Pop. He defines it as “totally new, in its return to the past; absolutely original, in its consolidated tradition, and capable of rediscovering the charm of all-natural femininity”. With the return to Pop Art, the language adopted is an essential and immediate iconographic language, understandable by all and contaminated only by daily life.

The 2010 edition is a clear expression and Terry Richardson is its interpreter: he portrays figures without frills, removed from complicated and artificial contexts set by fashion trends. The setting has no showy backgrounds or schemes, in line with the photographer’s simplicity and focus on the essential. “A great photographer,” says Richardson, “captures the moment – that’s why I shoot without extra equipment and without assistants.

“My technique is the absence of technique: the lens is my eye, my charisma, my ability to capture moments of truth, whatever they may be, picture angles, use of color, light, scenery – these have always been the essential aspects of my photographic art.”

Eleven models appear in the Calendar: Catherine McNeil, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Miranda Kerr of Australia, Eniko Mihalik from Hungary, Marloes Horst of the Netherlands, Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley from the UK, Georgina Stojilijkovic of Serbia and two Brazilian natives, Gracie Carvalho and Ana Beatriz Barros.

TERRY RICHARDSON – THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson’s vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative.

Born in New York City and raised in Hollywood, Terry began photographing his environment while attending Hollywood High School and playing in a punk rock band. And he hasn’t stopped shooting since. Terry has lensed campaigns for such clients as Gucci, Sisley, Miu Miu, Chloe, and his editorial work has appeared in magazines such as French Vogue, British Vogue, i-D, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar and Purple, and his impressive list of subjects includes Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vincent Gallo, Tom Ford, Jay Z, Kanye West, Johnny Knoxville, Karl Lagerfeld, Pharell Williams and many others.

Terry’s work has been the subject of numerous group and one man shows throughout the world, and he has published a selection of books, beginning with Hysteric Glamour in 1998 and stretching through his career until his most recent work, a retrospective from Taschen entitled Terryworld 25th Anniversary Edition.

Terry’s work spans a variety of mediums: he has shot music videos and commercials and is currently working on his first feature film.

Whatever the medium, Terry Richardson continues to prove that he is a true American Original.

2010 Pirelli Calendar to include three Australian Models

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Sydney born 26 year old Miranda Kerr, 20 year old Catherine Mcneil from Brisbane and 22 year old Melburnian Abbey Lee Kershaw will feature in the 2010 version of the infamous Pirelli Calendar alongside some of the World’s most beautiful and currently sought after models.

The 2010 Calendar will represent a return to the Calendar’s origins and to exotic and suggestive images of the 60’s and 70’s, when young models at the beginning of their careers were photographed in a spontaneous and simple way with uncontaminated backgrounds of natural and wild beaches.

Terry Richardson, the rebellious and instinctive photographer and one of the first photographers that shot Barack Obama during the election campaign, is the artist who will sign the 2010 Pirelli Calendar.

Some of the images shown here include the list of models and their profiles, Terry Richardson’s profile and some photographs taken during the making of the 2010 Calendar by backstage photographer Costantino Ruspoli.

Miranda Kerr

Terry Richardson Profile

Terry was born in New York in the sixties and grew up in Hollywood. His father was part of the trio of photographers, with Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon, who took the fashion world by storm in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

His photography is never banal; he adores nudity but doesn’t look for glossy glamour, but instead provocation, exasperated realism, explicit detail, without artistic retouching.

Richardson’s shows and ad campaigns have sometimes created a stir. There’s no limit and no self-censorship, because every shot recounts a story, an encounter, an exchange of experiences, in its entirety. His photos are the result of experimentation and creative impulse, whose meaning rises above the occasion and becomes an expression of real daily life, outrageous but also strongly ironic – so much so that the spectator is overwhelmed by the impulsive realism of the scene depicted.

Terry began taking pictures of daily life in the most audacious way, with self-portraits and shots of the motorcycle gangs and punk and heavy metal bands he grew up with. His was the kingdom of the explicit: casual locations, divas without makeup, top models and common people surprised out on the street or in a public bathroom. A zoo of human beings and their situations.

In order to sustain his project of conquering an immediate physical, and thus often shameless, art form, he refuses social conventions that characterize the dominant culture of the middle classes.

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Katherine McNeil

Abby Lee Kershaw

Ana Beatriz Barros

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He has a creative approach to framing photographs: a great photographer, in his view, captures the moment. This is why Richardson photographs without equipment or assistants. “You can’t give soul to your photo with technique; I want my photos to be fresh and immediate,” he says. His technique is the absence of technique: the lens is his eye, his charisma, his skill in capturing moments of truth whatever they may be, his cuts and use of colour, his lights and settings; these are the essential points of his Photographic Art.