Here is a humble man never leaded by fame. Saul Leiter’s abstract paintings gave his photography a distinctive approach, with his pastel tones and large color areas, he is a pioneer of color. His compositions using reflections, windows, fog, negative spaces have come to defy all the rules at the time. His sensibility and alternative way of seeing was revealed […]
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Virgin Suicides
For the second edition of Movie Picks we chose Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola. Based on a novel by Jefferey Eugenides, the film portrays through a dreamlike imaginery the life of the Lisbon sisters, seen from the point of view of adolescent boys fantasizing about their teenage crushes and the mystery behind them. What we […]
Katherine Squier
Katherine Squier (27) is an American photographer from Austin, Texas whose pictures are like a reminiscence of a young summer, filled with new discoveries and experiences. Photographing with a Canon AE-1 (a personal favorite here at Velvet Eyes), and inspired by light, she manages to capture unique moments that will appeal to your deepest memories and […]
Vertigo
A fascinating film such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is what makes this section come to life. Based on the novel D’entre les morts, this psychological thriller from 1958 takes us into a tragic love story as sensual as cerebral. Hitchcock brightly uses the figure of the spiral and circular travelings to support the idea of vertigo, […]