The Great Pretender

In this shoot, photographed by Steven Meisel for the Vogue May 2009 issue, model Natalia Vodianova portrays and embodies nine of fashion's most famous and notable models. What is absolutely incredible about this shoot is how different she appears as each model. She really does become the model she is trying to portray and emphasizes their most famous characteristics. For example when playing Dovima, Natalia juts out her hips and her legs in her...

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My First Image

I just found the first print I ever made. I would guess it was around 5th grade when my dad took my brother and me into work with him and taught us how to shoot a film camera on the most basic settings and then helped us develop and print a picture in the darkroom that we had shot. Pretty interesting to see what caught my eye back then.  Image © Mathea Mill...

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Steamfitter

I have to do a visual analysis of this first image by Lewis Hine and I thought it was the perfect inspiration image for a post.  SteamfitterLewis Hine1920(first image) Samantha Casolari: Images taken from tumblr....

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Pedro Maldonado

Quick impromptu portrait session with one of my closest friends, Pedro.  Images © Mathea Millman 201...

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Erwin Olaf

I came across the photographer Erwin Olaf last year when researching contemporary photographers who work in both the fine art and commercial advertising realm. Visually, his perfectly composed, lit, and styled images resemble advertising campaigns and commercial photography yet this is his fine art work. He does shoot commercially for clients such as Diesel, Louis Vuitton, Heineken, and Elle magazine among others.  With this series (Rain, Hope,...

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