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'Fetching is your Dior', Christian Dior advert with Lisa Taylor, 1976

Wunderkind – Glass looks at the career of the tearaway photographic protégé Chris von Wangenheim

July 4, 2014

Archive, Art, Culture, Feature, Photography

Ironically, the year of the death of the photographer, Elsa Neuländer-Simon, known as Yva, coincided with the birth of another highly talented German photographer who would complete this holy trinity of fashi...

Rediscovering Yva

Glass Archive

June 27, 2014

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The name Elsa Neuländer-Simon (1900–1942), or Yva, her photographic pseudonym, is more often than not a footnote in the career of her famed apprentice, Helmut Newton. With little information and a...

Glass reviews Richard Avedon, Gagosian, Athens

Xenia Founta

June 6, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Greece, News, Photography, Travel

Richard Avedon said, “Portraiture is performance. You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface (…) All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, cost...

A new dimension

Bonnie Friend

June 5, 2014

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I don’t think there is anything quite as inspiring as the great outdoors, particularly when its multifaceted appeal isn’t just limited to the organic forms of the environment itself but also its h...

The house that dreams built

Glass Archive

May 16, 2014

Archive, Beauty, Culture, Design, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, Jewellery and Watches, News, Photography

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The hallowed name of the house of Chanel could in itself be a synonym for rapture. Few maisons have managed to inspire such legions of loyal fans. Fewer still can cause hysteria simply with the introduction of ...

Museum of Art and Design presents the first exhibition to explore jewellery and photography

Louise Lui

May 14, 2014

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The Museum of Art and Design in New York City will present a new exhibition to examine the interplay between photography and jewellery. Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography will be the first museum exhib...

Up in the clouds

Justin van Vliet

March 28, 2014

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Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...

Be original or die

Nicola Kavanagh

March 7, 2014

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At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...

Building images

Runa Mathiesen

February 20, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, News, Photography

Along with the abundance of design websites, where architectural companies can promote themselves, architectural photography has become increasingly important in recent years. The photo has come to define m...

A year long date with beauty

Daniel Warner

September 6, 2011

Culture, Feature, News, Photography

How many teenage fantasies and workmen’s dreams have begun with a picture from a calendar? Miss August and Mr (whoever he) May (be) have kept smiles on the faces of innocent girls and jaded workers from Janua...