Photo by Brad Pitt
This months issue of W arrived today. It’s their annual Art Issue. There’s a photo spread of Angelina shot by Brad using someone’s stash of Kodak Tech Pan. No word on how it was exposed (looks like a variety of ways) but if i remember correctly it was rated at 25! This stuff hasn’t been made for years and the original supply ran out sometime around 2004. (For my portfolio of T, I’m going to request that Conde Nast get Kodak to whip me up some Vericolor II in 220.)
Brad’s not a half bad photographer but most striking is the print job by Robert Mann. Mann’s a photographer, musician and the master printer behind most of those iconic Herb Ritts photos from back in the day. Unlike the mostly lackluster work W has shown in the last few months (see the I’m-phoning-it-in shoot of Tilda Swinton by the normally reliable Juergen Teller), these images jump off the page. Check out Mann’s own work here.
As an added bonus this month, W also gives us William Eggleston just in time for his career retrospective opening at the Whitney on Nov 7 (coincidentally or not, sponsored by W). No reproduction even comes close to seeing Eggleston’s dye transfer prints live and in the flesh. I can’t wait.
