The 60s Fashion Photographer on the Whimsical Project that Made His Name
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Something deep inside of me was stirred from the moment I saw Melvin Sokolsky’s Bouquet Seine photograph at A & I Photo in Hollywood, when picking up prints one morning. Seeing such an imaginative, masterful, moving and powerful photo inspired me. The model was flying in the air in a bubble above the Seine River.
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The period between 1955 and 1970 has become widely recognized as a kind of golden age in American magazine culture. In these years the commercial imperative had failed to over-ride the arguably irrational urge to utilize mass-circulation periodicals as a platform for personal expression. Following…
Melvin Sokolsky was a famous surrealist fashion photographer who took pictures for Harper's Bazaar, GQ, and Vogue Italia throughout his career. Some of his most famous and fantastical pieces are his "bubble" series, where he placed the model in a large plexiglass sphere and hung it from a thin cable, which was then edited out. His ability to push the boundaries of fashion photography changed the industry forever, as it has just gotten even more surreal and abstract. (Serine Johansen, Week 5)
Harper's Bazaar 1963 'Bubble' Collection
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Models flew over Paris or floated in a bubble in his arresting images, seen in Harper’s Bazaar and other fashion bibles in the experimental ’60s.
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There’s something about floating translucent bubbles that’s always seemed futuristic, from the ’60s right up to the present day. Photographer Melvin Sokolsky was on the, er, ball, then, when he shot his now iconic Bubble series for the Harpers Bazaar 1963 Spring Collection.
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Melvin Sokolsky shot Jennifer Aniston for Harper's Bazaar's December/January issue which hits stands on November 25th.
Gilman Contemporary in Sun Valley, Idaho represents a range of artists and media from photographer Melvin Sokolsky to painter Kelly Ording.
Gilman Contemporary in Sun Valley, Idaho represents a range of artists and media from photographer Melvin Sokolsky to painter Kelly Ording.
Burke-Amey P/E 1964, imprimés créés par Tzaims Luksus, boucles d'oreilles de Kenneth Jay Lane. Photo Melvin Sokolsky. Mannequin Donna Mitchell (à gauche).
August 28, 1939 - January 2, 2022 Dorothea McGowan (sometimes credited as Dorothy MacGowan, born August 28, 1939 is a Brooklyn, New York-born former model and actress. Her sole screen credit is for the 1966 French film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, in which she had the starring role of a supermodel. As a model McGowan appeared on countless covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, and other publications in the 1960s. She was photographed by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Francesco Scavullo, and others. A daughter of Irish immigrants Sarah and Michael McGowan and born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter (1930-2007), a policeman who became a Roman Catholic priest, and James, a policeman whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon. McGowan was one of photographer William Klein's favorite models. After the release of his film Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein. She was married to and divorced from photographer Didier Dorot, with whom she has two children, Damien and Juliet. Dorothy Dorot now lives in Mamaroneck, New York. The following is an excerpt of a Time Magazine article of Dec. 22, 1961 DOROTHEA MCGOWAN is the exception in the new crop: she speaks only English and was bom in Brooklyn. Her pre-modeling life took her as far from home as Staten Island, where she finished her freshman year at Notre Dame College before taking a summer job modeling $2.98 house dresses. A few months later, her first photographic try at a cover made Vogue; this year she set some kind of a record by appearing on four Vogue covers in a row (nobody but her mother or agent could have told that it was the same girl). Twenty-year-old Dorothea ("My middle initial is E, and Dorothy sounded so ordinary") makes $60 an hour, has her own apartment in New York, studies French at Manhattan's French Institute twice a week ("so that when my dream of living in Paris comes true, I'll be ready for it"). In the relentless search of fashion editors for bizarre backdrops, Dorothea has been sent, all expenses paid, to be photographed in front of the great architectural monuments of Europe, among Middle East bazaars and under Caribbean palms, is absolutely "infatuated with the idea of being paid to travel."
