Guess Campaign 1990

Photograph below was taken by Ellen von Unwerth in 1990 for a Guess Campaign. Despite the fact that this image was captured in a photo shoot, it still looks natural - and that's because they didn't go for a typical model pose and also because they chose to shoot it on location, so there's nothing unreal about the photograph. I'm not sure what exactly, but there is something about this photograph that I absolutely love. The exposure and contrast are spot on, framing is great and I doubt I even need to mention how beautiful the subject looks. Even though the model, Claudia Schiffer, is wearing night wear, the relatively strong ambient light makes us suspect that. Her appearance makes you think that she's waiting for someone. 

Angle it right!

These following photos were forwarded to my email by a friend. They aren't good quality photos yet I find them brilliant! Great thinking.

The Most Beautiful Suicide, 01/May/1947

Saw this image whilst surfing on web. I don't think words are enough to describe the feeling it gives. When you first look at the photograph, you don't think it's real, almost like it's a set up scene and she isn't actually dead. And I guess that is the part that I become speechless,  that fact that she looks so much in peace.
The interesting and eerie story behind the image has also been beautifully reflected using an important element in photography: form.

Some images do not include an interesting content but an interesting (and simply beautiful looking) form, like Edward Weston's Pepper. But with the image The Most Beautiful Suicide we can see that when the use of form and content are combined, the outcome will most probably be impressive.

"On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure."