A 1963 shoot for Harper’s Bazaar “Bubble’ Spring Collection in Paris by American photographer Melvin Sokolsky, featuring model Simone D’Aillencourt ‘floating’ inside a plexiglass bubble.
Long before the days of Photoshop, the floating effect was achieved by way of doing the thing for real, with a crane and ‘invisible’ wires. It’s as if Simone is actually suspended above the streets of Paris, because she is.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
Seamus MacCormaic director of market management UK & Ireland at Hotels.com launching the “good news” that room rates in Ireland are up due in part to two famous visitors.
Well at least they didn’t feel they had to use a legsome model to get their message across.
At least one photoshoot without a
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(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Pictures from Iain Macmillan’s ten-minute 1969 photoshoot for the Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album cover.
See the full gallery of outtakes here.
The Beatles crossed the road a number of times while Macmillan quickly took six photographs. 8 August was a hot day in north London, and for four of the six photographs McCartney walked barefoot; for the other two he wore sandals.
Shortly after the shoot, McCartney studied the transparencies and chose the fifth one for the album cover. It was the only one when all four Beatles were walking in time. It also satisfied The Beatles’ desire for the world to see them walking away from the studios they had spent so much of the last seven years inside.
The Abbey Road cover photography session (The Beatles Bible)
