Elene Usdin, "Femmes d'interieur".

Elene Usdin is a Paris based artist who works primarily in photography. Usdin's work is very diverse and includes work for commercial clients, fashion publications and herself as the subject.

About her series "Femmes d'interieur" which can be translated as "Domesticated Women", Usdin says: This is a piece of work that focuses on women, on how they are represented in classical art, indeed on the “codes” that surround and determine their representation, from the Renaissance to today. I chose to observe the backgrounds that encase, and to some extent determine, the way women are portrayed, from a Florentine countryside to the overwrought interior of a painter’s studio. These portraits reveal more than they intend, they reveal a great deal about the social position of a woman, from the way she is appareled and coiffed to the attitude she is made to strike.

Femmes d'interieur

2009-2010

Photos, courtesy of Elene Usdin

Trains vs planes, part 1

If I had the choice, I would choose trains......
The X-Train, the new luxe train project will launch in late 2011 and will take passengers from L.A. to Vegas and back with all the amenities, bars, sports lounges, gaming rooms....

The Vegas / L.A. X Train

A visit to the X Train's Web site

Another brand new train, the Maharajas Express, India's new luxury train running between Mumbai and Kolkata.

Maharajas Express

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To continue on the subject of trains, let's take a look at the Blue Train, a South Africa's luxury liner on wheels.

And for the last one, I chose The Orient - Express.

A visit to the cabins with their 3D animations

Ellen Von Unwerth

Parisian high-end department store le Bon Marche pays tribute to the German-born fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth with a retrospective titled "Ellen'Cinema."

Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci

Marion Cotillard

Photos courtesy of Ellen Von Unwerth
At the Bon Marche May 6 to June 19

Dennis Hopper

The Many Worlds of Dennis Hopper. 

Photographs 1961-1967

"I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs that kept me going creatively."- Dennis Hopper

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Also an exhibition of his work at 

THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES (MOCA), PRESENTS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE
U.S. MUSEUM SURVEY EXHIBITION OF THE ART OF
ARTIST, FILM DIRECTOR, AND ACTOR DENNIS HOPPER 

DENNIS HOPPER DOUBLE STANDARD
JULY 11–SEPT 26, 2010
THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA

Hopper in front of Julian Schnabel's painting of the actor

Julian Schnabel calls Hopper, “a painter without a brush,” articulating a visual statement that is “beyond language.” Schnabel speaks about how Hopper “made film into art,” and describes how he “takes the viewer on a high risk journey with him, working without a safety net.”

Photos : Courtesy of Dennis Hopper via Tashen
May 29th, deeply sad.
Great career.....ride off peacefully Dennis. Easy Rider