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Luxist Giveaway: Pinhole Press 13-Photo Day Planner

Filed under: Art, Books

Pinhole Press is an online boutique that lets you create and personalize beautiful, inspirational photo gifts. Created as a collaboration between paper giant Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. and high design firm Rosebrook | Peters | Funaro it offers more than 150 stylish products that are easily customized with your personal photographs and memories. The holidays are over and we just started a new year so this is the perfect time to go through those stacks of family photos and maxed out memory discs and create lasting and meaningful gifts for yourself and your loved ones. PinholePress.com offers countless possibilities including greeting cards, calendars, framed photos, "Brag books", and day planners. There's quite literally something for everyone.

And speaking of day planners who couldn't use one right about now to keep those pesky New Year's resolutions on track and make the rest of winter bearable by planning out your summer vacation? One lucky Luxist reader will get to do just that as Pinhole Press is giving away one of their luxurious 8x10" 13-Photo Large Day Planners, available in your choice of four colors and featuring your own personal photographs inside and on the cover, as well as personalized text on the cover and interior title page. Worth $78.99 it's bound to be the best and most sentimental day planner you've ever owned.

THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER. THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED!

* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below.
* The comment must be left and confirmed before February 14, 2011 at 5:00pm Eastern Time.
* You may only enter once.
* One winner will be selected in a random drawing and notified by email.
* One winner will receive a Large Day Planner from PinholePress.com, a prize worth $78.99.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

See full giveaway rules here.

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Photos of Old Mexico Revealed in Two New Shows in NYC

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art, Books

Mexico is having a big historical moment, at the moment -- celebrations marking its 200th anniversary of independence, and the centennial of its revolution reached a fever pitch this month.

Such anniversaries are a great time to reflect on the past, and New York City's Aperture Gallery, in Chelsea, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, have just opened shows on that theme. American photographer Paul Strand spent extended time in Mexico in the 1930s and the 1960s, and during these journeys, made photographs now considered to be among his best. The Chelsea gallery displays more than 100 photographs by Strand, including a remastered version of his 1936 film, Redes. The Bronx Museum shows twenty gravure prints from Strand's 1967 travels in Mexico.

And if you just can't get enough of Strand's Mexico photographs -- or you're not in New York -- next month brings another way to experience the exhibit. Paul Strand in Mexico, will be published by Aperture and the Televisa Foundation. The book, which will sell for $75, reprints 234 of Strand's photos from both of his trips -- of these 123 have never before been published.

Tags: bronx, chelsea, Mexico, PhotoGallery, photography, photos

Definitely Not the Girls Next Door: Fraulein by Ellen von Unwerth

by Deb West (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Books

Who better to capture the carnal beauty of some of the most stunning women around than Ellen von Unwerth . She has been one of the world's premier fashion photographers for many years and Taschen is publishing a collection of her photographs. A former model, before stepping behind the lens, she worked in front of it for 10 years and it shows in the sensuality she elicits from her own subjects. Her photos have been featured in the editorial pages of Vogue, Interview and Vanity Fair and she has been hired to create many advertising campaigns for some of the biggest names in fashion from Chanel to Guess and Victoria's Secret. Her work has also been shown in numerous exhibitions internationally including at MoMA in Queens.

This collector's edition features sexy photographs of Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan,and too many more to list. The images are in both black and white as well as color and present a very different impression of women as sensual beings than the stereotypical "men's" magazine. While the photographs often feature their subjects nude or in lingerie the women are never objectified but rather seem to be expressing some aspect of their own femininity. Many images are previously unpublished and have been part of the photographer's personal archive for the past 15 years.

The limited edition series of 1,500 numbered and signed copies is a 482 page hardcover book in a clam shell box and retails for $700. Taschen will also be releasing 100 Art Editions which include one of two silver gelatin photographic prints by Ellen von Unwerth and will retail for $1,800 each. Pictured above we see a sample of Ellen Von Unwerth's work featured in the book, a photograph of Claudia Schiffer, titled: TEDDY London 2006.

Gallery: Fraulein by Ellen von Unwerth

Cover Art for Fraulein by Ellen von Unwerth

Tags: Claudia Schiffer, ClaudiaSchiffer, Ellen Von Unwerth, EllenVonUnwerth, fashion photography, FashionPhotography, photography, photos, sexy, Taschen

Eva Longoria's Wedding Photos Worth $2 Million

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Events

Most brides just have to worry about who they're going to have take their wedding pictures, but Eva Longoria and fiancé Tony Parker also had to decide who would get the rights to publish them. The biggest bidders for exclusive rights to wedding coverage were People magazine and OK!, with OK! coming out on top by offering $2 million dollars.

The wedding is planned for this weekend, July 7th, in a castle just outside of Paris. I wonder how much Eva and Tony are paying for their own personal wedding photos? Think $2 million will cover it?

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Sun Photo Binoculars

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

Every so often you come across an idea that seems to obvious that you wonder why no one ever thought of it before - and if someone has done it before, why it wasn't a commercially successful venture. The Sun Photo Binoculars are the ultimate binoculars for traveling because they have a built-in 2megapixel digital camera with an 8x zoom. There is no doubt that future models of the binoculars are already being developed to have both a higher resolution and video capabilities, since you can even find those features in mobile phones, but the idea of combining binoculars and a camera is a great one. It means that nature lovers and sports fans will not have to constantly switch back and forth between a camera and bioniculars to capture pictures of their favorite moments. Right now, Sun Photo is only available in Korea, for 370,000 KRW ($388).

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Dictator Style

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

We like to look into posh homes whenever possible, but some homes aren't really accessible to the public. For example, the homes of dictators and rulers that are made luxurious by way of ill-gotten gains, as opposed to shopping at Bergdorf's. Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots is a book that goes where we can't and takes the reader into the bedrooms, bathrooms and every other room of the rich and disreputable, most of which have now been destroyed. Subjects include Lenin, Hitler, Hussein and Noriega.

Author Peter York, described as a "style-guru" who believes that our homes are where we truly express ourselves, analyzes and comments with smart, snide writing that make the book as interesting as the images, many which are surprisingly vibrant, if tasteless, though the subjects had dark lives.

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Brangelina Baby Pic Sold for $4.9M

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly sold the rights to the first picture of their as-yet-unborn child for $4.9 million (£2.6 million) to an unnamed American weekly magazine. The money will be donated to the children's charity, UNICEF. Knowing that the paparazzi are likely to try to snap pictures of the baby as soon after it is born as possible, the couple "figured they might as well use the opportunity of one child being born to help a lot of others." Angelina's due date is supposed to be in early June.

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Tags: $5 million, angelina jolie, baby, brad pitt, BradPitt, brangelina, child, magazine, paparazzi, photo, photos, picture

Tipper Gore's Art Collection

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Tipper Gore, the wife of former vice president Al Gore, is about to make her mark on the art world. She has just reached a deal with Mitchell Gold Bob Williams to sell some of her personal photographs to their retail stores. Many of the photographs are images taken during her travels around the world and include close up portraits of figures, like Nelson Mandela, and historic events, such as the handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. The full collection includes more than 30 photographs. Each will be displayed in a gallery frame and will come with a certificate of authenticity and will be signed by Tipper Gore. The pieces are expected to sell for between $1,500 and $2,000.

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Digital Photo Frame, Mother's Day Gift of the Day

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

Photos are always a great gift for a mother because they are the only way you can come close to physically handing someone a memory. Before you dismiss that as overly-sappy, just ask a mother.

And ever-growing number of people rely on their digital cameras for all their photography and many never bother to get those digital pictures printed out, storing them on a hard drive instead. With a frame like this Digital Photo Frame by Phillips at the Sharper Image, the need to make physical copies of pictures - even for the purpose of gift giving - will be a thing of the past. The frame features a 6.5-inch color LCD screen, with 133-ppi and 720x480 resolution. There are multiple display modes with allow you to view one picture in full-screen mode, browse through up to 14MB of stored photos or create a slide show with up to 80 images. The frame is rechargeable and comes with a USB cable to connect it to your computer, but it also has a built-in reader for compact flash, SD, MMC and memory sticks. Price: $249.95.

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