Book of INSTAGRAMS
(no, it's not you. the picture above is static so click on link here: click here to see the 20-page book to view the book)
www.instagrams.com (or from ITUNES app store) www.blurb.com
(no, it's not you. the picture above is static so click on link here: click here to see the 20-page book to view the book)
www.instagrams.com (or from ITUNES app store) www.blurb.com
(pic 1/2): Vera Wang has developed a line of wedding gowns from $600 for DAVID'S BRIDAL. Yes, even by looking at the promotional images there may be some compromising on the delicate hue and feel of nature-made silk (pic 3 by Paulo Roversi for VERA WANG)
In 2000 a friend of mine was ISO a simple, chic and cheap wedding dress. She was a photographer and had yet ascended to the photo staff of The Washington Post (she did that in 2004, I think...). We found a small boutique in New Hampshire where she was living and asked if, perhaps, she could order a bridesmaids dress in white. "um, no." Apparently, wedding dress designers stay one step ahead of value-conscious brides and do all they can to thwart her cash saving strategies. "You have to buy at least three so they know it's for the wedding party."
So we hit the clearance rack in the back.Let me rephrase, it was a cardboard box from a sheet metal manufacturer and inside were some very fabricated dresses.
We tried not to questions how and why these dresses lived in the box, until we started digging. No materials or colors from here. Most of the dress were 100% polyester. I managed to unearth a size 6 dress that may have been originally white, but I decided it lived in the store window for a few months and the sun rays gilded and the polyester.
"OK, so it has a slight suntan and it will be a little scratchy...I'll just overexpose the film when I shoot the pictures and you can run inside and lift your train to circulate the air underneath every so often."
My friend paid $100 and bought the dress right off the bin. It fit perfectly and photographed beautifully (pic 3 by MISSY MCLAMB. I even managed to overexpose enough to turn the dress white and dissolve her sweat beads.