The Visionaire 56 Solar all-white cover transforms into color in direct sunlight.

Visionaire is a fashion and art publication that is published three times a year in limited quantities.  Each issue explores a theme and the content and format changes with each issue, with contributing artists collaborating with Visionaire to create their interpretations of the theme.

Issue 56 of Visionaire recently released in a limited quantity of 3,000 copies worldwide.  The theme of the issue is Solar - and true to it’s theme - the white cover, and black and white photographs inside, change to color when exposed to sunlight.  Yoko Ono, Mario Sorrenti, Alex Katz, Olaf Breuning, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vindooh Matadin, Peter Lindbergh, and Ryan McGinley are some of the artists contributing to this extraordinary issue.

I would love to get my hands on a copy of this.  The makers of Visionaire are truly visionary and they always find a way to delight the senses in presenting art and fashion.  You can purchase your copy online on the Visionaire Web Store.

The International Center of Photography is hosting yearlong series of exhibitions, “The Year of Fashion,” focusing on fashion photography from the 1920s to the present. The series sets out to highlight the relationship between art and fashion and will feature the works of Richard Avedon, Nick Knight, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, Michael Thompson, Edward Steichen and Miles Aldridge. Upcoming shows include “David Seidner: Paris Fashion, 1945,” and in May, Richard Avedon’s photos will be the central focus on an exhibition.

The first exhibit opens on January 16th and features the photography Edward Steichen. A few months back I saw the Vanity Fair exhibit at the LACMA while I was visiting LA and my favorite photos were those taken by Edward Steichen. He was Chief Photographer for Condé Nast Publications so his work was regularly featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair. The exhibit was quite amazing because it included videos of photo shoots that Steichen conducted and what made it so impressive what the kind of photography that was popular at the time.  You know those old accordian-type cameras where the photographer covers himself in black velvet cover to take the picture?  Each individual slide/negative is inserted before each shot:   It was a very tedious and painstaking process, but watching a master of light such as Steichen, he made the process look very easy, with cigarette in hand the whole time, of course.  The show opens on January 16th and includes 175 photos by Steichen, with many of the photos from the Condé Nast archives from 1923 to 1937.

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Photographer Mario Sorrenti lensed Naomi Campbell taking on NYC for a V Magazine piece, titled “The Empire Strikes Back”  and love her, hate her or love-to-hate-her, there’s no denying it—the girl is fierce!

You can find more images from the V Magazine spread HERE!