Jean-Paul Goude inspires

I think this photo is by Jean-Paul Goude, I tried to download some of his other images but they all seem to have strict licensing thingo's attached. However, if you feel like checking some of his more esoteric works out, go to 'Hasted Hunt', where they have an excellent collection. Otherwise, you can see a lot of his better known works if you just put his name in google images.
I was reminded about him, when I started to look through the Guy Bourdin images, both of them were around a lot in the seventies and eighties. Jean-Paul is still very active in the advertising world. In my opinion he was the creator of Grace Jones's mystique, with his wild images of her in his book: 'Jungle Fever'. (she was his muse, and mother of a son, Paulo). My dog-eared copy still has an important place on the book shelf.

Guy Bourdin at The Wapping Project

Unfortunately, this exhibition is no longer on! Finished a few days ago, but still interesting to check out some of the images and to quote from Maison Chaplin: 'The legendary photographer Guy Bourdin has just had a show "unseen Guy Bourdin" exhibition, in London's gallery The Wapping Project. The exhibition included pictures of Bourdin never exposed to the public before, including 32 works of his last Parisian stage.
Bio: Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) was one of the most famous fashion and advertising photographers during the second half of the twentieth century. He shared his taste for controversy and style with his colleague Helmut Newton, but the audacity and narrative power of his images exceed the limits of conventional advertising photography.'

sky jewels @ the Jungle Club

I've been neglecting this blog over the last few days, guess I'm getting caught up in the full moon vibe. However, I needed to say something, and so I've worked more on this image, which I started to create about five years ago. I always really like it, I'm not sure why, except that there's something darkly erotic and sensual going on, and the jewellery is pale sky blue and silver, which is a little unexpected with the rest of it.