Portfolio by Rima Kazumyan ° 2

‘The strong women in Soft Focus’ by Rima Kazumyan

The original inspiration I took from Marie Claire US Sept.2009, the theme ‘Soft Focus’, photography by Mary Rozzi.
I have combined the concept of a strong woman with contradicting characteristic features such as the beauty, style and elegance. The real lush fur gilets, tawny bolero jackets, woolly-sleeved sweats and the soft wool trousers are warming up the season. Just like on my portfolio ‘The strong women in Soft Focus’.




The below post, the original sketches that I made for my portfolio.










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Portfolio by Rima Kazumyan

The inspiration which Rima posted on my blog in Inspiration n° 1 , inspired by the fashion designer No. 21 by Alessandro Dell’ Acqua ready-to-wear Fall 2011. All illustrations by Rima Kazumyan.

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter was born 1923, is an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as The New York School. Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s


After attending the Telshe Yeshiva Rabbinical College in Cleveland, Ohio Leiter moved to New York to pursue painting. His photographic work is included in the collections of the Museum of Moodern Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Leiter’s most recent exhibitions are Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, Saul Leiter, Galleria C arla Sozzani, Milan and Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery.











Very stunning photos and it’s looks like more street photographer, i just love it!
Find out more about Saul Leiter’s book – “I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn’t matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.” Since the 1940s, Saul Leiter, an inveterate walker, has trawled the streets of New York, capturing its colors and spirit. His liking for disarray, solitude and elusiveness make him a unique artist, quite unconcerned about joining the throng.
“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.” This volume contains several previously unpublished color pictures alongside Leiter’s early work in black-and-white. Co-published with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.
Read more about Mr.Leiter book and more biography.

Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade is a 24 year-old artist who has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art.

Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same. Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life.


Meade’s approach to portraiture questions our understanding of the body and identity. Meade coats her models with a mask of paint, obscuring the body while intimately exposing it, creating an unflinchingly raw account of the person. The painted second skin perceptually dissolves the body into a 2D caricature. The subjects become art objects as they are transformed into re-interpretations of themselves. In turn, the models’ identities become altered by their new skin, embodying Meade’s dictated definition of their image to the viewer.


Meade’s project plays on the tensions between being and permanence. The physical painting exists only for mere hours and is obliterated when the model sheds its metaphorical skin. What endures is an artifact of the performance, a 2D photograph extracted from the 3D scene. The photographic presentations create a tension between the smoothness of the physical photographs and the tactility of the painted installations captured within them, blurring the lines between what is depicted and depiction itself.

To view her latest work, check Alexa’s Flickr page. And her web-site.