some kind of freedom

i've quited GAP today. what a relief!
London looks much nicer while being unemployed I must say;)

afterwards i decided to visit an exibition in National Portrait Gallery named Face of Fashion. the exhibition is mostly sponsored by GAP and entry is free for GAP employees. i wanted to see it some time ago, but today it was just a perfect day to go there. or last chance to do so free of charge.
unfortunately, i didn't have my camera there, and what's more, only few classics, but not my favourites, can be found on the internet. however, i've come across somebody else's blog with illegaly taken photos. some of them were even blurred;)

the exibition presents photographs of famous people of different professions taken by four well known fashion photographers. huge part of the images are occupied by Kate Moss (photographed by various photo-artists and having almost no boobs at all in a few pictures); GAP Individuals (images of different celebrities wearing GAP clothing combined with their own style); the images express an intimate relationship between a photohrapher and a model that forms during the session. that is why the photographs differ. some of them show professionality of posing models, while the rest seem to be kind of confession of celebrities. the exhibition wasn't as dull as i'd expected it to be. however, i believe that my enthusiasm is due my interest in phoyography rather than due the theme of the event. i was also nicely surprised seeing two pictures of a Polish model Malgosia Bela that appeared in 2006 edition of W Magazine.

pictures that i liked the most because of its intimacy is a photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taken by Steve Klein in 2005. she's lying on bed and he's watering the garden while holding a pint. i also liked Paolo Roversis's close-up on Jude Law. it shows an actor with a bit unusual look and sitting on a bench . what amazes in this image is the clarity of the picture and the focus on the star only. the background is hardly visible. there are some beautiful people and/or images that interest the viewer due to the technique used to photograph an 'object'. good examples are Mario Rosenti's close-ups of faces and Corine Day's ability to capture the real look of her models. some of her photographs look as if taken with a hidden camera.