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Francisco's Picks: The Calvin Klein Creative Director's Favorite Photos From Tomorrow's Photographers For Friends Benefit Auction
31 May 2011, 7:00 pm
Tomorrow night, Friends in Deed, a New York-based crisis center for those dealing with life-threatening illnesses and their caregivers, holds its annual benefit auction, Photographers for Friends. Photos by modern masters such as Diane Arbus, Patrick Demarchelier, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nan Goldin, and Robert Mapplethorpe will go on the block to support the center’s programs.
Among the offerings? A nearly life-sized Gisele, for one. Gilles Bensimon’s 4′ by 5-1/3′ shot of the Brazilian supermodel is one of the favorites of photography collector (and, of course, Calvin Klein Collection creative director) Francisco Costa, who shared his top picks from the offerings exclusively with Style.com. Classics like Louise Dahl-Wolfe’s Mary Sykes with Postcards, Puerto Rico, 1938 and Arbus’ Transvestite After Her Birthday Party, NYC from 1969, as well as more contemporary prints, like Three Drowning Ladies (below) by David Needleman (a former assistant of Steven Meisel’s), which Costa calls “brilliant,” and Gary Schneider’s Carly’s Legs from 2006 (”this one is really great,” bottom) also impressed the designer. And the late, great Elizabeth Taylor—in a shot from the set of Suddenly Last Summer in 1959 (below)—caught Costa’s eye, too.
And about Gisele, what is there to say that hasn’t been said already? Costa summed it up nicely: “Amazing.”
The Photographers for Friends cocktails and auction is held tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 Park Ave., NYC. For tickets, contact (800) 996-5433 or mcohen@friendsindeed.org.
Photo: Courtesy of Photographers for Friends |
