By Drew Grant 9/11/12 2:43pm

Photography

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Piel on the set of a 'Vogue' shoot

Model Behavior: Denis Piel Has a Way With Women

You are looking at a photo of a man in a coffee shop. He is wearing a straw hat, frayed around the edges. His hair is white underneath, and long. His hand is grasping a coffee cup, but he is not looking at it. He is looking at someone out of frame, making a gesture with his free hand: fingers extended, palm pointed slightly diagonal and down. The universal sign for “This is the important part.” In mid-gesture, he is animated. He does not seem to know he is being photographed.

This is how Denis Piel might have posed the scene of himself being interviewed about his latest book, Moments. The photographer with the flair for the cinematic is set to release a coffee table collection later this month with Rizzoli. Moments is a series of images, mainly of models and actresses, that Mr. Piel shot on the set of various advertising and editorial campaigns during his tenure in the ’80s as of one the magazine world’s Big Names. Read More

By Moira Hodgson 6/25/01 12:00am

Cruising the Tribeca Riviera for Purely Shellfish Reasons

On a recent warm evening, I stopped for dinner at L’Oursin, a new seafood bistro in Tribeca. Its French doors were opened onto the sidewalk, where a blackboard had been set up, advertising happy hour and chalked with specials. The restaurant, next to Popeyes on Chambers Street, could almost have been in some tacky beach Read More

By William Norwich 2/22/99 12:00am

A Former Model Finds Beauty on the Other Side of the Camera

Maybe it’s because she worked as a circus girl when she was a teenager in Germany–in fishnet stockings, she circled the ring after each act. Or because she had to survive a childhood of certain hard knocks–she was orphaned by age 2. Whatever the inspiration, photographer Ellen von Unwerth’s pictures, which appear mostly in Vogue Read More