All posts filed under: 18th Century

Unexpected treasures: antique textiles at the Honolulu Museum of Art

When I go on a trip, I like to look back over my images when I get back and see what the first image I took was: the first thing that inspired me to pull out my camera and commemorate it. This is my first photograph from my recent trip to Hawaii: It’s an 18th century shoe in the textile store at the Honolulu Museum of Art. I love this. It’s so typically me: the first thing I wanted to do on Oahu was go to the HMA, and the first thing I immortalised was a 250 year old shoe — not the usual Hawai’i image at all! I’m lucky enough to know the director of the Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Art), and he really wanted me to meet the textile curator and tour the textile store. Was I interested? Are you kidding! Of course! I thought the HMA textile collection would be very Hawai’i focused — all Hawaiian quilts, vintage holoku, kapa (barkcloth) and woven …

Historical Hijinks

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Every time I do a photoshoot I end up with a few darling, hilarious, and quite-unserious photos. It’s just impossible for my friends and models to be entirely straightfaced about the whole business of putting on mad period clothes and posing in public settings. Here are my favourite out-takes from the photoshoot with Theresa. They are mostly of Theresa: either I was being very serious that day, or she never aimed the camera at the moments when I was goofing off!

Sitting pet-y

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Remember how I told you there are a LOT of of good photos from the photoshoot Theresa and I had at the old Dominion Museum? Yeah. I wasn’t kidding! This is one of my favourites from the whole shoot. There is something about her mouth and eyes that really reminds me of a Gainsborough: The whole series is pretty spectacular though, both standing in front of the windows, and sitting on the windowsill.