Thursday, September 9, 2010

The New Book Project

Everyone who has ever done a book, knows it takes a long time to get the work together.
You select your most important work and then you make another selection, shoot more interesting stuff, you have new ideas and projects you want to include and then you can't stop working and want to get the very best out of it ... I have taken thousands of images with so many models in the past years, and then at the end I cut everything down to the very best.
A view weeks ago I had another meeting with David Fahey who is the Curator of my next book. .. I was excited to see all my work spread out on the Gallery floor, the legendary magic of those rooms and all those famous people who went through those halls and are presented on those walls. I felt like I was standing in a church of photographic art... In between my work ... and there was no doubt, I needed to enjoy this rare and satisfying feeling for a little moment , before we started to do the sequencing of the book. We looked at the work, shifted right and left, back and forth and discussed for hours. I even had to sort out some very loved strong images ... and I can tell this hurts a lot, if you just can't find a spot in the flow to include an image without braking up the smooth and round finish of the order. Anyway I did let it go , as I was very sure David Fahey had the unique and genius eye he gave me that day to sequence my book. I was very happy about his excitement and passion and after a long session late at night I went home with my huge stack of images, that are now the beginning of something new...




Friday, September 3, 2010

Crazy Hair and Dirty Feet

The last week was a lot of fun...
My muses and dearest friends, Angela and Cynn came to visit me in L.A.
Nora (my assistant and art director ) and myself developed crazy and cool concepts. Together, with the girls and our "one and only" make up artist Jacqui, we realized several fashion and beauty concepts...
It was a creative week with endless fun, work, play and wine. We all went to the wild side of life ...
My studio was the playground where we just let go...yes, we went crazy crazy crazy...but the best part of it...the perfect results!
I posted some behind the scene pics...Enjoy!!!






Saturday, July 24, 2010

New Cover German VELVET Magazine


























They did it again. The German Fashion and Lifestyle Magazine VELVET used one of the "Big Cat" images I shot, for their Cover of the summer issue. It shows one of my favorite Models Ashley and a Cougar in the snow.

check out VELVET Magazine it's fun if you speak German ...










Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sylvie Blum the Book M like Male Nudes
















If you haven't seen this book before, you should check it out. I published it in Germany in 2004. Now you can order this rare and exclusive sexy coffee table book online at amazon.com.

M like Male Nudes
males, men, simply M gives an intimate look, provocative view and highly erotic overview on the male gender. The contrast of sensitive studies to provacative theatrics make "M" to an event. An ode to men and a pure pleasure for the viewer.
128 pages, 80 images, Hardcover








The Book Sylvie Blum Nudes




Now it is time to talk about my second book, Nudes. It was published in 2002 in Germany by Edition Braus. It is a wonderful coffee table book.144 pages,80 images, Hardcover.


“Nudes” was born in photo sessions in Miami, Los Angeles, Mallorca and Berlin. The project is the vision of incomparable beautiful, self secure women that are being set by this exceptionally great photographer. American modelling icons are photographed against the black and white silhouettes of Hollywood. It’s Narcissism in it’s most beautiful. Through Sylvie Blum’s outdoor settings she is able to express timeless ecstatic. Endless deserts, monstrous cities, the deepest oceans, the cool architecture of Beverly Hills and Palm Beach, poorly packed industry hallways, the flair of Mediterranean property on through the graffiti filled backyards of Berlin are the base of this great inspiration. Through wise choices in shot and lighting Silvie Blum’s extraordinary style is being underlined. Naked Beauty.

You can order this rare and beautiful book now also in the USA.














Monday, March 15, 2010

New Cover Donna Feldman


our new Cover with Donna Feldman FHM Australia.....

Thursday, January 7, 2010

2010 starts with a Cover !!! German MAXIM


The beautiful and talented actress,
singer, writer and supermodel
Amy Weber is our new cover girl for the German Maxim 1/2010 issue.
We had a great day shooting Amy and again we are happy seeing our work published.
make up
by the very talented Jacqui Jordan.