behind the scenes talk

One of my most loved models Afua is posing at the studio. Nana the model came by to say something at the end.
enjoy this is fun!

Vel Jones posing for me

Naked Beauty from Sylvie Blum on Vimeo.

From Paris with Love

The past 3 weeks I spent in Paris. It was an adventurous trip. I rented a studio in Montmartre that used to be once Picasso's atelier. The spirit that was owned by this shabby house on top of the hill near Sacre Coeur was magic. The view from it's place breath taking, presenting the City of Lights beneath my eyes. Inspired by this, I decided to shoot the nudes on those iconic places the city has to offer... Tour Eiffel, Champs-Élysées, Pont Alexandre, Louvre, Arc de Triomphe and many more.
Thanks to all those wonderful models that worked so hard with me on this project ....
and a very special kiss goes to Gina and Kim Weston who spent time with me in Paris, exploring the food and the wine... the landmarks of the french capitol and for all those creative conversations we had during our wonderful stay. Kim Weston also photographed in Paris and as many already know I'm a big admirer of his genius work.

VELVET Cover 2011

VELVET the German lifestyle and fashion magazine is celebrating their 25th annual issue. We are so very proud that our beautiful Super Model Donna Feldman appears on their cover.
Also our Ariane Sommer images from the Peta Campaign are published in this issue, including an interview with this Super Beauty and a very exciting short story.
... again we love you Velvet !!!!

New Cover German Maxim 2011

The new year 2011 starts with a cover at German Maxim.
This time we met beautiful actress Laura Niles at the studio. The sexy action girl and black belt beauty appeared in several US TV shows. For us she jumped into her bikini and posed for the cover.

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...

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!!!

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 ...

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.

amazon.com

Sylvie Blum The Model

Before I picked up my camera starting a career as a photographer in 2000, I worked over 16 years as a model with many international known photographers. I was married to my mentor the photographer and artist Guenter Blum, he passed away in 1997. He taught me everything about creating pictures and how to see things. I was fascinated by this man and his way to work. We both have been the perfect team. I was his wife, model and muse and I loved it very much. Our entire life was filled with creating pictures, getting inspired, building backgrounds, crafting crazy costumes, developing in the darkroom and every day I played a different role being a "Femme Fatale".

I would never have missed this amazing time and I would never had dreamed that one day it should end ...

some pictures I found today, we did together on a sunny, happy day ...

New Cover Donna Feldman

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

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.

New Work at the Fahey Klein Gallery

Again I'm very happy. Four of my new big prints were delivered to the

Fahey Klein Gallery.

I saw them for the very first time in this giant size and got excited about their quality and beauty.

I signed them and had 3 charming guys helping to handle them.

All images Archival Pigment Prints,

dimensions 43x56inch

Edition 10

www.faheykleingallery.com

New Cover and Editorial Maxim Germany

I'm very happy about our latest publication in Germany.

German Maxim published the cover and the editorial about the one and only Donna Feldman

in their November issue 2009.

Make Up Bebe Both

Hair Simon J. Miller

Wardrobe Stylist Sabrina Phillip

Wardrobe Designer Cassandra Kellog.

We all had such a great day at the studio shooting the most beautiful lady on earth our Donna Feldman.