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I tell Alice the pictures I want. Only a certain cool blonde and a Islay single malt redhead. I recall a favorite bumper sticker in London, "Warning! I Brake for Blondes but Back Up for Redheads." I stand alone by an unused kitchen entrance and watch Alice shoot the room with a memory card clenched between her teeth and an extra lens in the crook of an arm.
No one sees like Alice Olive. In a world of self professed photographers, whose only pictures are ripped off cliches of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman & James Dean pasted on Tumblers with hackneyed Gore Vidal quotes (What is with these guys?) -- Miss Olive is the real deal.
After the show, we step off an elevator and into the lobby. A woman in a hat, in front of an 18th Century painting, stops me cold. I ask if Alice can take her picture. She agrees. I tell Alice what I want. Alice shoots it the way she wants which... if you see like Alice -- is the way it should be. But I crop it anyway...

7 comments:
texture, mood, style, and there she is.
My favorite is the one with the light on the hands near the waist.
Wow! .... just wow! ...
Bro- Yeah, she nails it. I just realized I didn't write bupkis about the jewelery.
Oyster Guy- I thought you'd like this.
Gorgeous work.
She gives a certain street photographer a run for his money. I actually think hers is better. There's a certain honesty to her work that I find pleasing.
--Matthew
Fantastic photos by Alice Olive! That's the way to display jewelry, and that's the way to shoot it. The B&Ws of the woman with the Carlotta Valdez-inspired twirl (from the movie "Vertigo") are breathtaking. Love the last shot, too. Reminiscent of William Klein's street work.
-DB
I love the shadows of the eyelashes and the woman with the beak hat. Gorgeous work.
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