A Writer's Blog That's Not.
How many mystery and noir-ish crime stories begin in a bar? Start things out with a drunk, a B-girl, a pickup or a clandestine meeting. Sure, good things can happen over a drink, and bad things are bound to occur over too many. Argentine model Magda Laguinge acts like she’s had a few or a few too many in this 2013 B&W fashion editorial from Interview Germany, shot by Sebastian Faena and directed by Julia von Boehm.
Like film stills from a Pre-Code Depression era movie…only better. A gritty coldwater flat is artfully set to period-perfection by stylist Kari Temlplar, formidable actress Nicole Kidman is dressed down but incredibly sultry, all lensed by photographer Fabien Baron for a 2015 issue of Interview magazine for an article by Kidman’s director Lee Daniels, the two partnering on the 2012 film Paperboy.
Don’t stop to chat, to share a smoke or even to pause for a second glance. Just keep going, eyes straight ahead. Don’t talk to strangers, because you know this one will be nothing but trouble. By Mikael Jansson, for Interview magazine in 2013.
Actress Blake Lively in a gritty photo editorial by British photographer Craig McDean for Interview Magazine’s 2010 September Fall Fashion Issue Interview Magazine, shot using…well, I don’t know what, but recreating a police station holding tank’s grainy CCTV surveillance camera images.
A dark stairway can lead to many different places, and in these images, it’s most likely to lead to some kind of trouble. Or…not. Karl Lagerfeld shoots Carine Roitfeld for Interview Magazine in 2011.
Noir Style in color: Mert & Marcus shoot Saskia De Brauw and Marique Schimmel for Interview magazine.
