Tony Amsterdam
What is beauty? Baudelaire formulated his esthetics in the essay “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863): “Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable element…and of a relative, circumstantial element,…the age, its fashions, is morals, its emotions”. I always liked his point of view and this little book where he praises women and dandies and the time he lived in. Since I’m not a woman, I wanted to be a dandy when I was young. Now I want to capture the eternal and contemporary beauty of women in pixels…along with a little sex and humor of course…
“Women have all the charms of life itself. They have all the essential attributes: beauty, ugliness, obscenity, purity… much more so than nature… A photographer who doesn’t take pictures of women is no photographer, or only a third rate one.” (Araki)
Photography, styling, editing, text, graphics, webdesign: Tony Amsterdam.
Clothing and shoes from Webers Holland by Désirée Webers, the best sexy fashion shop in Amsterdam.
Thanks to all the models and the open source coders!
