Word: kolobrzeg
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...around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra's shot of a girl presenting herself in the grave light of the North Sea, called simply Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992, has nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with how a teenage body can be spindly and awkwardly canted but still have the celestial bearing, the beckoning power of a Renaissance Virgin...
...around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra's shot of a girl presenting herself in the grave light of the North Sea, called simply "Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992," has nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with how a teenage body can be spindly and awkwardly canted but still have the celestial bearing, the beckoning power of a Renaissance Virgin...
...Embarrassed Soviet officials later explained that the MiG's pilot had ejected shortly after takeoff from Poland's Kolobrzeg air base, in the mistaken belief that his aircraft had lost power. The plane flew on automatic pilot for 1 hour and 37 minutes, covering 560 miles before falling out of the sky. Soviet officials promised to pay for "physical and moral damages" caused by the mishap...
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