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Marlene Marino selecting her pictures for Purple Fashion magazine #14 at the Purple office, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Caroline Gaimari at the Acne Paper Issue 10 launch party at the Carlyle Hotel, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Natasa Vojnovic at the Acne Paper Issue 10 launch party at the Carlyle Hotel, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

The view from the 22nd floor of the Carlyle Hotel, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

A night at the Jane Hotel

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Sophomore girl Kimbra Lo in her Sophomore peace sign t-shirt on the West Side Highway, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Andre Saraiva, Terry Richardson, and Olivier Zahm on a shoot for the next issue of Purple Fashion magazine at Milk Studios, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Mel Ottenberg on a shoot for the next issue of Purple Fashion magazine at Milk Studios, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Frame tales by Larry Johnson

Marc Jancou’s new Chelsea space recently opened a solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Larry Johnson. Johnson follows the tradition of John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha in form and idea. The works explore reproduction and appropriation through text based imagery. For this current show, Johnson pulls newspaper covers from the LA Times and coolly sets many of them against a Hollywood green screen. The newspaper headlines recall the devastation of the 1993 California wildfires but there is no emotion behind these images—as though pain and loss are simply a Hollywood production and not part of actual life.

Text and picture by Juliana Balestin

Lunch with Chloe Sevigny in her Fassbinder T-shirt, Cafe Orlin, New York. Photo Olivier Zahm

Leaving New York, Williamsburg Bridge. Photo Olivier Zahm

A train on the Amtrak to Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Photo Rachel Chandler

Andre and his daughter Henrietta, Purple Institute, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Asia Zahm in her new dress, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Natacha Ramsay with my old Triumph Daytona wearing a Balenciaga leather dress and a Margiela vintage military jacket I gave her, Maison du Caviar, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm