I've got something pretty cool to share with you guys today. This is a project that culminated in a book by a French photographer by the name of Catalan ballet and this is called Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden Shoes and what this is. It is a project that consists of iconic photographs that were recreated by the photographer using her friend as a model, Ricardo,

and most of them feature his golden shoes as well.

And this is a really interesting project, and really what it does is it's a set of 120 images

that span pretty much the history of photography.

Everybody from Lewis Hine to Augustander,

Edward Curtis is involved, Paul Strand, Gordon Parks,

Irving Penn, Richard Abadon, Annie Leibowitz, everybody has pretty much been covered in this

book and I find this extremely interesting.

This book was sent to me by my friend Tier who owns a gallery in Paris.

And Tier and I met in New York a couple months ago and he actually introduced me to Ralph Gibson

was responsible for this. He sent me this book probably a couple weeks ago and I got it out of the mail I opened it up I thought it was

pretty cool I had not heard of the project and it's one of those things that's been

sitting on my desk and every time I passed by I kind of pick it up and look again

and I can dig a little deeper and after reading about this

this project I think what's interesting about this is in many ways one it

relates to a lot of the things I've been talking about in the last couple

videos that I've done this week and two I think it acts is somewhat of a

lynchpin in these terms so if you consider the role that photography is

played and she talks a lot about this in the written part of this book.

If you consider the role that photography has played,

especially in the early years,

and what it's become today with the proliferation

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