Levitating photography from Melvin Sokolsky’s 1965 photo spread entitled Fly, for the Spring Collection in Harper’s Bazaar.

Larry Sultan died last Sunday at the age of 63. He was an internationally recognized photographer and a distinguished professor in Photography at CCA. [Via The Daily Beast]

Bert de Muynck’s photos of a city in transition.

WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs having sex outdoors? Was 1970s Tokyo so crowded, its apartments so small, that they were forced to seek privacy in public parks at night? And what about those peeping toms? Are the couples as oblivious as they seem to the gawkers trespassing on their nocturnal intimacy?

If the social phenomena captured in these photographs seem distinctly linked to Japanese culture, Mr. Yoshiyuki’s images of voyeurs reverberate well beyond it. Viewing his pictures means that you too are looking at activities not meant to be seen. We line up right behind the photographer, surreptitiously watching the peeping toms who are secretly watching the couples. Voyeurism is us.

The series, titled “The Park,? is on view at Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, the first time the photographs have been exhibited since 1979, when they were introduced at Komai Gallery in Tokyo. For that show the pictures were blown up to life size, the gallery lights were turned off, and each visitor was given a flashlight. Mr. Yoshiyuki wanted to reconstruct the darkness of the park. “I wanted people to look at the bodies an inch at a time,? he has said. [Via “Sex in the Park, and it’s Sneaky Spectators”,NY Times]

“Layers of Voyeurism”, NY Times Slideshow

Hypebeast

Cue leggy girls with perfect tits and muscular male models simulating torture and rape. Slap on a corny title like “Make Love, Not War” and, in the mindless world of fashion, it becomes “a message.” Shot by photographer provocateur Stephen Meisel. [Via Style.it]

It is in the buildings of the collective Pain O Chokola that was held all the last week end the exposure of the Japanese photographer Yasumasa “Yone” Yonehara. A ton of its personal stereotypes was thus presented for our greater pleasure. One will note, with the passage, two collaborations on photographs, with Parra and Fafi. Small anthology…[Via GLLTN] Also peep more photos.

Tank Thong, Triple Stripe Stirrup Socks, Pantytime, Self Service, and Vice. Checkout more classy photos here or here.

Larry Sultan was born in Brooklyn in 1946 and grew up in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles during the 1950s.

Some sweet photos from tomo on flickr.

Also, checkout these from kotori.