Little Bunny Dress! Silver Screen and Kodachrome Muse?

 

I love the Classic Hollywood looks of the early Silverscreen and Kodachrome starlets that were the original muses of directors. 

  

 John Ford, Frank Capra, Robert Wise, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor to name a few, mused over many actresses on the silver screen! Silver lenticular (vertically ridged) screens, litereally would have silver or some other metal in them that would make the starlets shine like a diamond when projected onto the screens, even in black and white! No longer used for most films they are still used in 3D projections and 3D posters... now there's a reason to go to an Imax this weekend!

 What an honor it must have been to have your image so beautifully projected onto silver. No wonder people used to get dressed up to go see a movie for the night!

   Kodachrome was invented by two musicians, Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes in the early 1930s. Kodak's chief scientist helped develope their patents in the Kodak labs creating amazing technicolor images; Photography and thus the 'model' was changed forever! 

Photographers like Peter Basch, Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, and of course Richard Avedon were all artists well ahead of their time and most of their most famous models and shots were done with Kodachrome film. Many of Playboy's classic centerfolds were created in Kodachrome and are inspirations of many models and photographers today!

  You have to wonder what drove men to work years on inventing such lucid technologies one after another to give women opportunities to grace their images with. You could argue behind every man's great invention there is a muse. Necessity is the mother of all invention, and.. as Paul Simon said, "Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!"

  

Model:     Jodi Kronmann 

            the bolivian doll™

Photographer:   Willis Roberts NYC

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Happy Spring & LOVE to All!

It's Easter and it's the day of faith in the resurrection of Christ for Christians around the world! Celebrated with family and friends going to Mass having large festive meals and painting and hiding Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies for children, and for those of us who are still children at heart!

This week was also full of Holiday celebrations.

There's Holi होली festival of colours, which is the celebration of the miraculous survival of Prahlada, celebrated in neon color by Hindus throwing beautiful colors in the air and on each other. In Manhattan there was a huge festival downtown and everyone was walking around with neon powder all over thier faces and clothes it was awesome!!

There's Pesach פֶּסַח celebrating freedom from slavery by Moses with large family dinners where people invite anyone who wants to go Jewish or not, eat way too much, drink sweet wine and reenact the same dinner people have had over 3000 years. And Jesus may have had his own Sedar which was the last super. 

To me and probably to most people all these Spring Holidays and especially Easter represents a day of renewal and rebirth. Most importantly they represent faith.
Faith in something that makes no sense to what we understand in our every day lives. Faith in something that has no explanation. Faith in not needing 'evidence' and proof of a miracle to know it exists.

I was orphaned as a baby in the poorest, albeit most beautiful country in South America, and my American parents had no easy task finding me, or me them. I didn't know my birth family until I was grown.

When I went to Bolivia to find my birth family, I had only the name my birth mother signed on  my adoption papers. And nothing else.
She had no birth certificate being she was born number 5 of 8 children at home in a tiny town next to the Amazon. They were extremely Catholic with French roots and I thank Gd they believed in having every miracle Gd gave them. I was born, Baptized, given a Catholic name, and then given to my American parents. I have no real birth certificate and I had until recently, no knowledge of my birth father's name or any other family members or if she had remarried, moved, nothing...

I went to the town I was born in. Sta. Cruz De La Sierra and used my broken Spanish to navigate the town. I was super frustrated. No one could help me. No one was listed. No one knew anything.
Then I found a little church, which was one of many, as the town is extremely Catholic. 
It was an outdoor church with a thatched like roof and wooden benches facing a huge bright painting of Jesus. It was beautiful. I sat there and I prayed. I don't know for how long, but I prayed for help to find my birth mother and my birth father and any guidance or help I would need to be put on the right path for my search.

I won't get into it now how I found my birth family but I will say: Within two days after I said my prayers. I found my family that had been lost to me most of my life. Both my parents had passed away when I was a small child so I did not get to meet them. But knowing where I came from and meeting my birth family in such an impossible circumstance answered so many prayers I've had since I was a little girl. It makes no sense I found them. It makes no sense I found my mother who had died and not even lived in the city I was left in when she died, and left no public records. It made no sense how I found my birth father's family when not even my birth mother's family knew who he was and she took his name to her grave, until I discovered in a manner that can only be described as.. miraculous.

But I found them. And I know with all the faith in my heart. It was that prayer, on that wooden bench in that little thatched roof church in that country that is beautiful and wild and fiercly devoted to faith that showed me the way.
That's why I have faith in things that make no sense. That's why I know there is more to us than what we see and that's why I know G-d has a plan for all of us.

I hope you love this time of year as I do! May there be many more fun Holidays and celebrations of faith and life and Springtimes in your future!

Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Happy Holi! And may all your prayers be heard and answered and may your love of your faith grow stronger every day!

Much LOVE,
Jodi XXOO

Amazonian Woman :: Gold Rush

These shots I love! They are all part of the Jodi Kronmann Bolivian Doll™ Golden Doll series. I call it Gold Rush on the Blog because I love the connection between the South American roots and the European ancestors that went looking for gold in the Amazon which the city I'm from was built next to.
And lets be honest some went without women and had to find their wives among the Amazonian tribes and these shots have that South American mixed heritage look. The Jodi Kronmann  Golden Doll shots also have that feel of those locations in South America like Sta. Cruz De La Sierra where you know the money was made with the resources off the land generations ago and the families now enjoy the legacy of their forefathers with swimming pools among palm trees in haciendas. Most people there have a pool it gets hot as hell and humid!! Remember the Amazon 'beach' is an Amazon river side. And trust me they pull out some amazingly delicious fish out of those rivers as big as you find in the sea. But I think most people prefer to cool of in their pool.

Both sides of my South American family my great or great-great grandparents came from the Southwest U.S. for the mines and Gold and Silver, or from Europe for the rubber trees for tire production when cars became popular. And they left legacies in their last names and their settlements along with people from all over the world missionaries included. Later businesses and positions in the army or government these descendants would acquired by using their legacy and their names. Also they left their European looks mixed with the exotic features of the Amazon which are probably at this point about 5-10% in the old blood line from those historical explorer days in the 1400s-1800s. In my ancestors case, some came with whole families some came alone. But it was as wild of a frontier as the old west and the men dominated the show.

When the media calls 6 ft non-ethnically mixed women Amazonian, I think two thoughts about it, I get the reference to the Amazonian female warriors in Central Asia who came from the north. But who were recently found to be mixed European as well as Asian and the South American wild and beautiful Amazon was named after that wild tribe.
But the 'Amazonian' women I've seen are forest like nymphs with waif like thin bodies plus curves and mixed features for example naturally golden or cappuccino skin and golden hair with green almond shaped eyes or super light skin and black hair and light brown eyes, and very rarely is someone with either Amazon blood from South America or Central Asia is looking 100% anything and even more rare are the 6 ft women with no curves. The 'amazon women' war tribes were part Asian from the central steeps of Asia and the current Amazon women are from Central and South America and at this point unless they are pure Indigenous blood they are mostly mixed.

I'd like to take the reference back.
To me it means exotic feminine power and mixed beauty and the awe inspiring presence that it brings when you see it because its unique and lets just leave it at that. 💋🌟🌴💃
THX for reading Mis Amores!! XO hope you like...

Jodi Kronmann Bolivian Doll™ Gold Rush

  I love this shoot because I love the pink and gold and the South American feel of the shot. The first Europeans went to Bolivia looking for gold.. and they found it!!

  The city I was born in is next to the Amazon and the most prosperous part of the country because of the rich natural resources and the relationships between the older families and the newer immigrants from all over the world.

Jodi Kronmann Bolivian Doll™ :: St. Patty's Day Behind the Scenes Photos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBhldyS1K_Q&feature=youtu.be