Valérie Belin & CocoRosie

© Valérie Belin

Valérie Belin recently photographed the talented and fabulous Sierra & Bianca Casady -- the sisters behind the band CocoRosie -- for this Sunday's NY Times Magazine.

Valérie Belin is an amazing photographer and inspiration. Her powerful studies of mannequins, Michael Jackson impersonators, body builders and simple objects such as bags of potato chips, masks, and engines, never cease to amaze. They are simple, thoughtful, and stunning. Examples below.


All image © Valérie Belin.



Laura and I had the opportunity to see CocoRosie in 2005, and we (or I) LOVED them! I've fallen out of the music scene lately, but I hear their new album is insane. Check out a video from the album below.



Bianca is a talented visual artist herself, recently having a show at Deitch Projects. After the CocoRosie show that night in 2005, I stuck around to buy a shirt. I was lucky enough to have Bianca personalize the back of it for me. I told her I really wanted a shirt with the tour dates on it. So she told me to put it on. The next thing I know, she is drawing on my back. It has since faded, but she wrote, adding a few extra squiggles here and there, "CocoRosie, 1993 World Tour." It was nice while it lasted.