大概看了一下 这篇写的蛮不错的耶 不过期末考了大家应该没心情看 我稍微翻译一下翻太烂请不要鞭太大力 http://i32.tinypic.com/5l84rp.jpg The fashion rebirth of Venus Williams When fashion photographer Koto Bolofo spotted tennis star Venus Williams in a London street, he saw in her a grace and elegance that none had captured before. The result: a book of revelatory images of the world’s most iconic female tennis player 摄影师Koto Bolofo与Venus初次邂逅於伦敦街上 他看见了Venus从未被捕捉到的高贵优雅 最後他决定要替大威出一本摄影集 ----- To most people, Venus Williams is the Amazonian tennis player, who has won Wimbledon four times, with a whomping serve and muscle-bound limbs that go on for ever. Yet, as a new book of photographs shows, she also has an astonishing elegance and beauty. 对大多数人大威只是一个四届温网夺标的健壮黑人选手 但这本摄影集会让我们看到他同时也是位惊人的高贵美女 The book, Venus Williams, is a collaboration between the tennis player and South African-born photographer Koto Bolofo. The two first met four years ago when he spotted her walking down the street in London. 这本书大威会跟南非出生的Koto Bolofo合作 这两位在四年前的伦敦接上偶然相遇 “I turned a corner in Covent Garden and there was this tall, beautiful black woman,” remembers Bolofo, “and I thought, ‘I fancy her!’ I’d never seen such a graceful woman. She was wearing a bright fluorescent pink raincoat and stood out like a sore thumb.” Bolofo contacted her agent, suggesting the project. He had wanted to photograph her ever since he watched her win Wimbledon on the TV. “There was such a strength of woman in her,” he says. “I had never seen anyone like this. She was like a gazelle, so pure. But I wanted to photograph her my way – not as a sports star with lots of muscles, but as a woman.” "我在转角看见了这位高挑的黑人美女 他是我从未见过的那种优雅女人" 接下来他连络大威的经纪人并表示他从看见大威赢下温网时就想替大威出摄影集 "他有一股女人特有的力量 我想要用自己的方式拍摄他 不是从运动员的方面而是从一个女人的角度" “He wanted to work with me, a lowly tennis player!” is Williams’s self-mocking take on the matter. “He saw something in me that no one else has ever seen, the side that’s classic tennis player, with elegance and grace.” "他竟然想跟我合作 我只不过是个低排名选手!"大威如此自嘲 "他说他在我身上看见别人没看到的东西:一个典雅的网球选手" The two became friends and did a few magazine shoots together, including one for Italian Vogue. But Bolofo wanted more: he wanted to do a book. He had “a vision”, Williams says, of doing a chronicle of her life. 这两位成为朋友并且拍了几个杂志的沙龙照 当然包括了义大利版Vogue 但Bolofo的目标是出书 “I thought the photographs I’d seen of Venus were missing the point,” he says. “I wanted to say, ‘This is a woman, not a sports machine.’ I wanted to make an art book of a beautiful woman, not just someone who whacked a ball around.” "我认为我所看过的大威照片都缺乏了一部分 我想说他是一个女人而非运动机器 我想替一个漂亮女人出艺术照而不是一个打球机器" Over the next three years, while Williams, now 27, toured the world, Bolofo tailed her, popping up in London, Istanbul, Paris and New York with photographic suggestions, a small team of helpers and a rack of clothes. He took inspiration from the Jacques Henri Lartigue photographs of junior tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen in 1915: the shot of Williams dancing round the court in a ball dress was one of the first they collaborated on. “Lartigue captured that sense of social class with a spontaneity and energy,” says Bolofo. “That was the foundation of the book.” 接下来的三年 大威现在已经27了 Bolofo跟他到了世界的许多地方 也成为他在服饰方面的协助之一 他的创意来自於1915年 Suzanne Lenglen拍摄的一系列写真 大威穿着一件舞会礼服在球场上跳舞是他们的开始 Bolofo认为当初帮Lenglen拍摄的摄影师拍出了社交生活的自发与活力 并且同样要引作这本摄影集的基础 Then there are the Josephine Baker-inspired shots, taken in Paris when she was playing in the French Open. “I remember seeing clips of Josephine Baker doing the funky chicken sort of dance,” says Bolofo. “The shots of Venus in the beret and with the dumbbells are a modern interpretation of that.” Williams herself sums up the dumbbells shot by saying, “Surreal. I like that a lot.” 而在巴黎的时候则是以Josephine Baker的模式拍照 (反正就是拍照的心得) Sometimes it was just Williams in jeans and a vest, strolling round Paris with Bolofo, doing her own hair and make-up, taking photographs wherever they fancied; other shots were more staged. Williams is an ardent fan of fashion, and the book itself is being launched with a swanky party hosted by Ralph Lauren, which is the official outfitter to Wimbledon and is clearly delighted to support a stylish celebration of a sporting icon. However, she was content to let Bolofo direct her. “I respect him so much. I just couldn’t wait to find out what his next ideas were. It was just easy,” she says of the process. “It was go with the flow, laid back.” During the sessions they would talk about everything – photography, tennis, Africa, children. And is Bolofo a tennis fan? “He is now,” she jokes. 有时大威就只是随便穿件牛仔裤跟Bolofo上街 看见他们喜欢的就拍有些则是刻意取镜 大威本身是时尚爱好者 这本书会由Ralph Lauren举办出版party But Williams finds that away from the camera she no longer enjoys the rigmarole of red-carpet events, such as the recent Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She says she spends most of her time wearing her own clothing line, EleVen (named after a childhood home address), which is brightly coloured sports/casualwear. “Event” dressing is no longer the fun it used to be. “I can hardly sit still long enough for all the hair and make-up,” she says. “There are so many things I have to do that there doesn’t seem to be enough time to get it all done.” 但大威发现自己再也不像之前一样热衷於红地毯了 他现在大部分时间穿他自己设计的EleVen衣服 而那些礼服对他而言不再有趣 "我很难做这麽长时间的化妆.弄头发 我有很多事要做 时间根本不够" As for tennis, she’ll be defending her Wimbledon title this year. “I love playing there. I love winning there,” she says. But is she going to win? She laughs raucously. “That’s always the plan.” 今年他将尝试卫冕温网 "我喜欢在那里打球 喜欢在那里赢球"但他会赢吗? 大威说"我一直都是有计画的" -- --

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