Thumbling Twice, Edland Man Fashion Playing-Cards


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In 1990, John Pasche, creative director at Chrysalis Records in london, asked me to do the cover image of Adeva’s new song “Love or Lust”. As a trick to show both sides, Love- and Lust, in one image, we'd made Adeva look like the Queen in a playing – card. I "played" this cd cover card as my Joker in my photography portfolio presentations since.

In 1991, Marina Fausti, in those years editor in chief of MODA magazine in Italy, picked up my Joker, and used it as a matching card to plan a fashion shoot as playing-card images.

For the MODA mag. I shot the Spades and the Hearts. Young and upcomming actor Alessandro Gassman became our Jack of Hearts, and under the fashion models was the beautifull Lynne M. Koester and the mythical supermodel Pat Cleveland in her Moschino Olive act.

The mag. came out, and was very succesfully, and with this hand of cards, I decided to go for The Full House and completed the series with the Diamonds and the Clubs.
The entire deck of King Size Fashion Playing-Cards found a publication, thanks to Dirk van der Spek owner of Focus Publishing Photography in the Netherlands. Author Herman Keppy wrote the intro.


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The Groninger Museum took some of the photos in their art collection, and they were shown in my personal exhibition in the same Museum. The deck of cards were sold worldwide, like in the Guggenheim Museum bookstore in NY.

Playing cards, can be a tricky game! I saw many fashion playing-cards pass the tables since my deck was played.

Some of them were shot by real Poker Faces and were false and mean and played with an almost deadly pique! Others were played fair, with fun and gave a smile. Every now and than, I let the cards thumble twice. Fair enough i think? -->

March 2012, the Italian company BIASIA used one of the images of the origional deck of Cards as the Queen of Hearts for their publicity campaign.

Edland Man

(Jack of Spades)