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INFO 10th May 2013
INFO 10th May 2013
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #7: RINKO KAWAUCHI “Rinko Kawauchi’s photographs celebrate the tiny gestures and unexpected patterns of everyday life. Known for her dreamlike yet unflinching aesthetic, the Tokyo-based artist explores the extraordinary in the mundane, championing the translucent beauty of life’s fleeting moments.” - Aperture RINKOKAWAUCHI.COM INFO ♥ 3 3rd May 2013
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #6: RYAN MCGINLEY FOR THE PARIS REVIEW “I do yoga almost every day. I started doing it because I felt like I needed balance in my life. I was working so much and burning the candle at both ends. I was really struggling, so I started doing yoga, and it definitely helps but I think I’d rather be working. I force myself to do it. There’s a point I usually get to at night–you can work, say, eight hours a day, from noon to 8 PM, and then everyone leaves and then from 8 PM to 2 AM, those next six hours are so much more important than the first eight hours that you worked. It’s when everything manifests and you can get so much done and ideas become so much clearer. I try to do it but I start going crazy if I do it too long, which is why I started exercising.” - RYAN MCGINLEY TO GUS VAN SANT RYAN MCGINLEY INFO ♥ 2 3rd May 2013
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #5: Daido Moriyama Daido Moriyama is a Japanese photographer who’s black and white images are some of the most stunning examples of unique, high contrast, noir lighting in contemporary photography. Born in Osaka in 1938, his career began after moving to Tokyo in hopes of joining the prolific post-war photography group VIVO, only to find that the agency had disbanded. In what’s proven to probably be a better move, he took up with the experimental photographer and filmmaker Eikoh Hosoe who’s philosophical influence can be seen in much of Moriyama’s work. DAIDO MORIYAMA PHOTO FOUNDATION INFO 20th August 2012
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #4 Mona Kuhn is a Los Angeles based, Brazilian-born photographer who spends summers in the idyllic, sun-drenched French countryside. Her stunning, candid monograph, Evidence, is a result of her time there. Interested in redefining the way we look at the body, her subjects are nude, but never naked. The intimate photographs of both young and old “are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images which balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination.” monakuhn.com INFO ♥ 6 28th June 2012
-ADWEEK Wes Anderson Brings His Trademark Visual Style To Zany Spots for the 2012 Hyundai Azera “… In “Talk to My Car,” the nostalgia-happy Anderson hypes the 2012 Azera’s “bluelink” technology via a pastiche of pop culture’s most famous voice-responsive vehicles (there’s a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-esque flying contraption, an underwater car straight out of The Spy Who Loved Me, and a take on Knight Rider’s KITT) plus a heavy bit of personal touch (there’s enough corny visual effects and obsessive symmetry to make your head explode). Bluelink doesn’t actually allow your car to shoot through space, but it does let you make a dinner reservation by simply asking.” CONTINUED INFO 20th April 2012
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #3 Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, internationally renowned for his portraiture and landscapes. Yangtze - The Long River, his most recent monograph, shows “humans dwarfed by their surroundings.” Kander describes the work by saying “common man has little say in China’s progression and this smallness is alluded  to in the work.” This series has the feel of a film set - more cinematography than photography - as if Kander has unknowingly captured a mise-en-scène, some wrongly cut dramatic moment, unfolding on the river banks. nadavkander.com INFO 20th April 2012
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #2 Brea Souders is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. ‘Suburn in Naples’, commissioned by Dear Dave, Magazine is from a series addressing, in her words, her “identity as an American with very mixed European ancestry.” One of her personal projects, titled ‘Islands and Streams’ was born out of the dream journals of well-known figures (ie. Marquis de Sade and the Victorian sexologist, Havelock Ellis. Frustrated by the passiveness of reading a novel or listening to a beautiful song, Brea recreates specific parts of the dream in her studio in order to interact with something she loves, admires or finds interesting. -from an interview with Brea on TPP breasouders.com INFO ♥ 3 3rd February 2012
-VISUAL RESEARCH, EDITION #1 Catalina Bartolomé is a contemporary Argentinian photographer who creates images that depict people in odd and unusual poses or circumstances. Her images are strangely alluring for their surreal scenes. Many feature women posing with their face obfuscated by objects, clothing or hair.  INFO ♥ 15 26th January 2012
-HERE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES “It was about trying to describe the landscape through these hotels and to try and make a comparison between the essence of moving yourself between places, the joy it brings and the mystery that comes with it,” explained director, Luca Guadagnino. INFO ♥ 4 26th January 2012
-HERE The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, a glittering ensemble of over 75 hotels and resorts in more than 35 countries, has reunited Waris Ahluwalia with Luca Guadagnino, the director of their Golden Globe-nominated film, I Am Love to create a cinematic experience that offers a glimpse into the hidden treasures of some of America’s favorite destinations. The short film stars Agyness Deyn with music by Jason Schwartzman and Woody Jackson, and was shot at three of The Luxury Collection’s most iconic properties across the United States, aiming to inspire global travelers to explore and discover destinations in a unique and authentic way. As an impassioned traveler and The Luxury Collection’s newest Global Explorer, Ahluwalia, conceived the project with Luca Guadagnino, Sandro Kopp and Tilda Swinton, who gratefully acknowledged The Luxury Collection’s philanthropic contribution towards the foundation of a new school for the inspired education of teenagers in the Scottish Highlands. The brand’s mantra, “Life Is A Collection of Experiences. Let Us Be Your Guide,” led the creative direction for the team to explore the unexpected joys of a cross-country journey. From the stately Equinox in Vermont, to the sun-soaked beauty of the Phoenician in Arizona, and across the Pacific to the legendary Royal Hawaiian, Agyness Deyn is the muse styled by costume designer Heidi Bivens with hair and makeup by Nico Guillis. The short film is produced by Waris Ahluwalia and Lucy Cooper through New York production house ALLDAYEVERYDAY. INFO 26th January 2012
-Rolling Stone Duck Sauce “Big Bad Wolf” “Big Bad Wolf” “is pretty simple, and it can mean anything, really, so we wanted the video to have its own narrative,” says A-Trak, one-half of the dance duo Duck Sauce, along with DJ Armand Van Helden. “Remember when dance music videos used to actually be creative? Like when you think back to Aphex Twin, Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk… I don’t know why the genre’s videos became so generic in recent years.“When Keith [Schofield] came up with this idea of ‘crotchfaces,’ we just thought it was hilarious,” A-Trak continues. “He started coming up with all these gags and describing the characters living in this sort of parallel world, and we were sold. He wasn’t sure if we’d be down to play the leads, but our take on this was, if we’re going to do this, we need to go all the way. So we played the dickheads, essentially.” KEITH SCHOFIELD SOMESUCH & CO. CAVIAR INFO ♥ 11 24th October 2011
-AnOther Mag Behind the Pages - Everybody Street, Cheryl Dunn It is a rare thing that the development of an art form is without argument attributed to the genius, drive and inspiration of a single figure, but it is an established fact in the case of photography in America. Alfred Steiglitz’s long life bore witness to seismic changes in the world, and his work and passion within the field ensured that developments in photography were similarly revolutionary. His endeavors saw the medium freed from the frozen and stylised portraits of the late 19th century and the ground laid for the vibrant, anarchic, freewheeling snapshots that characterise American street photography today. A truly breathtaking legacy, and one worthy of commemoration. MORE INFO 20th October 2011
-Kickstarter “Hello photographers, photography enthusiasts, lovers of history and New York City. My name is Cheryl Dunn and I am a fellow photographer and the director of Everybody Street, a feature documentary about NYC street photographers who have taken some of the most iconic images of the last century. Whether you take pictures with your phone or a Leica, you will relish the opportunity to hear the real stories of the men and women who are the very foundation of the street photography movement and of the medium itself.”  - Cheryl Dunn These include, to date: Bruce Davidson, Joel Meyerowitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Max Kozloff, Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Jamal Shabazz, Bruce Gilden, Clayton Patterson, Jeff Mermelstein, Rebecca Lepkoff, Boogie, Luc Sante, Jill Freedman and Josh Wildman MORE SUPPORT THE COMPLETION OF THE FINAL PHASE OF THIS IMPORTANT FILM BY HELPING TO FUND CHERYL’S KICKSTARTER PROJECT INFO 19th October 2011
 

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