Special Holiday 

Whether you are camping in France, visiting the Acropolis in Athens, or bobbing on one of the Frisian lakes, it will be evident that holidays and other leisure activities are making their mark on the landscape. Is this a positive or negative development? The book Greetings from Europe investigates this issue by means of observations, analyses, strategies, photos, maps, statistics, and also a DVD.

Edited by Annika van Dijk, Niek Hazendonk, Mark Hendriks, Hans Venema, contributions by Dirk Sijmons and others
Designed by Johannes Niemeijer

http://www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=650 

English
194 pp / 240 x 160 mm / hardcover with dvd

Puma has a site called “Silent Gesture” honoring Tommie Smith, PUMA will pay tribute to African-American athlete with the release of these Suede Jo’s. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Smith won the 200m race in record time whilst his team mate, John Carlos, took bronze. They both ascended the awards podium shoeless to symbolize black poverty. When the national anthem played, they proceeded to bow their heads and raise their black-gloved fists - a sign of the Black Power Movement.

Deyrolle, a historic naturalist boutique in the heart of St. Germain, was ravaged by a fire earlier the 1st February. to help out the shop, Hermes designed this scarf called plumes, sales of which will be donated to help out the reconstruction of the historic building and the building up its former collection of naturalist objects [taxidermied animals, butterflies in frames, and loads of other special things.] for sale (265 euros) via deyrolle.com.

New Fanzine137 by Luis Venegas, “Ladies & Gentlemen, Volume 1″. is made of ten long portfolios on exceptional personalities such as model Carmen Dell’Orefice, stylist Joe McKenna, artist Alex Katz, writer Bob Colacello, photographer Lillian Bassman… as well as a special tribute to Barbara Streisand seen by the biggest names in photography.

Fanzine137

Photographs 1946 - 2004 from 07 01 2008 until 09 28 2008 Musée du jeu de Paume in Paris

Twiggy, coiffure de Ara Gallant- studio de Paris, janvier 1968 - Photographie Richard Avedon - © 2008 the Richard Avedon Foundation

Organised by the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek with the cooperation of the Richard Avedon Foundation, this exhibition surveys the whole of Richard Avedon’s career, starting with his first steps as a fashion photographer at the end of the Second World War.
Avedon continued to photograph the creations of the big Parisian couture houses up until 1984, working first for Harper’s Bazaar and then for Vogue. Finding fashion photography too static and stuffy, he transformed it by introducing movement and photographing his models in public spaces.
He also made many portraits of celebrities from the worlds of literature, art and show business, always taking care to shatter the icon in order to reveal the true personality behind the public image.

In the 1960s, Avedon also ventured into photojournalism, covering such hot subjects as Civil Rights campaigners in the American South (1963), the Ku Klux Klan, patients in a mental hospital and the Vietnam war — both in the country itself, where he photographed military officers and napalm victims, and back home, where, a pacifist himself, he covered the hippie protests against the war.

In 1974 Avedon exhibited a series of his father, then dying of cancer, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During this decade he continued his fashion photography and reportage, and also produced a series of 73 portraits of America’s political elite for Rolling Stone.

The early 1980s saw Avedon produce a long series of 700 portraits of middle class and poor Americans from the 17 western states. As if to refute the myth of the American West, these portraits, all taken outdoors against a white ground, show closed, tense and introverted faces with an intense but subjacent emotional power. At the end of the decade, a commission from the French magazine Égoïste gave Avedon the chance to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall.

New work by the artist and illustrator will go on show at the Cerasoli Gallery, Los Angeles from 14 June. The artist’s solo exhibition, titled ‘Lost Art Of Murder’ will be open at the American galley until 5 July. Those of us that are more European based, will however be pleased to note that Mario’s collages will also be on show at the Galerie Feinkunst, Hamburg until 28.06.2008.

www.mario-wagner.com.

*Mario Wagner - Lost Art Of Murder
14.06. - 05.07.2008*
Cerasoli Gallery
8530 B Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
www.cerasoligallery.com

*Mario Wagner - Nur zu Besuch*
*07.06. - 28.06.2008 *
Galerie Feinkunst Krüger
Ditmar-Koel-Str. 22, 20459 Hamburg, Germany
www.feinkunst-krueger.de

In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those of the architecture on screen. Spaces of confinement also turn up in the ’Gothic plot’ of films in which the house is presented as an uncanny labyrinth and a trap. Furthermore, it became a Hitchcock hallmark to use famous monuments as the location for a climactic scene. Last but not least, Hitchcock used architectural motifs such as stairs and windows, which are closely connected to Hitchcockian narrative structures (suspense) or typical Hitchcock themes (voyeurism). Apart from dealing with these issues extensively, Steven Jacobs discusses at length a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans especially made for this publication.

Steven Jacobs is an art historian who has published widely on the photographic and cinematic representations of architecture, cities, and landscapes. He currently lectures on film history at Sint Lukas College of Art Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and on urban studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Jonas Samson created a high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it’s possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.
As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.

Year: 2007
Material: Light emitting wallpaper
Size: 240 cm x 360 cm

www.jonassamson.com/

Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and Painting at St. Martins School of Art.

He started photographing in December 2000 in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style. He no longer directs, devoting himself full time to his fine art photography now.

Brandt’s first book of photographs, “On This Earth”, was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books, with forewords by Jane Goodall and Alice Sebold (author of “The Lovely Bones”).

He has had numerous one-man exhibitions between 2004 and 2006, including London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Santa Fe, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco. He now lives in Topanga, California….

check all the picture on www.younggalleryphoto.com

Some of you might have heard about or seen the new makeup line by Thierry Mugler. France-based Thierry Mugler Parfums has signed a licensing agreement with crystal specialist Swarovski to create a beauty line - a move that aims to bring about premium positioning through the incorporation of quality packaging.

Known as Swarovski Beauty, the line will include fragrances, make-up and a beauty accessories collection that will incorporate the fragrance, cosmetic and packaging design capabilities of Clarins-owned Thierry Mugler with the precision-cut crystal expertise that Austrian-based Swarovski is renowned for.

With a launch date planned for 2010, the two companies will work together to develop the high-end beauty products that will incorporate Swarovski’s crystal expertise into the packaging design.

www.thierrymugler.com