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An exhibition of work by Ed van der Elsken, known as the "enfant terrible" of Dutch photography, will be on view at New York's Howard Greenberg Gallery from today until 5 May. "Love" & Other Stories will focus on the celebrated street photographer’s work from the 1950s and '60s documenting the social culture around him in Amsterdam, Paris, and Tokyo.

With a confident, gritty, and unconventional style, van der Elsken’s confrontational portraits of young love, alienation, and counterculture bohemian life paved the way for late 20th century photographers such as Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Wolfgang Tillmans. He is best known for his iconic photography book, Love on the Left Bank, 1954, acclaimed for expanding the boundaries of documentary photography. His work was most recently seen last year in a retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which travelled to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid.

Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was "a man who would have liked to have transplanted a camera into his head to permanently record the world around him," noted Beatrix Ruf, the director of the Stedelijk Museum and Marta Gili, the director of the Jeu de Paume wrote in his retrospective exhibition catalogue.

"He was always looking for what he called ‘my kind of people,’" said Hripsime Visser, the curator of the exhibition at the Stedelijk. "And what he meant by that was not the beautiful people and not the famous people but the people who tried to live or to survive."

Using only black ink, Malaysian illustrator Kamwei Fong has created a menagerie of playful black cats. Despite their contextual isolation and uniform style, each of Fong’s cats display unique personalities: some are fluffed and puffed into self-contained balls; others look with curiosity or wariness at fish that dangle or waves that crash from the animals’ own tails. The artist builds each feline form using innumerable short thin lines, varying the density of the marks to create volume as well as a palpable sense of furriness.

Fong has been working as an illustrator since 2010, under the moniker Bo & Friends, and in addition to his cat character, which he calls The Furry Thing, he dreams up similarly charming monkeys, goldfish, puppies, and other animals in his line-driven black ink drawings. Fong sells signed print editions of his animal illustrations in his Etsy shop, and also partners with Galerie Club Sensible in Paris. You can see more of his work on Instagram and Facebook.

In a new exhibition at London's Somerset House, the independent magazine scene in Britain is celebrated through its voices that challenge the mainstream.

From 8 June - 22 August 2018, Print! Tearing It Up will be the first exhibition to trace the journey of independent voices in magazines and journals from their roots in the early 20th century, to today's contemporary titles.

Contrary to the idea that print is a dying trade, the show aims to illustrate that these freethinking publications reflect a wider independent culture while proving that print is going from strength to strength in the digital era.

Curated by writer Paul Gorman (The Story of The Face, In Their Own Write: Adventures In The Music Press) and Somerset House’s Senior Curator Claire Catterall with graphic design by Scott King, the exhibition will feature titles including the likes of Private Eye, Crash!, Mushpit, Spare Rib, Ladybeard, gal-dem, Thiiird, Burnt Roti, The Face, Real Review, Friends/Frendz, i-D, Dazed and many more.

Sharan Dhaliwal, editor-in-chief of Burnt Roti, said: "Print publishing means that we're not posting articles which are lost in the ether of the internet. We're shoving our faces in everyone else's and saying: 'we exist."

Print! Tearing It Up: Independent British magazines changing the world kicks off at Somerset House on 8 June 2018. For more information visit www.somersethouse.org.uk.

The newly published book Minima Muralia condenses more than 200 larger-than-life murals painted by Blu (previously) into one 288-page collection. The compendium covers every piece made by the Italian street artist over the last 15 years, including backstage shots and unreleased works pulled from his archive. A special edition of the book has also been released, featuring a 32-page zine, two posters, and a specially-designed book casing. You can order both releases on Zooo Print & Press.

In addition to putting out this recent compilation of his works, Blu has also painted a new mural in the town of La Punta, just outside of Valencia, Spain. The piece was created as a part of the Sensemurs Project, a group of muralists attempting to raise awareness about the preservation of peri-urban orchards in towns affected by rapid urbanization across Europe. You can see this new mural, along with work by Borondo and Daniel Munoz SAN, over on Juxtapoz.

Belfast-based sound and multimedia artist Una Lee pursues alternative ways of storytelling. She sings, narrates, collects field recordings and makes things, as well as composing and designing her own live and/or fixed performances and intervention scenarios.

Many of her works, whilst being primarily sound-based, incorporate interdisciplinary aspects that blend performance art, visual art and theatre practice.

Most recently, for her OĀZE project, Una has created a sound map of an imaginary island. She explains: "Unlike most sound maps that employ Google Maps or similar, this one uses digitally illustrated original map and aerial views of places such as market, harbour, villages and landscapes, initially based on real places.

"As sound maps do, it also features field recordings which are accompanied by voice narrations that tell fragmented stories about a woman who was born and raised, and has lived her entire life on this fictional island."

The work blends digital illustration, fictional storytelling, sound art and creative technology into one. For more details visit optophono.com/oaze.

L’artiste français Olivier Gamblin a créé des mash-ups amusants dans sa série Mixologist. Jouant avec des titres de films et assemblant des personnages improbables sur les affiches, Gamblin nous fait imaginer des films où ET rencontre Gravity et Natalie Portman joue avec Will Smith dans Men in Black Swan. Voir le reste sur son site.

Born and raised in Brooklyn and now living in Manhattan, Jeff Rothstein is a quintessential New York photographer who has tirelessly chronicled the evolving city's life on the streets. To celebrate four decades of his work, a new book, Today's Special, has been published, featuring photos of people going about their lives – some famous, most anonymous – as well as a cityscape of littered sidewalks and dilapidated buildings set against modern skyscrapers.

The shots were taken between 1969 and 2006. "'Reading' the photos in Today's Special, I sense an almost fictional account assembled after the actual times when these photographs were shot," writes art critic Robert C. Morgan in his essay in the photobook. "But the story these photographs tell is imposed on a powerful history, beginning with the escalation of the Vietnam War and concluding with the tragic aftermath of the Iraqi invasion.

"None of this we see directly, only perhaps glimpsing in the faces and gestures of his subjects. They tell a more authentic story at any given time as they move from their solitary living spaces into the public space of crowded anonymity – the streets of New York."

Speaking of his work, Jeff says: "Wandering the streets with my 35mm cameras loaded with b&w film, I consider myself an urban observer. I try to capture the city's environment – structures, signs and, most of all, the fleeting moments of people on the streets that will soon disappear into thin air."

Today's Special: New York City Images 1969-2006 is available via jeffrothsteinphotos.com. All images courtesy of Jeff Rothstein.

Butcher Billy, un illustrateur basé au Brésil, a créé des couvertures de bandes dessinées fictives pour les six episodes de la 4ème saison de Black Mirror. Utilisant de charmants graphismes retro et de la typographie, il capture l’esthétique des bandes dessinées américaines des années 50, un régal pour les fans de série et les collectionneurs de bandes dessinées. Suivez le sur Behance et Instagram.

Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer is known mostly as an accomplished mathematician and physicist from Norway, but as a side hobby he was also an amateur photographer, taking to the streets of Oslo with a bulky camera secreted in his clothing to capture candid moments of unsuspecting passersby. Most of his photos were taken in the 1890s while Størmer was a 19-year-old student at the Royal Frederick University using a Stirn Concealed Vest Spy Camera, a secretive camera with a narrow lens designed to poke through a vest pocket’s buttonhole.

Størmer’s photography stands in stark contrast to portraiture of the era that consisted mainly of staid and unsmiling images against decorative backdrops. Here we see a rare view of people going about their daily lives nearly 125 years ago, often smiling and perhaps caught off guard from the young student angling for the shot. To see more of Størmer’s work head over to Norwegian Folkmuseum. (via Bored Panda)

En 1981, le photographe allemand Harf Zimmermann emménageait dans la Hufelandstrasse, rue pavée dans l’ouest de Berlin. Rapidement, il s’est rendu compte d’où il avait mis les pieds,  ses voisins étant plus atypiques les uns que les autres, oasis d’originalité dans une ville morose assiégée par les Soviétiques. Malheureusement, en 1987, le sol a a été empoisonné par les fuites de gaz et le lieu changé à jamais. En guise de témoin final, Zimmermann et son appareil photo, qui a immortalisé cette époque unique.

POP, le livre du photographe Brian Griffin, est une ode aux grands noms de la musique qui sont apparus au milieu des années 70 jusqu’à la fin des années 80. Immortalisant les stars comme Iggy Pop, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello et Echo and the Bunnymen, les portraits de Griffin révèlent les personnages de chaque artiste, ainsi que l’ambiance intensément creative et excitante de cette période. Le livre POP est publié par GOST Books, disponible ici.

Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers at The Photographers' Gallery will reveal a rare selection of discovered, largely anonymous, photographs of men and women posing for the camera, using the apparel and gestures traditionally assigned to the ‘opposite sex’.

Drawn from the extensive personal archives of filmmaker and photography collector Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition of amateur photographs from Europe and the US explores the surprisingly widespread practice of cross-dressing, through a century of private images. Dating from 1880 onwards, the photos are mostly of unnamed and unknown figures – the majority having been collected from flea markets, garage sales, junk shops and eBay, amongst other non-specialist spaces – and offer a candid view into the hidden worlds of individuals and groups that chose to defy gender conventions.

Lifshitz’s initial collecting impulse was a fascination with the vernacular documentation of cross-dressing; his criteria to accumulate photographs, which showed men dressing as women and vice versa. As the collection grew, he began to trace both commonalities and differences between the images, which proposed a much more nuanced exploration of cross-dressing culture.

The exhibition also includes unique images of Marie-Pierre Pruvot (born Jean-Pierre Pruvot, 11 November 1935) the renowned Algerian-born French transsexual woman who performed under the stage name Bambi, and who was the subject of an award-winning documentary by Lifshitz in 2013.

Brought together, the photographs reflect a range of styles and attitudes from theatrical, defiant, shy, proud, subversive and understated; showing individuals and groups from different classes, professions, genders and nationalities, whose commonality is that they dared to play with dress codes in front of a camera, even if unable to do so in public. They celebrate the collective inventiveness and freedom that the seemingly simple act of dressing differently provides. The exhibition offers a fascinating precedent to today’s diverse Queer and trans spectrum and pre-empts a world where such self-expression is celebrated.

Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers opens 23 Feb 2018 at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Pour ce photoshoot, le photographe Piotr Chrobot, basé à Dubai, se laisse inspirer par le film emblématique de Wong Kar Wai, « In the Mood for Love ». Il explore la beauté mélancolique de l’esthétique du réalisateur dans une collection d’images romantiques et langoureuses. Riche d’émotion, ce travaux présente un beau récit visuel d’amour et de tristesse. Voir plus de son travail ici, et le suivre sur Instagram.
Model: Dada

Prince n’a pas toujours été une star planétaire. En 1977, par exemple, sa discographie ne contenait qu’une démo du morceau Soft & Wet. Suffisant pour le photographe Robert Whitman, qui s’est empressé de photographier ce jeune artiste en qui il avait su déceler le génie avant tout le monde. 40 ans plus tard, Whitman livre ses photos au magazine i-D.

The vibrant street life and people of New York City's Lower East Side and Upper West Side in the 1950s and 1960s are presented in this fascinating series and new book of black-and-white photographs by Jonathan Brand.

A census taker, and later an advertising copywriter, Brand chronicled life as he encountered it on his walks through the city. The book offers over 100 striking images of New Yorkers engaged in everyday pursuits, from the Bowery to Riverside Park, juice stands and barbershops to the theatre in the streets.

With an introduction by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, this is the first book from a photographer who developed his art alongside many of the best-known in his discipline. Brand's photographs capture the energy, odd juxtapositions, and intimate moments of life in mid-century New York City.

Jonathan Brand has been photographing daily life since 1956. A native New Yorker and Vermonter, he has also lived and worked in Scandinavia and Portland, Oregon. He developed his photography through study with some of the most accomplished photographers of his day: Richard Avedon, Garry Winogrand, David Vestal, and Bruce Davidson. An acute observer of street life as well as everyday family rhythms, Brand has captured public and private moments in arresting images.

From Lower East and Upper West by Jonathan Brand is published by powerHouse Books.

For anyone who has ever dreamt of running away with the circus or simply wondered what life is like for the jugglers, clowns, and acrobats, a new exhibition at The Harley Gallery in Worksop by acclaimed photographer Peter Lavery captures what goes on behind the scenes at the Big Top.

Lavery has spent the last 50 years following and photographing circuses the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland. His show, Circus Work, is the first to document this five-decade-long project. Taken in both black and white and colour these intimately detailed, large-scale photographs show circus performers relaxing while off duty, practising, getting ready to perform, part made-up and costumed, and revealingly off-guard.

Lisa Gee, Director at The Harley Gallery, said: “Peter Lavery’s pictures capture a world unknown to most of us. He takes us behind the curtain to see the grit amidst the glamour, the contrast between the mundane and the magical and reveals the hard work and humanity of this unique community.”

The son of a miner, Lavery has developed an enduring interest and passion for his subject since dropping in on a small indoor circus in his hometown of Wakefield in 1968: "I was immediately struck by the disparity between the outward exoticism, the finery, the sequined costumes, the plumes, the elaborate display and backstage ordinariness. At once I was enthralled by the sounds and the smell, but I had no idea the subject would capture and hold my imagination for the best part of five decades."

Circus Work is part of Circus250, a UK-wide celebration of 250 years of the circus. In 1768, on an abandoned patch of land near London’s Waterloo, showman, entrepreneur and equestrian rider Philip Astley did something entirely new. He gathered together a series of physical acts composed of jugglers, acrobats, clowns, strong men and bareback riders and drew out the very first circus ring. Astley had created a whole new art form – this was the world’s first circus; every circus, anywhere, began at this moment.

Circus Work is showing at The Harley Gallery on the Welbeck estate, between Nottingham and Sheffield, from 3 February until 15 April 2018.

Le jeune artiste Parisien Louis Stimes brouille les lignes entre typographie, photographie et design dans ses oeuvres, dessinées à l’encre de chine sur des photographies de mode. Avec son style unique et son identité forte, il crée des visuels percutants sur les courbes, rendant chaque traits plus appuyé, chaque mot plus élancé. Spontané, inattendu et toujours très créatif, Louis redéfinis l’interprétation de la mode, en la sortant des pages de magazines pour en faire un support vivant, et vibrant. Son travail et ses collaborations sont à suivre sur Instagram.

 

 

L’artiste Argentin Federico Bianchi, basé à Miami, a réalisé une superbe série appelée « Body Mandala », qui met en scène des corps et parties du corps dans des visuels complexes, inspirés des mandalas. A partir de photos qu’il prend avec soin, il compose ses créations de manière digitale, jusqu’à obtenir le résultat souhaité. Une très belle réinterprétation des courbes naturelles du corps humain. Retrouvez son travail sur Instagram

Another batch of found photos, colourfully embroidered by artist Julie Cockburn. Click here for previous post. See more images below.

 

Elina Ulvio is back with a series of reversible pendant lights that were inspired by the moon. Kuu, which is Finnish for ‘moon’, are designed to provide direct and indirect light by simply rotating the pendant’s inner circle. Thanks to its wireless connection, the light can rotate endlessly within its oval enclosure.

The lamp can rotate throughout the day as the light changes with passing time and it can go from direct to indirect depending on your needs. Not only does the light change, the fixture’s appearance does too with the round and crescent shapes evolving, much like the moon does.

Kuu will soon be launched by Danish brand Mater.

Photos by Karin Ulvio.

 

I’m always jealous of people that can wear all-white with such confidence and ease.

 

I’d always be checking if I spilled something or sat in something.

 

Maybe the smart way ,for me, to wear all-white is to wear it for short, specific events (with very little food served) like maybe an exhibit opening or ballet performance.

Named after a coffee region between Bogotá and Medellin, Samaná is a collaborative project between Mexican designer José Bermúdez and Columbian designers Vrokka and Fango Studio that beautifies the ritual of making coffee.

There are two parts to the project. First, the Samaná container made from solid ash wood houses all the coffeewares in the collection and is inspired by the shape of the wooden boxes used by coffee growers. The height of the container is a nod to Mexican cantinas where people meet to drink and chat; the same idea can be applied to this container while making coffee. A leather tab opens the container up to the coffeewares which can be placed on the container’s steel top.

The second part of the project are the Samaná coffeewares. These coffee accessories are made from ceramic and solid oak wood and use the drip method to brew coffee, creating a more intimate bond between the user and the coffee ritual.

What’s the best gift for a coffee-drinking perfectionist? This Multi-ccino Mug, that’s what. The borosilicate glass mug has indicators printed on the outside for customizing proportions of espresso, milk, and water for the perfect brew. Do take note it’s currently on backorder (boooo) so don’t count on it for this holiday’s gift-giving exchange.

Have you heard about the @accidentallywesanderson Instagram account, featuring photographs of real-life places that manage to encapsulate the peculiarly specific aesthetic that filmmaker Wes Anderson has claimed as his own, in movies like The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, or The Life Aquatic.  The site founder, Wally Koval, explains that a common thread connects all the images featured: “Each photo must have a symmetrical composition, a typically pastel color palette, and a touch of nostalgia”.

I came across the account while in Jaipur with Ace Camps, and it changed my whole photographic approach to the Pink City. Usually I spend time noticing closeup details of shadows and colour juxtapositions, and suddenly my eye became more tuned to see bigger pictures and symmetrical scapes.

I’m not sure that any of my photos would be picked to be featured on @acccidentallywesanderson, but here they are for your consideration and pleasure:

 

 

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As you may have already noticed, I’m a big fan of the stars, the moon, mysteries of outer space, AND shades of blue. Of course this exclusive Le Creuset dream collection featuring a blackened blue and swirling stars would have to be released right after I finally purchased my first dutch oven. OF COURSE. The cute dutch oven with stars is only available in the 4.5 quart size and it’s not in the budget right now, unfortunately. I’ll just keep ogling it while I consider one of the other pieces in the black blue Cosmos hue, like that glorious Cosmos 9qt Round Dutch Oven. There are some sweet ceramic pieces, like the Cosmos French Press and Cosmos Mugs, that are mighty tempting as well. More HERE.

Cosmos 4 Quart Casserole | 2.25 Quart Saucepan | 4.5 Quart Round Oven with Stars | 3.5 Quart Braiser | 6.75 Quart Oval Oven | 5 Quart Oval Oven

Cosmos 4.5 Quart Round Oven with Stars | 5.5 Quart Round Oven | 7.25 Quart Round Oven | 9 Quart Round Oven | 10.25″ Skillet

Cosmos 2.25 Quart Saucepan | Cosmos French Press | 12-Ounce Mug | 4.5 Quart Round Oven with Stars | 9″ Square Baking Dish | 12″x 9″ Rectangular Dish

Photographer Maria Svarbova is fascinated by the sterile, geometric aesthetic of old swimming pools, especially those built during the Socialist Era in her native country of Slovakia. Each scene she photographs is highly controlled, from the subjects of her works to the bright colors and dramatic shadows that compose each shot.

“The figures are mid-movement, but there is no joyful playfulness to them,” says Sarbova’s artist statement about the project. “Frozen in the composition, the swimmers are as smooth and cold as the pools tiles…Despite the retro setting, the pictures somehow evoke a futuristic feeling as well, as if they were taken somewhere completely alien.”

The series, In the Swimming Pool, began in 2014 and is her largest to date. Recently she published a book on the project through The New Heroes and Pioneers aptly titled The Swimming Pool Book which you can pre-order on Amazon. To see more of her photographs centered around Eastern European pools, head to her Instagram or Behance. (via Visual Fodder)

New Jersey-based “object arranger” Adam Hillman has really stepped up his organization efforts the last few months, pushing his precisely organized patterns of everyday objects into increasingly more complicated designs. Everything from breakfast cereal to office supplies finds its place in these tightly controlled symmetrical layouts that take hours to measure, cut, and arrange. Hillman now shares some of his best work as prints and you can follow him on Instagram.

Taiwanese artist Yen Jui-Lin carves delightful cartoon-like figures from wood that are almost guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. Some of the pieces function as flower vases or key hooks, while many of the objects are one-off toys that he gives to his children as gifts. You can see many more on Jui-Lin’s Facebook page. (via Lustik)

Artist Pony Reinhardt of Portland-based Tenderfoot Studio (previously) produces wildly creative tattoos which she describes as a “cosmic cataclysm of the Ghastly Phantastic.” Images of the natural world mingle with stars and elements of sacred geometry in a style reminiscent of old etchings and woodblock prints. Reinhardt has also exhibited fine art at the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art and is a US Presidential Scholar of the Arts. You can follow her recent work on Instagram.

Creative agency DBLG has collaborated with Animade on Hey Pressto an experimental stop-motion animation using the naked human body as its canvas. Created for DBLG’s tenth anniversary, the team first came up with the idea of using 3D printing to create a stamp that could be pushed into skin and leave an imprint. “Initially the stamp was typographically based but after some experimentation we felt it didn’t have a tone of voice or playfulness that resonated with us so we started to explore other avenues,” explains Grant Gilbert, founder and creative director at DBLG. “That’s when we got in touch with Animade. We’d been fans of Animade for a long time and always loved how their animations convey a huge amount of character in such a simple and universal way. Animade were absolutely perfect collaborators for this project and we were really excited with the idea to make an animation that crossed into a physical world.”

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