The exhibition is a mix of family images, painterly landscapes and some of Billingham’s zoo images. It was a real mix with lots of different formats and black and white with colour. The cows were brilliant.
I took this about a few weeks ago on a freezing sunday. Swimmers in Brighton go in all year round and always amaze me. This girl caught my eye she walked in so slowly and gracefully without a peep.
GENTLEBLACKS.COM A really simple and ellusive website of a nameless photographer. The images are all quite different in style but link and flow together really well. (also features a portrait of Tom, a friend of mine who looks decidedly like a male dancer from San Francisco?!)
Vivienne Westwood showed a homeless-inspired menswear collection and Westwood’s explanation about just how she totally, like, vibes on homelessness (“The nearest I have come to it is going home and finding I don’t have my door key. I mean, what a disaster that is, dying to get in your house and you can’t. And what if it wasn’t there any more?”) bears more than a smack of similarity with that of Mugatu on the same subject: “Homelessness is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.” Oliver Stone, where are you when you’re finally needed?
Read more here……
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/27/truth-about-zoolander-hadley-freeman
Check it…
Jacqueline McCullough-So Much Past
As the child of a foster parent, my life has been shaped and informed by an ever-changing family unit. This experience lies at the heart of my work.This series explores various viewpoints of the care system.
The blackboard, layered with the remnants of others experiences, acts as a metaphor for the transient nature of the care system where a past can be wiped away, yet scratches and traces still remain.
a cliche
“For something to be a cliché it has to have been true once. A cliché is like a pencil that once had a point and its point has been blunted by use to the extent to which it is no longer a useful writing instrument. But if it once was useful, then there is some possibility that you can recover it by placement of it in some odd position. That is, you can retrieve its meaning capabilities in some way.”
David Antin
David Shrigley
This image is by Richard Marsden… just checking out his new website which has got some real good new images on.
The ikea video in’ events seen squarely’ is genius…
http://web.me.com/marsdenphotography/marsdenphotgraphy/Movie.html
Some really good quirky portraits and excellently executed stuff.
This is from the series Lost and Found… I came across his work on www.Mullitover.cc created by Mr Jon Cherry who coincidently started my blog.. thanks Chez… he is also the foreman of the long awaited photographic group the The Ship Shape Collective.. so watch this space
