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THROUGHOUT HIS 40 year career, Sean Scully has become widely recognised as one of the giants of contemporary abstract painting. Twice nominated for the Turner Prize, he was elected a Royal Academician in 2013, his work is in museum collections worldwide, and a retrospective of his paintings opened in Shanghai in November 2014, travelling to Beijing in February 2015. Yet, in recent years, Scully often mentions that his greatest achievement is his son, Oisín, born in 2009, with his wife, the painter Liliane Tomasko. He visibly lights up when speaking about him, and the child’s presence is felt in the studio, with his toys scattered around the paint pots. Their upbringings couldn’t have been more different. Scully was born in Ireland in 1945, his family moved to London when he was five, and he had a very poor childhood. ‘I grew up with nothing. Oisín has everything.’

Beginning his career in London in the late ‘60s, studying at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle University, Scully moved to New York in 1975, making his name in the art world throughout the ‘80s. He now splits his time between New York, Barcelona and the Bavarian countryside, and continues his invigoration of the abstract with the everyday. Recent Landline paintings in the New York studio combine horizontal bands and extraordinary colours that seem to sing and rejoice. Scully often mentions the angel on his shoulder while he is painting. He says that he sings to his son as a way of prayer, as a recharging of the soul. ‘And it’s a way of me showing gratitude for my paintings.’ >> EDITORIAL CONTENTS l 17

THERE IS A fight back by those with a serious appreciation of photography as a fine art. To counter the tsunami of happy snaps currently saturating every possible medium, London has two major events for spring that will redress the balance and demonstrate the yawning gap between a photograph and a great photograph. At least in theory. The photography world has not at all been immune to the fads of fashion and populist gimmickry that so curse the art business. The Sony World Photography Awards – with a special presentation of that outstanding snapper, Elliott Erwitt – will showcase a plethora of the best of the best images from around the globe at Somerset House (24 April – 10 May). This venue is fast establishing itself as the key London location for photography exhibitions and seems able to accommodate both major events and smaller, non-commercial shows. A good example would be the recent Syngenta Photography Award exhibition (until 10 April) that addressed the spoilage of the planet and squandered resources. The 42 photographers from 21 countries DAFYDD JONES GEAR & GIZMOS represented the Scarcity-Waste theme in thought-provoking ways. Also at Adventures out in Art Land We Liked it, So Will You Somerset House will be the latest attempt to establish a prominent photo-fair 8 12 in the capital.

Photo London (21-24 May) aims to create a major international photography fair with around 70 international exhibitors selected from specialist galleries and publishers. Ancillary events will be supported by the LUMA Foundation (a Zurich-based non-profit organisation). The whole gamut of photographic practice from vintage to contemporary will be embraced, including a display of hidden treasures from the V&A’s vast photographic archives. This time, Candlestar, a ‘cultural consultancy’ experienced in the field of photography and the arts, looks to have the best chance of succeeding where previous attempts have failed to capture the imagination of the trade or visitor. Candlestar is also behind the annual Prix Pictet which rewards photography dealing with issues of sustainability. Photo London wants to create the ‘Frieze Effect’ for photography in London, with some of the gloss of Paris Photo. Tate Modern also plans to host a photography book fair as a parallel activity.

BERLIN VINTAGE COVER IMAGE | ISSUE 17 14 A Private Collection TOM BUTLER Geoeb, 2014 Gouache on Albumen print 16.5x10cm © Tom Butler / Courtesy Charlie Smith Gallery, London

TOM BUTLER (b. 1979) took degrees from Southampton University and Chelsea College of Art and a MFA Sculpture at the Slade. His signature works are the expanding series of manipulated Victorian cabinet cards. Asked if there was a limit to these unique editions, Butler says not. ‘I realised they were becoming a population or citizenship and more than just an ongoing series of characters. I started imagining an island (of sorts) where they could exist. Later I read H.G. Wells’ Island of Dr Moreau, where a shipwrecked man is rescued on the shores of a mysterious island populated with beast-men.’ Read more on page 18. ELLIOT ERWITT PRIVATE VIEW 20 Grand Master in London 22 Art in other places

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Lost Daguerreotypes A NEW book (Quaritch) has revealed some 325 daguerreotypes once belonging to Victorian critic John Ruskin, many showing an unspoilt Venice in the 1840s. Spotted by an astute collecting duo, Ken and Jenny Jacobson, at an auction in Cumbria in 2006, bidding against another collector bust the estimate of £80 to a hammer of £75,000. Exhaustive research then connected them to Ruskin and his three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture (1851-53).

Steve McCurry National Geographic cover, June 1985 PRICE OF FAME?

IT IS SAID that every photographer has ‘the picture’ by Pakistani identity card in the city of Peshawar in April which they are forever identified. Steve McCurry has 2014 under the name ‘Sharbat Bibi’. Authorities say she many brilliant images to call upon but his public is clear: managed to dodge Pakistan’s computerised system to APPLE BITES it is his 1984 shot for National Geographic’s June 1985 get an illegal identity card. In the picture on the fake THE ALL ACTIONMAN camera company, GoPro, cover, known as the Afghan Girl. The most recognised CNIC, she is wearing a black hijab that covers her head, saw stock drop 12% following a report that Apple photograph in the history of the magazine, it has even but one can hardly miss those famous, piercing eyes. The had been granted a patent for a mounted digital been dubbed the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa. In National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) camera system, similar to its own devices. The US April 2002, NatGeo finally identified her as Sharbat Gula suspended three men and a woman, officials at its Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple nearly (born c.1972) an Afghan woman then living as a refugee Hayatabad office. The department blocked three fake three dozen patents related to a new camera in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of CNICs issued to Gula (as the wife of one Rahmat Gul) system, dating back to filings from 2012. GoPro Afghanistan. She had never seen her famous portrait and mother of two sons – Rauf Khan and Wali Khan. has always acknowledged that ‘substantially all’ before. NatGeo ran a cover story on her life in its April It turned out that all three were Afghan nationals and its revenue comes from video cameras open to 2002 issue, and she was the subject of a television had faked documentation to get a card to which only competition from any major manufacturer. ‘I think documentary, Search for the Afghan Girl, broadcast in Pakistani nationals are eligible. It is suspected that the that it will have about the same impact on GoPro March that year. Today her face is once again a symbol of ‘sons’ were also not actually related to her. Gula, the as the iPhone has had on camera makers’, noted the hardship faced by Afghani refugees in Pakistan. Afghan Girl, has now gone into hiding. Michael Pachter, a trade analyst with Wedbush According to Pakistani officials, Gula applied for a (source: Indian Express) Securities. (source: Reuters)

BOSS SALE OF REX FEATURES THE NEW YORK stock image provider Shutterstock has bought UK-based picture agency Rex Features. Founded by a husband and wife duo in London (Frank & Elizabeth Selby) in 1954, Rex has offices in London and Los Angeles and partner agencies in more than 40 countries. In a statement, Shutterstock said its ‘technical prowess’ mixed with Rex’s ‘editorial expertise’ would Norman Tebbit pigment print bring a comprehensive offering to The faded and shabby remnants of the market. The purchase price the famous Spitting Image family of approximately £21.8m will be of life-like puppets from James paid mostly in cash. Shutterstock Hyman’s personal collection have founder and chief executive is Jon been photographed as ‘portraits’ by Oringer. Rex’s managing director Anna Fox and Larry Lawson said: ‘We are excited Andrew Bruce. The result is a satisfying and odd mixture about what Rex and Shutterstock can of pathos and bathos. (James accomplish.’ Hyman Gallery 22 April – 8 May) Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer (source: Press Gazette)

6 www.f22magazine.com DRONING ON FROM THE OFF aerial drones were fêted as the latest ‘essential tool’ for news photographers. But these must-have gadgets come at a price. One freelancer has spent over £10,000 in a year using drones – including maintenance and upgrades – with only ‘about 20% of his photography time’ spent using them. In its Future of News report, the BBC mentions the potential of drones to be used for innovative data gathering: ‘As television and online journalists, we are very excited about its scope to change the perspective of our films’. Martin Keene, group picture editor at Press Association, announced the news organisation was also seeking to buy a drone. The small size of drones allows better access proximity than a helicopter or plane at a fraction of the cost.

Flying a drone commercially needs permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as well as mandatory training, with courses starting from £1,260. In addition, a realistic set-up cost would include two professional-quality camera drones at £1,000 each and £1,000 a year for insurance (two machines, as they require continual maintenance and repair). Pilots must pass all exams and have their drone equipment signed off before the CAA is able to process permissions at a cost of £133 for drones Peter Lik on location under 7kg and £226 for drones weighing between 7kg and 20kg – those over 20kg are, in most cases, subject to the same regulation as manned aircraft. Training companies LIK SPLIT charge an annual renewal fee and the CAA charges half the original processing. The CAA says drones must remain 150m from congested events, 50m from a person or THE VALUE of art is a sensitive subject in proofs’, every time any limited edition sells New York following the catastrophic demise another 10%, the price clicks up. When of Knoedler Galleries. So when ebullient 95% of an image has sold it becomes a Australian photographer, Peter Lik, told the Premium Peter Lik and the price jumps New York Times that: ‘I’m the world’s most to $17,500. At 98%, it’s a Second Level famous photographer, most sought-after Premium Peter Lik and leaps to $35,000. photographer, most awarded photographer’, The last handful can go as high as $200,000 the gloves were off. In December, 55-year- and when all copies of a photograph are old Lik’s PR company claimed that an sold, it can gross the company more than anonymous collector had spent $6.5 million $7 million. Lik has allegedly sold more than for Phantom, a single print landscape study 100,000 photographs, all of them custom- [the previous record by Andreas Gursky, printed, mounted and framed, then boxed Rhein II, had fetched $4.3 million in 2011; up in Las Vegas. Last year, the company Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #96 made $3.9 sold $1.6 million worth of photographs million that same year]. every week they told the New York Times. Remote controlled camera drone Peter Lik USA has a 100,000-square-foot ArtNet catalogues public auction results. building, and within the pilot’s line of sight, which is 500m horizontally and 122m HQ in Las Vegas devoted solely to the They note the most anyone has ever paid vertically. Photographers need to bear in mind that standard law and editorial production and sale of his photography for a Lik photograph is $15,860 for Ghost guidelines still apply: It is unacceptable to photograph people in private places without – a fine art factory a few miles from the in 2008 (a colour version of Phantom). their consent. Private places are public or private property where there is a reasonable Strip. He has sold $440 million worth of 15 images have sold between $1,000 and expectation of privacy. (source: Press Gazette) prints, according to his chief financial officer, $2,500; four have sold for $400 to $1,000. through his 15 galleries in the United States ArtBrokerage.com has around 770 Liks (groovy affairs with dark charcoal grey walls for sale, the most of any artist on the site, and piped-in vintage rock music) mostly including 27 copies of Tree of Hope, priced panoramic shots of trees, sky, lakes, deserts from $5,000 to $29,000. Or you can buy and blue water. Most Peter Lik photographs a copy from Lik’s gallery at only $35,000, are printed in a ‘limited edition’ of 995; the where it has achieved Second Level Peter first print sells at about $4,000, with the price Lik Premium status. We are all in the wrong rising as the edition goes on. With 45 ‘artist’s business! (source: New York Times)

NOT QUITE HASSEL FREE IN THE HANDS of astronaut Wally Schirra, aiming to take the first recognisable images of Earth from space, a modified Hasselblad 500c camera with Zeiss lens accompanied the fifth manned US space mission, Mercury-Atlas 8, in 1962. At a single YouTube hit Gangnam Style – two billion views lot sale in RR Auction’s Boston gallery, it sold for THE MYTH OF INTERNET RICHES? $275,000 (£175,985) to WITH MORE than a billion viewers, YouTube is everyone’s favourite video site and a top-tier brand. an unnamed online UK But the online TV website is just ‘roughly breaking even’ nine years after Google bought it for £1.1 bidder – against expert billion. YouTube has a costly infrastructure that wipes out £2.5 billion of its yearly income. Google valuations of $100,000 sites had more than 150 million unique viewers in January 2015. That’s more than double AOL and Yahoo. Analysts note the ‘mass of junk’ on YouTube and the large number of young users who (£62,500). Walter Marty never buy anything from online advertising. Yet statistics make YouTube seem a huge success – Schirra Jr was born in pop hit Gangnam Style has been seen more than two billion times. It is notoriously hard to make Astronaut Wally Schirra and Hasselblad 500C (NASA) 1923 and died seven money from the Internet even when one of the biggest websites in the world. But some do: Netflix years ago. He flew for nine hours in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on 3 October 1962, and was reported a profit of £53 million in just the last quarter of 2014. Google’s key problem is attracting the only person to have flown in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. (Note: the most users direct – most people access it through a link or an embedded video on another site. famous space photograph, Earthrise, was snapped by William Anders during the Apollo 8 (source: AP/Wall Street Journal) mission in 1968.) (source: AP)

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THE FAMOUS Star Trek actor, Leonard Nimoy, died at the age of 83 after being diagnosed with chronic Barbara Hepworth (centre) with fellow students at the RCA. © Bowness/Hepworth Estate. obstructive pulmonary disease due to a 30-year addiction to cigarettes. And the wider world found out that the child of Ukrainian Orthodox Jewish HEPWORTH GALLERY WAKEFIELD immigrants was also a dedicated photographer, TWO MAJOR exhibitions of iconic sculptor Barbara Hepworth open arts patron and art collector (Moses Soyer, April at her namesake museum in Wakefield. The first, A Greater Freedom, Gornik, Thomas Struth and Robert Gober). With Leonard Nimoy from Secret Selves focuses on the last decade of the sculptor’s life from 1965 to 1975, a period his wife Susan Bay Nimoy, the couple donated to much overlooked by commentators. It illustrates her experimentation with new materials, working in bronze from the late ‘50s, slate from and sponsored numerous art institutions helping 1962 and printmaking from 1969. By contrast, in Hepworth In Yorkshire, emerging artists. Additionally, they established her early and formative years are brilliantly delineated with a series of the Nimoy Foundation to give grants to support works (early drawings, paintings and sculpture) and an extensive and institutions’ artists-in-residence programmes. intimate collection of private photographs. As well as some she herself commissioned of the Yorkshire landscape in 1964 by Lee Sheldrake. In 2010, Nimoy had an exhibition of photo portraits, The artist was always very complimentary about the county of her birth Secret Selves, at MASS MoCA in his home state and early years growing up in Wakefield. International acclaim followed of Massachusetts. Nimoy described the show as a her representing Britain at the 1952 Venice Biennale and winning the social experiment, urging people to pose as their Grand Prix at the São Paulo Biennial of 1959. The Hepworth has been ‘secret selves’ – inspired by Greek mythology – designed by David Chipperfield Architects and is funded by Wakefield Council and Arts Council England plus charitable trusts, private yielding fascinating results, with several subjects individuals, patrons and members. The gallery opened on 21 May 2011 going so far as to pose nude. In the mid ’70s, Nimoy and welcomed its millionth visitor on 5 December 2013. Tate Britain is had studied photography at UCLA and began also planning a major Hepworth survey, to open in June. seriously considering this art as an alternative to Leonard Nimoy from The Fat-Bottom Revue acting. In 2003, he formally renounced acting to A Greater Freedom: 18 April 2015 - April 2016 focus primarily on being a full-time photographer, Hepworth In Yorkshire: 16 May - 6 September 2015 preferring to work with ‘series’ or themes: members of a burlesque group called The Fat- The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5AW Hand Series (1980s–early 2000s); Black & White Bottom Revue. He is represented by the (1990s–2000s); Eye Contact (1980s–early 2000s); and R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA, USA. Full Body (2007). In Full Body, Nimoy photographed (www.rmichelson.com)

Photography 1840-1860 Tate Britain DEVELOPED BY English scientist and inventor William Henry Fox Talbot just before 1840, the salt print was the very earliest photographic process to be reproducible. By the mid-1850s, photography was a common commercial William Henry Fox Talbot occupation, leaping Delio Jasse Pontus #2, 2012 scientist and inventor from the art of magically ‘fixing a shadow’, as Fox Talbot called it, to a familiar TIWANI CONTEMPORARY household commodity. Salt and silver are the main The View From Here showcases seven artists from Africa, showing in chemical components of the alchemy: silver to react London for the first time, but who already have an international profile. to light (the same reaction that tarnishes cutlery) and Abraham Oghobase (Nigeria) was a Prix Pictet finalist in 2014.Andrew salt to capture the reaction and stop it – otherwise Esiebo (Nigeria) was nominated in 2012. Namsa Leuba (Switzerland) negatives and prints would carry on darkening until was awarded the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award. nothing was left. Délio Jasse (Angola) was a finalist in the BES Photo Prize in 2014 and is part of the official selection for the Angolan Pavilion at the 56th Venice This exhibition is full of ghosts – those individuals Biennale (2015). Jasse (b. 1980, Angola) moved to Portugal when he that could not hang around for the long exposures D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson Newhaven fishermen, circa 1845 was 18, where he now lives and works. He uses alternative photographic required in the elementary process. The missing Photography. Professionals may well be familiar with processes, including cyanotype, platinum and palladium printing, alongside other early photographic printing. Recent exhibitions include links are part of the magical charm of these early these images but this exhibition is a great opportunity a group show at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (2013). captures. An accidental ‘news photograph’ by to reconsider the optical miracle of photography and Africa is in the vanguard of the effects of globalisation on culture, heritage Frenchman Édouard-Denis Baldus shows the result marvel at the rapid journey to the digital excellence of and the destruction of age-old traditions. Acute differentials are created of a flood in Lyon in 1856. And it demonstrates that today – and man’s unique ability to take and develop between the city dwelling, educated beneficiaries of a world economy and intriguing factor of photography: detail. Previously an idea. The show at Tate Britain also includes: Roger the historic tribal ethnicities with defined infrastructures, spirituality and all illustration was edited naturally by the artist Fenton, Jean-Baptiste Frenet, John Beasly Greene, beliefs. It offers a fertile source of material for a provocative lens. involved, the lens makes no such value judgements. Mathew Brady, David Hill & Robert Adamson and This is a show assembled from one great collection, Auguste Salzmann. Salt and Silver: Early Photography The View From Here: 22 May - 27 June 2015 Tiwani Contemporary 16 Little Portland Street London W1W 8BP that of Michael Wilson at the Wilson Centre for 1840-1860. Tate Britain until 7 June. www.tate.org.uk

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THE SMALL French startup has been working on turning your Smartphone into a miniature Polaroid camera that sends a photo to the case over Bluetooth and then prints SHEETS OF ‘lightpaper’ infused with tiny LEDs illuminate when current runs through it by heating paper filled with ink. The current version takes about 50 seconds from photo the diodes. Rohinni Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together to printed paper but can only hold one piece of paper at a time. The consumer version will and printing them on to a conductive layer – flexible, it can even be used as wallpaper. hold 10-30 sheets of paper and take fewer than 30 seconds to print via hardware integration The tiny diodes, about the size of a red blood cell, are randomly dispersed on the and a direct physical connection between the phone and case. Prynt CEO Clément Perrot material. Rohinni CMO Nick Smoot says: ‘Now you can just print light on what you says that the case will only cost $99 when available via a Kickstarter and will be able to want. It is brighter, thinner, it’s flexible and programmable. You can address different support flagship phone screens. A mount for phablets like the Galaxy Note or iPhone 6 sections of the diodes.’ Plus is planned as is an augmented reality feature built into the company’s camera app.

NIKON ADDS WI-FI AND NFC

SIMPLY BY tapping the device to the camera, NFC users can connect their Smartphone or tablet – as long as it’s running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher. iOS uses a manual Wi-Fi connection. The Nikon D7200 is the company’s first DSLR to have both built-in Wi-Fi and NFC. With Wi-Fi, you can view from the camera’s SD card on your OLD SCHOOL GIFT TIME mobile device. A phone or tablet can also double as a remote shutter. The D7200 offers an upgraded 24.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor, the newer Expeed 4 image processor A TRIP down memory lane from is 30% faster and has an ISO range of 100-25,600. The battery can take 1,110 shots; Photojojo – a neat set of salt and pepper continuous shooting is unchanged at 6 fps. The D7200 closely mirrors the D7100: the body shakers that look like 35mm film canisters. is virtually identical, dual SD card, the 3.2-inch screen is still fixed and non-articulating, The shakers are good for 24 ‘exposures’ video recording is capped at 1080p resolution (at 30/25/24 fps) and the 51-point autofocus and have an ISO of 400. Analogue heaven. array is unchanged. Available in April either body only or kit with an 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G Order from http://laughingsquid.com ED VR lens.

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GUARD AND LOCATE YOUR GEAR Busy photographer jetting around the world? Want to turn on your phone when landed and get a text telling you your luggage is at… [insert the airport where you are waiting]? The solution is TrakDot. Additionally, at baggage reclaim, an iPhone message alerts you that your luggage is approaching (this signal is Bluetooth, so only works at up to 8-10m). TrakDot uses the GSM phone network for location finding (rather than GPS as found in satnav) but is accurate enough to identify the right airport. It also keeps power consumption down by putting itself to sleep during a flight. TrakDot is legal and authorised for use by the FAA, FCC and Conformité Européenne. Around £80 www.trakdotluggage.co.uk

GET CONNECTED Business travellers need to stay connected and transfer data securely. Netgear’s Trek Travel Router and Range Extender enables you to boost and share SNAP HAPPY any public internet connection with firewall protection to make the connection secure. What is this swing from cyber space to old style paper prints? It’s the Polaroid Socialmatic instant print camera, a big square Android-based digital camera with built-in zero-ink printer able to instantly print 2 x 3 inch photos or stickers or share them via Wi-Fi. Refilling SAFE FLASH STORAGE with zero ink ‘Zink’ paper is simple. Take and print a photo in less than a minute. The Data on the iStorage datAshur Socialmatic’s main camera is a 14-megapixel shooter and it also has a 2-MP selfie camera Personal is secure, as it with 4 GB of storage and a microSD slot. Polaroid says the device will ship with Android 4.4 can only be accessed by entering a KitKat. Buy from www.photojojo.com personal PIN code using the onboard keyboard, before connecting to a USB port. What is more, all data transferred to the device is hardware encrypted to military standard. GET JUICED ON LOCATION PRINT-OUTS ON THE GO Need to quickly print out a boarding pass, a passport page or a couple of business emails? The Lantronix PrintServer ON LOCATION you can now (about the size of a mobile phone) prints directly from mobile devices to boost USB-compatible devices wireless printers, including a wide range of HP printers. Available for over and over again with a massive Android and iOS devices. 20,000mAh of portable zap. The high-quality Lithium Polymer SolarJuice is designed to charge HEAVY ON TYPING? Typing on mobile devices is a at home or just by the power of bore. Answer: the Logitech K480. Slim and light, it connects the sun if on location. A top Grade via Bluetooth to phones, tablets and laptops and allows you A cell, built-in 20000mAh Lithium to type everything from text messages to long reports. The slot Polymer battery charges via a cradle means mobile devices are held at just the right angle for you powerful 1.2W monocrystalline solar to read as you type. Great for iPads. panel with charging capabilities in any light condition. Dual output allows for simultaneous charging FOREIGN FIELDS 1 Google of multiple devices at high speeds has officially launched a live – fast 2.1 & 1A power output for translate app allowing both maximum iOS & Android charge iOS and Android users to talk rates (more than 7 x charges for (record) to the app and get a iPhone 6). Four LED indicators show written translation, in real time, charging and discharging process. Anti-explosion, lightweight, compact and reliable on the screen. The development with an ultra-bright LED flashlight. builds on current tools, which provide written translations of 90 languages. Barak Turovsky, POINT-AND-SHOOTS NOT DEAD YET product leader for Google Translate says: ‘Asking for DUE OUT in April is the Olympus Stylus SH-2. It is PEN-inspired design and virtually directions to the Rive Gauche, identical to the SH-1 (same 16-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, TruPic VII ordering bacalhau in Lisbon, or image processor, 24x optical zoom lens, 5-axis image stabilisation, 11.5 frames per second chatting with your grandmother continuous shooting and full HD 1080p video capture) but the new Night Scene Mode in her native Spanish just got a lot faster.’ uses an ‘extended shutter speed’ to capture superior images. Olympus claims better night scenes, cityscapes, star trails, night portraits FOREIGN FIELDS 2 Word Lens uses augmented reality to translate text (including and ‘gradation optimised’ video recording road signs, menus, newspapers, etc) by pointing a phone’s camera towards it. Supported in restricted light. The SH-2’s key languages include Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. Google addition is RAW image capture. RAW bought the technology by acquiring California-bas d developers Quest Visual in May last files contain more digital information year. Available on iOS, Android and Google Glass, users choose the language they want and therefore can be tweaked and post- to translate to and from, before holding a camera up to text, such as a road sign or menu. produced in ways compressed JPEGs Word Lens automatically translates the text to the phone’s display. This feature now works can’t. Available in black or without a data connection. Word Lens also lets people use camera mode to take a photo of black/silver. text and get a translation in 36 languages.

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Das Stue Interior: Bel Etage Suite 2015 A new elite hotel in the centre of Berlin has selected vintage photography as its central motif – with a permanent exhibition of original 20th century fashion classics and portraits created by seminal masters of the camera art.

TEXT MIKE VON JOEL IMAGES THE AURORA COLLECTION

IDDEN FROM the tourist chequered careers since, but are now years later the city itself took control, that enchants first time guests) the interior bustle of Berlin, although much sought after properties. One such leasing it to the German postal system. design makes witty recurring references even that is refined by New is the former Royal Danish Embassy on Today this former embassy has been to its famous neighbour. In the entrance York or London standards, Drakestraße. recreated by Axthelm Architects on behalf is a striking, oversized crocodile-head is the Tiergarten district – a of a group of Latin investors, and it greets sculpture in bronze by Paris-based artist Hquiet backwater in the very centre of the Originally constructed in 1938 by Johann the world as Das Stue – a chic two-year-old Quentin Garel; a chicken-wire gorilla by city and home to a collection of sedate Emil Schaudt, the architect to the KaDeWe boutique hotel that sets out to recreate the Milan artist, Benedetta Mori, lurks in the foreign embassies and diplomat housing. department store, Berlin’s equivalent grandeur and style of La Belle Époque with lobby; footstools in the form of leather The expansive Tiergarten public park – the of Harrods, Albert Speer allegedly told a decidedly 21st century infrastructure. animals (buffalo, rhinos, bulls) handmade second largest open space in Germany Schaudt to ‘build in a neo-classical style’. in the UK by the Omersa company are after the Englischer Garten in Munich – The result was not popular with the Danes MODERN EMBRACES TRADITION dotted around. Multicoloured textile birds, borders on the internationally renowned and the King himself never stayed in the Modernism and tradition go hand in glove handmade by artist Abigail Brown, nest Berlin Zoo. Edging the zoo itself are some royal apartment, most likely as a snub to at Das Stue, which is itself a Danish word in indentations throughout the building. architectural survivors of the destructive Hitler. Denmark reclaimed the building meaning ‘living room’. Overlooking the LVG Arquitectura realised the interior fall of Berlin (1945) that have enjoyed after the war but sold it on by 1978; five ostrich enclosure of the zoo opposite (a fact design of the 80 rooms and suites, most

Das Stue Interior: Private Dining 2015 Das Stue Interior: Stue Suite 2015 Das Stue Interior: Lobby 2015

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IRVING PENN Marlene Dietrich 1948

BERT STERN Marilyn Monroe The Last Sitting, 1962 HORST P. HORST Marlene Dietrich New York, 1942

with panoramic views over the zoo and Tiergarten park and notable for their complex digital and electronic lighting and entertainment facilities. The Spanish architect and interior designer Patricia Urquiola, now based in Milan, is responsible for the public areas and a Spanish accent pervades the ambience at Das Stue. Coincidentally, its next door neighbour is the Spanish Embassy. The keynote restaurant Cinco (referencing the five senses) earned a Michelin star within a year of opening – Catalan chef Paco Pérez already has a two star accolade at his Miramar restaurant on the Costa Brava. The cuisine is a modern interpretation of Mediterranean and the traditional tapas have a twist towards the experimental. There is also a less formal dining space (the Casual) and a bar popular in the evenings with on-trend Berliners who look every bit as glamorous as the hotel staff. Adaptations of forgotten 1920s and 1930s cocktails are an option. In the evening the floor to ceiling window behind the bar (looking out on to the zoo) is covered by a drop screen that shows outsize old black & white movies to great atmospheric effect. You are never alone with those old comediantes, Laurel and Hardy! Weekends offer live music provided by local cult heroes. INGE MORATH Mrs. Eveleigh Nash The Mall, 1953

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JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE Anna La Pradvina Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 1911

DIANE ARBUS Lady bartender New Orleans, 1964 HORST P. HORST Mainbocher Corset, 1939

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A LATIN BEAT AT ITS HEART All this is not so surprising, the owners of AURORA COLLECTION the hotel, Aurora Fierro, Daniel Aristot Featured photographers and Juanjo Gimeno, are based in Andorra, Panama and Spain. To aficionados of the DIANE ARBUS history of Spanish photography in the 1923 – 1971, American latter half of the 20th century, the name RICHARD AVEDON Aurora Fierro will immediately stand 1923 – 2004. American out. The philanthropist, photographer, ATIN AYA collector – and former Madrid gallerist and 1955 – 2007. Spanish publisher (Spanish version of Zoom) – has SERGE BALKIN apportioned some of her key holdings 1905 – 1990. Russian to be on permanent display at Das Stue, LILLIAN BASSMAN where it is referred to as the Aurora 1917 – 2012. American Collection. And it is this museum quality HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON exhibition that makes the hotel unique 1908 – 2004. French among Berlin’s other high-end destination LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE venues. 1895 – 1989. American WILLEM DIEPRAAM The Aurora Collection at Das Stue features b.1944. Dutch vintage, original images by predominantly LOUIS FAURER American masters, but also includes 1916 – 2001. American instantly recognisable classic photographs BURT GLINN by many others, including Horst P. Horst 1925 – 2008. American (Mainbocher Corset, 1939); Jacques- F.C. GUNDLACH Henri Lartigue (Anna La Pradvina, Bois b. 1926. German de Boulogne, 1911); George Hoyningen- PHILIPPE HALSMAN Huene (Divers: Horst & model, 1930); [Filips Halsmans] Henri Cartier-Bresson (Hyde Park, 1906 – 1979. Latvian London, 1945) and Inge Morath (Mrs. HORST P. HORST Eveleigh Nash, The Mall, 1953). As you [Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann] 1906 – 1999. German-American enter the lobby/reception area there are FRANK HORVAT two studies of Marlene Dietrich in her b.1928. Italian prime (Horst 1942 & Irving Penn 1948) and one of Bert Stern’s famous ‘last sittings’ GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE 1900 – 1968. Russian with Marilyn Monroe from 1962. There is DORA KALLMUS an accent on fashion and glamour as befits [Madame D’Ora] the environment of an ultra-cool hotel, 1881 – 1963. Austrian and, indeed, this selection (co-curated by WILLIAM KLEIN Patricia Urquiola) is reminiscent of the WILLIAM KLEIN Piazza di Spagna 1960 b. 1928. American recent blockbuster exhibition of Vanity KARL LAGERFELD Fair photographs in London’s National [Karl Otto Lagerfeldt] Portrait Gallery. The difference here b. 1933. German is that it is possible to get up close and JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE personal with each (mostly) signed vintage 1894 – 1986. French print in an unhurried and casual way. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Even the overtly commercial magazine 1946 – 1989. American images have been selected for excellence: LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY for example, William Klein’s memorable 1895 – 1946. Hungarian picture of models in striped dresses SARAH MOON on a zebra crossing (Piazza di Spagna, [Marielle Hadengue] b. 1940. French 1960) where Klein had the girls walking backwards and forwards for hours until he INGE MORATH [Ingeborg Hermine Morath] captured the definitive juxtaposition. Much 1923 – 2002) Austrian to the annoyance of the local traffic. CATHLEEN NAUNDORF b. 1968. German The use of original art to substitute HELMUT NEWTON for decoration in both hotels and [Helmut Neustädter] corporate spaces is nothing new. And 1920 – 2004. German the New Germany was at the forefront NORMAN PARKINSON of commissioning impressive large-scale 1913 – 1990. English works to fit the purpose. Most prefer bold IRVING PENN statements from young contemporary 1917 – 2009. American painters and sculptors. To choose vintage MAN RAY classic photographs is an unusual and [Emmanuel Radnitzky] 1890 – 1976. American interesting departure. This Berlin member of Design Hotels has positioned itself to CINDY SHERMAN [Cynthia Morris Sherman] receive the new international jet-set who b. 1954. American want discreet service, peace and quiet, in MELVIN SOKOLSKY the heart of Germany’s bustling capital. b.1933. American The Aurora Collection is the icing on the EDWARD STEICHEN Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. 1879 – 1973. Luxembourgian

BERT STERN 1929 – 2013. American Das Stue Drakestraße 1, 10787 Berlin WEEGEE +4930 311 7220 www.das-stue.com [Arthur Fellig] EDWARD STEICHEN Marion Morehouse, 1927 1899 – 1968. Ukrainian

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Zavier Ellis: Let’s start with the work. I studied sculpture because I was interested Can you outline your intentions and the in things. It comes back to Robert Morris’ meaning behind it? idea of interacting with the artwork physically. But I eventually relocated my Tom Butler: I’m interested in placing an practice by making drawings of negative object in space and using the photograph spaces or making in-camera multiple as a readymade environment in which to exposures. I began trying to express the place something. At first that was landscape same ideas but with drawing or photography based, where I would place a barrier in a in two dimensions rather than large-scale street on an antique postcard in order to objects. I still see my current work as divide an open space. With the cabinet sculptural interventions with paint in a cards, the mask became the barrier, where photographic environment. the identity of the sitter becomes concealed. It amounts to the same thing, as I am I consider the method of working over interested in revealing and concealing or manipulating imagery to be a genre in things within readymade, photographic its own right now. I think immediately of source material. the Chapman Brothers; John Stezaker; Julie Cockburn; Claire Pestaille; Maurizio Is it important that you use found Anzeri, etc. Inherent to that is the material? Can you foresee yourself question of originality. How do you working with a blank canvas? navigate this?

The thing about a readymade is that I have I navigate it as honestly as I can. I have to be something to respond to straight away. cognisant of the fact that I’m working with It’s like being given a lead up to a joke or found material but I have to respond to it an improvisation game where you have to entirely originally. That is ‘the art bit’, as Ed respond quickly to something unexpected Allington would say. All of these artists work and I find that very exciting. What’s nice in a different way and my intervention has to about the cabinet cards is that they’re all the be personal. same format and yet each one is unique so that I can respond in a different way to Even though you are working gouache each sitter. over the original images, they remain seamless, suggesting you are making a Who or what are your influences? conscious effort to interweave your work into the original piece. I studied art history before going to art school and really got into Sturm und Drang. ALTERED I see the painting as a means to an end. I studied Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Tom Butler’s highly individual take on It’s the technique by which I am able to Blechen and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, intervene and contribute my ‘art bit’ to learning about these beautiful landscapes the appropriation of found images these images. I want it to be as seamless as and paintings of ruined cathedrals in a possible to seduce the eye and to draw the Gothic or romantic context. At art school viewers in so they can look for the edges I got into post-minimalism and Robert of the intervention. This is quite sculptural Morris. I became interested in the again – the delineation between object interaction between sculpture and the and space. viewer. I found this strange link between the two where I wanted to inhabit the This takes me on to the content of the same space of the artwork. I began to make work. To me the subject is overcome interactive sculpture at Chelsea and by the by something from within – like a time I got to the Slade for my MFA, my work STATES manifestation of the unconscious. It also was flattening out and becoming more and makes me think of freak shows. How more two dimensional. TEXT ZAVIER ELLIS IMAGES TOM BUTLER COURTESY CHARLIE SMITH LONDON relevant is this to you?

The ideas of romanticism and It is about the dignity of the sitter. I’m minimalism are diametric opposites to things with a clean palette each time and I wasn’t ready for art school but I knew I fascinated by freak shows but it’s more about me, so how do you move between them? then I’d bring it together in a way that only I wanted to learn all I could about art in a striving against adversity and the struggle to can, immersing myself in different languages. historical context. I wanted to learn the survive as an individual. I’m not out to make It’s like a palette. Your tongue has a theory before the practice. the sitters in my cabinet cards into freaks or sensation for sweet things and then craves It is interesting that you referred to to obliterate them in any way. I’m interested something salty; something decaying that yourself as an art historian, which makes I’m always intrigued when you discuss in borrowing their image, responding to it, then needs cleansing. As an art historian, me wonder why you chose to study Art your two-dimensional work in sculptural and creating something new in as dignified a I would enjoy approaching these different History before Fine Art? terms. Can you expand on this? way as possible.

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Left MEONCKTON 2014 Gouache on albumen print

Above NIMS 2014 Gouache on Albumen print

Right GREENIG 2014 Gouache on Albumen print

Below LOVE 2014 Gouache on Albumen print

I’m fascinated by freak shows but it’s more “ about striving against adversity and the struggle to survive as an individual ”

Can you talk about the more sinister, remain true to myself and make work that is macabre element in your work? authentic. But it’s important to realise that you are part of a larger system beyond the There’s potentially something sinister in the studio. concealed. That’s ok – it shouldn’t be filtered out – and I think there’s a way of expressing As someone who is invited to the odd it, as there was in the Gothic. My work is at art college to lecture on professional its most successful when it challenges the practice, I think it’s problematic that it viewer. isn’t taught in many art schools. Do you have any feelings about that? When we met three years ago, you’d already exhibited widely and you now I do. We had very little at undergraduate also have strong representation in level and it would have been wonderful Belgium and have been very successful to have more gallerists and dealers visit at many high-end international art fairs. colleges. I think the rooms would be packed. How has this affected you? Related to this, do you have any advice It sharpens and simplifies my thinking. I have for younger, emerging artists? to deliver. It has become less about digging into my soul in my studio and more about Yes, put in as many applications for open being a professional enterprise. call shows as possible. Keep it simple; keep positive; don’t bullshit; and be as Some might think this is a shame. Many professional as you can from the start. Most people might question the notion that importantly, be tenacious! once you achieve success you have to put professionalism above romanticism. A full suite of Tom Butler’s cabinet cards is available from Charlie Smith Gallery, 2nd Floor, That’s fine. I question it myself. I still have to 336 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR

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THE MAN AND THE MOMENT

The unique American photographer ELLIOTT ERWITT is to collect the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize in April as part of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House

TEXT PAT BOOTH & MIKE VON JOEL IMAGES ELLIOTT ERWITT/MAGNUM

PORTRAIT PAT BOOTH c.1982 © Pat Booth /F22 Magazine Elliott Erwitt, New York BOOTH PAT

T 86, Elliott Erwitt has born in Paris in 1928, the son of Russian Pat Booth: You made a batch of much Moviemaking and photographing have little a long and distinguished émigré parents. His family emigrated to less serious television programmes for in common. I would say the only substantial career behind the lens. He America in 1939 after spending some HBO – almost a whole other career? thing in common is the need for visual is renowned for his droll wit years in Italy, firstly to New York and soon sense for composition. and uncanny ability to see afterwards to Los Angeles. In 1948, after Indeed. I made 18 films for Home Box Aand capture the same humour through attending classes at the Los Angeles City Office (HBO) in the ‘80s. They were shot You campaigned during your time as his lens – often in situations available College, he moved back to New York where all around the world and make fun of how President of Magnum for the rights of for only a matter of seconds. Erwitt, his first job was to take pictures of famous people behave and spend money. I would photographers over their own work. Has famously self-deprecating, describes his authors for book jackets. Edward Steichen have liked to continue filming but a new digital image making and the internet personal photography as a ‘hobby’ but saw and admired his work and got him and most unsympathetic person came to helped or hindered this? his irreverent eye is decidedly present in a job at the studio of Valentino Sarra, a be in charge at HBO and, as the feeling all his commercial works. F22 editor Mike commercial photographer. In 1951 Erwitt was mutual, I went back to my regular Digital image making has made almost von Joel and the late Pat Booth* once joined the army as a dark-room technician. day job of photography after many years. everyone except some lower primates into had the good fortune to capitalise on Pat’s While stationed in France, he visited the Producing and filming was a good period photographers. But ‘photographers’ does friendship with Erwitt, never one to court Paris offices of Magnum where he met for me while it lasted and it also gave me not mean ‘good photographers’. Same personal publicity, for her to record a rare Robert Capa, who suggested he should join the opportunity to continue photographing as nice pencils don’t make good writers. in-depth and insightful interview. A short the organisation. This he did in 1953. Erwitt on the back of my productions. As requirements in our business are not extract of this appears below in celebration became President of Magnum in 1959 and great, the ease of digital photography and of his well-deserved OCP 2015 award by campaigned actively for photographers’ Does the still image have more or less distribution of it has reduced quality in Sony World Photography. rights. Since then he has worked in power than moving pictures with a general, thus making copyright even film, advertising, photojournalism and sound track – are they, in fact, even more important – if less relevant – in Now resident in the USA, Elliott Erwitt was architectural photography. comparable? our business.

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You began life with a Rolleiflex – what cameras do you use these days?

I use whatever camera is best suited for the job. Everything from a plate 8”x 10” to a digital 35mm equivalent. But my walking around camera is a film Leica with a normal 50mm lens. I have no lofty conclusions about digital versus film. Digital is surely most useful for speed and economy and so best for commercial work that does not have – is not likely to have – much of an afterlife.

Have you been influenced by any particular photographer?

No, but all the great photographers have influenced me to some extent – people like Cartier-Bresson, Atget and Kertész. Steichen helped me a bit when he was in charge of the Department of Photography at MoMA. He actually arranged a job for me with Valentino Sarra when I needed one. He also bought a number of my pictures for the permanent collection at MoMA.

Do you mix much with other photographers?

SPAIN. Madrid. 1995. Prado Museum © Elliott Erwitt / MAGNUM PHOTOS No, although I do have a few friends from Magnum. Groups of photographers are like gatherings of dentists or psychiatrists A long life and a long career. Have your – they get together and talk shop. I find thoughts turned to posterity yet? Is a that I’m interested in my subjects, not in foundation in the offing? my colleagues. Travelling and pointing my camera at people is what I like to do. I am still perpendicular and as active as ever. Mostly I am thinking of my next book Does the passage of time alter the and exhibition and the offer I just had to do original ‘story’ of an image, can it mature some photography. I will happily entertain into something else entirely different any suggestions as to a foundation. from the photographer‘s original intent? Years ago you volunteered to be on I do not understand your question. I the committee for the new Sony World suppose the way one uses old pictures in Photography Awards. Are you a regular exhibitions or book layouts can produce supporter of these type of initiatives for a different perception. In my personal emerging talent? photography, I am not concerned with original intent. I am just concerned with Regarding Sony: it seemed like a good trying to take a good picture. idea and a nice junket. I do get very many requests of this sort and normally I do not You have always been scathing about accept. But, of course, I myself and my MEXICO. Guanajuato 1957 © Elliott Erwitt / MAGNUM PHOTOS certain directions in photography Magnum colleagues are always interested – fashion in particular. Of course, even in emerging talents as possible candidates Steichen took fashion snaps… for our organisation. Award venues are just one of the many places to find such people. I have nothing against ‘fashion photography’. There is a lot in the category If I asked you to choose one single image that is wonderful. I do have plenty against of yours that expresses everything you lousy fashion photography – or any kind of feel about life and the great conundrum boring and banal photography. of human existence, would you be able to? Your background is so fabulously international and yet you have chosen You must be kidding! I am just a to be based in the USA, which some photographer and not Jesus Christ. might think is quite parochial despite its apparent multiculturalism. Do you miss the intellectual heritage of Europe? *Writer and photographer Pat Booth (latterly Lady I do not think there is anything intellectual Lowe) was an integral part of the planning, concept with good photography, whether European and formulation of F22 Magazine. She died from cancer before the first issue of F22 was published or Mongolian. I do not miss the supposed and the project went ahead as a tribute to her USA, Arlington, Virginia. November 25, 1963 © Elliott Erwitt / MAGNUM PHOTOS Courtesy Sony World Photography 2015 ‘intellectual heritage of Europe’. I do miss a enthusiasm and support. In her classic book Master Elliott Erwitt Photographers: The World’s Great Photographers We are grateful to Elliott Erwitt and Magnum Photos for good plate of non-intellectual spaghetti al 24 April – 10 May 2015 on Their Art and Technique (1983), she personally permission to reproduce these images in conjunction Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition dente, which is missing in most countries interviewed most of the world’s greatest exponents with Pat Booth’s archive interview. The complete text of Somerset House, London. and only peculiar to Italy. of the camera art. this is available at www.state-media.com/f22

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The Dover Street Arts Club

IN PRIVATE PLACES FORGETart DECORATION – EDUCATION, SENSATION AND COLLABORATION GUIDE THE ART SHOWN IN TODAY’S CUTTING EDGE SOCIAL CLUBS

TEXT MIKE VON JOEL IMAGES ED SYKES & MARK BLOWER

N THE 18th century, the Grand Tour The sculpture gallery at Chatsworth is the influential private spaces with their choice remain of this historic area bar the street had all the attraction of a summer in biggest room in the whole house. And when memberships have nearly all elected names, which conjure some resonance of Ibiza for the well-heeled and aristocratic a gentleman nightly attended his club, it was attractive and magnetic young women, the past: Crutched Friars; French Ordinary members of Britain’s beau monde. Those expected that the decor would reflect that complete with impressive CVs, to curate Court; Seething Lane. But in 2008 the LC lucky enough (in the case of physicians, of his own home – with engravings, pastoral their contemporary art platforms. The relocated to a rare Grade II-listed house Idrawing masters, servants) or those affluent landscapes and the classic three-quarter results clearly indicate a new departure for originally built for the Ambassador of enough (the milordi, as the Italians called portrait very much in evidence. promoting art and artists and that a viable France in 1616. It still retains the symmetry them) might spend several months – or alternative to the traditional gallery has been and proportions of an 18th century home, several years – wandering around Europe Fast forward to today and art is still an successfully established. having being sympathetically restored in absorbing varied arts and cultures. The essential ingredient of London’s private 2009 by the current owners, the Hampden journey home usually included a plethora clubs – a few still housed in original 18th THE OLD CITY Group. A stroke of good fortune as of acquired artefacts and original (and century buildings – but some have eschewed Charlie Oliver, legal counsel of HG, is a not-so-original) artworks. The need to a permanent collection of decorative wall- IN THE OLD city of London, a stone’s proactive supporter of the quarterly art exhibit these and show them off to fellow fillers to engage in an interaction with throw from the Tower and decidedly buried exhibitions. Membership is, as might be connoisseurs helped fire the trend for private contemporary art that would be the envy amid the gleaming chrome and glass hi-rise imagined, made up of the conservative ‘viewing galleries’ and no decent stately pile of many a struggling commercial gallery. banking and insurance skyscrapers is the professions – banking, insurance – but there or London mansion could do without one. And here is the curious thing. These highly Lloyds Club (founded 1920). Few remnants is nothing pedestrian about the curatorial

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The Lloyds Club programme under the direction of Lavinia a benefit to the members. We have certainly Diniz Freitas. A graduate of the Catholic included some daring pieces – including work University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and by Tracey Emin.’ Sotheby’s Institute, London, she has managed Art at Lloyds since 2011. For Freitas, the LC opportunity typifies a new way of thinking about the artist-collector ‘Sometimes we have long queues outside for equation and offers a proven alternative to the openings,’ laughs general manager, Sam traditional gallery exposure. ‘Apparently, 15 Krass, having explained the staff’s overall galleries have closed their premises in London enthusiasm for the private view events. in this first quarter. The LC is not sales- ‘We have a limit on capacity but no limit oriented – it mainly wants the art to enhance on members’ guest lists!’ For Lavinia Diniz the overall reputation of the club – galleries, Freitas, club rules are a factor in her forward of course, are by nature vendors. I think it planning: ‘I have full curatorial freedom and is a win-win situation if the club and arts I can collaborate with galleries and other programme work together. These exhibitions curators if I choose to. The Lloyds Club is a have all put the Lloyds Club on the art map place where members conduct business, as a place to see and buy art. Incidentally, network and relax, so viewing times for our recent exhibition by Anglo-Brazilian artist non-members are not as flexible as I, co- Olivier Mourão, called Ibizology, has done curators or gallery partners would like. But it very well in terms of sales.’ is wonderful to see and feel the building and its atmosphere changing with each of these MAYFAIR Lavinia Diniz Freitas Pernilla Holmes exhibitions.’ CURRENTLY ONE of the most fashionable the current owners, the stellar Arjun Waney Paltrow, as membership secretary. But, This is not as restricting as it might sound for thoroughfares in London, Dover Street and Gary Landesberg. Waney, an Indian today, an exclusive DSAC hosts high flyers the in-house technicians make a lot possible: has housed a club at number 40 since self-made billionaire, venture capitalist working within the arts and media and ‘Last year, our exhibition Conscientia: Latin the Dover Street Arts Club (originally and restaurateur (Zuma, Roka, La Petite provides an inspired visual arts programme American Consciousness had quite a few founded in 1863 by Charles Dickens, Maison) only financed his first restaurant curated by the cool creative duo of Amelie rather small and precious items. Another Anthony Trollope, Lord Leighton et al in 2002, aged 63. The DSAC is typically an von Wedel and Pernilla Holmes. Both was a large and heavy neon piece. For the and reputedly the oldest arts club in the elite, sophisticated affair with impeccable have impressive professional credentials first time, we had video works installed on world) relocated there in 1896. The 18th service and a glamorous international with a wide experience of education-based different floors. Several delicate 18th century century townhouse, formerly home to staff. Members of the previous regime, an programming on the international stage. colonial art pieces had special Perspex cases Baron Stanley of Alderley, still retains its increasingly shabby business on a downward Von Wedel, an Art History and Economics specially built for them,’ Freitas recollects, sense of period grandeur, despite severe financial spiral, were reportedly much miffed graduate, frequently advises private clients and also notes that her menu ‘…does not bomb damage and extensive re-building by the take-over, not least the addition of and foundations on philanthropic ventures. have exhibitions to decorate the club but as post-war – and a complete renovation by controversial marmite actress, Gwyneth Courtauld educated, Holmes has previously worked with leading galleries in the USA

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talent. There are a number of collectors run-down aspects were getting out of hand among the membership and many others when, to the surprise of not a few members, with a serious interest in art.’ a new and very much hands-on owner was announced in the form of a vivacious young Holmes is a keen supporter of young talent woman from Yorkshire. To the everyone’s and keeps a weather eye on international relief, Caroline Towning not only had currents. Her academic background keeps a vision for Blacks that chimed with the her grounded yet still enthusiastic about membership, but the tenacity and charm introducing new elements to her audience. to make it happen – and a large part of her ‘We wanted to pay homage to the origins of evolutionary plans involve art and artists. It is the club itself by supporting young artists, a tribute to her drive and ambition for Blacks it is difficult to do video or sculpture here that the major investor has given her carte of course, but the paintings – the talks, blanche to take the club back to its origins events – are all part of a dynamic designed as an atmospheric supper club and home for to enhance the experience of new art. And those on the cutting edge of the visual arts particularly art that can dominate the space and creative media. and present well…’ ‘I feel I am a little bit of a black sheep myself,’ SOHO laughs Towning. ‘I grew up in Leeds and I was a nightmare child! I went off to New NESTLED IN the maze of interconnecting York when I was 19 and stayed for two years. Caroline Towning streets that make up historic Soho is Blacks When I came back, I worked as an animator Club on Dean Street, right opposite its more and in TV commercials in Soho – and spent and has been a respected commentator own right. Two of the rooms are devoted neon neighbour, the Groucho. Walking into many nights drinking in Groucho.’ Towning’s on art for the Financial Times, Newsweek to quarterly exhibitions which we publicise this 1732, Grade II-listed former home of louche Soho lifestyle might be seen by some and ARTnews, among others. Together they widely and hold private views for, to which Charles Fortnum (Fortnum & Mason) is like as the perfect apprenticeship for being the provide a changing menu of emerging artists non-members are also invited.’ walking into a Dickensian time warp – and boss of Blacks, but her sunny persona belies interspersed with leading players in the that is just how the owner and members a highly competent and focused person: ‘I vanguard of contemporary art. There is no overt ‘selling’ of the works in like it. Blacks is truly unique. Built in 1732 took over last year and spent the first few the DSAC shows but the team feels that by John Meard Jnr, an apprentice to Sir weeks just observing. We are now working ‘We were brought in to build the permanent the artists deserve general exposure as well Christopher Wren, it has never been with English Heritage to reconstitute the collection eight months before the club as access to its up-scale membership. ‘We ‘refurbished’, rather patched up as needs building and give Blacks a future. I wanted to opened,’ Holmes recollects. ‘I had been welcome the public in on Wednesday and must. In 1992, Blacks Club was founded by keep our involvement in the art events but working at the Haunch of Venison gallery Saturday mornings by appointment,’ says Giuseppe Mascoli and Tom Bantock, a with a different take on it – a sort of stripping before joining Amelie. The permanent Holmes with genuine enthusiasm. ‘A lot well-known Soho rake and raconteur, the back and rebuilding. I formed a collaboration collection is ongoing – Jai Waney, one of of the permanent works are by significant name indicating its role as an antidote to with the Cob Gallery and we did a big the directors, is very active in this area. He artists so we thought the exhibition White’s Club and all it represented. Even Frieze night here and used Hogarth’s Rake’s is recognised as a major collector in his programme should be more about emerging Blacks’ staunch supporters would agree the Progress as a theme. But we will certainly

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The House of St Barnabas have our own identity. We are kicking off London born, with a degree in Art History with a members’ art show in September…’ from Bristol, Heller ran the busy schedule of the Muse Gallery at 269 Portobello Road Monthly art shows are scheduled from May for several years. She then acted as private with private views for members and the curator for two individual collections. She artists will have a guest list for the night. The has worked closely with Lavinia Diniz Freitas accent will be on emerging talent. ‘We will for a number of years. Heller offered her also have a music night on Sunday evenings,’ services to the HOSB and to her surprise Towning enthuses. Again she has drawn on – after six months’ wait – was invited in to external talent to provide the expertise. ‘And discuss her ideas. She remembers: ‘I had we will also screen some vintage and archive never been inside the building before – I was films on Sunday nights. My whole idea is absolutely gobsmacked. It is stunning. It was inclusive and not exclusive…’ June 2013 and they gave me the job with an immediate start. Right when the art world SOHO SQUARE is totally shut down. I begged and borrowed the first exhibition, which actually opened LOCATED ON the corner of Soho Square that September.’ and Greek Street is one of London’s true architectural gems. The House of St The club has a permanent collection of Barnabas started life in 1746, as a newly pieces donated by artists who are given a Katie Heller Amelie von Wedel built house on the site of an earlier 1679 complimentary membership, the duration property. The key Rococo interiors remain of which depends on the value of the suffice it to say the programme is full until Gallery... I would like to do more shows relatively unaltered to this day – although the work. Heller has a free curatorial hand 2018. We are working with some of the but there is no budget – I am looking for 19th century did witness rear additions and but occasionally it provokes a managerial leading galleries in London and all are selling patrons,’ Heller smiles invitingly. ‘I also want an atmospheric chapel (1864) which now discussion. Additionally, the fabric of the shows – a percentage goes to the charity.’ to develop our outreach ideas to involve the occupies the former stable yard. This original building cannot be interfered with when Such is the pull of the HOSB now that community. We are working on doing our Georgian house is steeped in Soho’s history, installing the three major changeovers a dealers are willing to tie up their artists’ own print editions too, in collaboration with its garden (and plane tree) likely featured in year. ‘There are eight rooms, the chapel work for four months. The first Friday in Dark Matter studio, with a special deal for Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities. and a courtyard. The larger installations in each month sees a house art tour, open to members... of course!’ In 1862, the current Christian charity took the courtyard last for six months; the Soho the public at 1pm, and anyone can make over the lease to provide a refuge for ‘waifs Room (dining room) is commissioned work an appointment to visit. The art parties to and strays’ on London’s streets and it latterly that stays up for a year and we also keep art launch the re-hang cause queues around WITHOUT DOUBT the art world is became a hostel for women and girls until in place in the library/bar for a year,’ Heller Soho Square. All collaborating commercial becoming polarised. Art fair attendance is 2006, when a modern interpretation on the notes. ‘The work on the stairs is kept for galleries are granted temporary membership placing the traditional gallery in a precarious original objective resulted in an Employment two years. The four larger rooms have the facilities to use the dining room and bar. It trading position. Auction houses are Academy, and a not-for-profit members’ club. changing exhibitions. As a charity, we have makes for a thriving and lively club that has aggressive and predatory. Art crowds are Despite the severe restrictions of a Grade no budget, so the artists have to support the ambitions to branch out – Soho House style fickle and their expectations exaggerated. It 1-listed interior, the trustees are committed costs of their contribution and sometimes – to Paris and beyond. may well be that the particular environment to a programme of contemporary art there are frictions – public access is limited, of a members club and the enhanced – and activities and the charismatic Katie Heller is the lighting might not be as in a gallery. ‘We like working with White Cube, Sprüth repeat – audience they provide, mark one curator of the art calendar. But we deliver an impressive audience and Magers, Lisson, Stephen Friedman future for selling art with integrity.

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