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NINA FOWLER's multi-disciplinary practice This use of found imagery relates to Fowler's ART13 in a solo presentation with her encompasses painting, printmaking and interest in other people's archives. After Parisian gallery Dukan Hourdequin. sculpture but focuses above all on drawing. receiving a First in sculpture from Brighton The art trade has always been built on optimism – from the Her meticulously rendered pencil and University, she worked as archivist to former Nina Fowler was born in London in 1981. In studio or darkroom up to the gallery wall it is an essential graphite drawings are infused with a cine- Indica gallerist, John Dunbar, who introduced 2008, she was nominated for the BP Portrait matic quality and draw on a fascination with Fowler to David Courts, the jewellery Prize with her painting of the Royal Ballet ingredient of all creativity. Hollywood's golden age of glamour. The designer who made Keith Richards' famous dancer, Carlos Acosta; and in 2010 her work starting point for her drawings are obscure skull ring, curator James Birch and Barry was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing THE WAVE AFTER WAVE of negativity that pervades movies from film noir and the silent era and Miles (writer and co-director of the Indica Prize. She was the face of The Other Art Fair through extensive research Fowler cherry- gallery and bookshop). Fowler has borrowed 2012, and nominated for the Young Masters contemporary Britain is hitting the Arts hard. The picks images of starlets who held fleeting images from their personal archives to Art Prize. Her work is currently being ramifications of political and commercial incompetence is moments of fame. ‘These actresses may instigate her latest project, Intimate collected by British film, fashion and have been forgotten over time but I feel they Strangers, a series of drawings based on music luminaries such as John redirected to the creative community without hesitation. represent the darker underbelly of fame today these photographs. Londoners can see Maybury, Jude Law, Caroline Issa and They are an easy target for cutbacks (not the salaries of the but with an impenetrable shield of glamour’. these new works in Spring 2013 at London Sharleen Spiteri. apparatchiks who decide these things, you might note) because the benefit of art is made up of indefinable qualities. In today’s lingua franca, a successful exhibition is reduced to one that has the most paying visitors, or one that sells the most work. Apply this reasoning to art history and countless 14 BEASTS OF PALM BEACH ISLINGTONHelmut Koller's fusionART of FAIR FEATURE household names would have been consigned to the dustbin of failure. 09 Photowildlife 50 excels art & photography again

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1 Annie Leibovitz ANNIE LEIBOVITZ’S STUDIO HOME UP FOR $33 MILLION PHOTOGRAPHER Annie Leibovitz is to sell her West Village home. Composed of three separate townhouses, one for living, one for 1 office space and one as guest quarters. A Hasselblad snap from the Moon - Earth showing Leibovitz, 63, created the compound in 2002 after she purchased all three buildings on the LOST IN SPACE corner of Greenwich Street in Manhattan for Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan, the $6.1million. The brick buildings, in a Greek last man on the moon, left a camera on Revival style, date back to the 1830’s, with the lunar surface, hoping it would be a combined total of more than 10,200 recovered by future astronauts. The square feet. Hasselblad, used to capture many of the iconic images from the mission, was A breach of contract lawsuit against Ms left with its lens pointing into space on Leibovitz was filed by Art Capital Group for 14 December 1972. $24 million regarding the repayment of loans in 2009. She had borrowed $15.5million after Now 78, he told Bloomberg he thought 1 experiencing financial challenges due to the The irrepressible Darryn Lyons his voyage ‘wasn’t the end but the 1 Is that Ozone? Matelots Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson & Lauren Bacall set sail then recent loss of her father, her mother, beginning’ for manned exploration of the for Liberty Island. and her long-time partner, Susan Sontag, as Moon. ‘I left my Hasselblad camera there somewhere but I didn’t see her in

well as the addition of twins to her family. BUST BIG PIX BOUGHT so someday someone would come back BIRT MICHAEL GREATUNSEENPHOTOGRAPHS the darkness. However Art Capital Group subsequently Attention-seeking agent, Darryn Lyons, has acquired the assets of his own defunct photo and find out how much deterioration solar extended the due date for repayment. agency. He has emerged as a shareholder in BPGG Limited which bought Big Pictures, the cosmic radiation had on the glass. TINA BROWN’S Talk The light was very low I think after what happened to Natasha ‘At the end of the evening everyone Under the revised agreement, Ms Leibovitz UK-based agency founded by Lyons 20 years ago, for £164,000. Wouldn’t it have been better to take the magazine launch party something like 15 sec f4. I Richardson(1) – and also to the people had to queue for their return trip back continues to retain control over her work, and camera with me, get the [final] shots, was the media event of subsequently scanned them on a in the Twin Towers 9/11 attack to Manhattan in a grim, brightly lit is still the ‘exclusive agent in the sale of her ACCOUNTANTS RSM Tenon, were appointed to resigned from the company but had retained take the film pack off and then throw the the week for New York Nikon Coolscan scanner. Then I (Towers glimpsed in the background). utilitarian waiting area(2). A few years real property (land) and copyrights’. sell the company’s assets by the high court his position as chairman of the board. Big camera away?’. The Apollo programme in September 1999. I was brought in stitched two overlapping consecutive later the Towers had fallen. The maga- last September, when all staff were made Pictures had been experiencing financial cost American taxpayers more than from London to photograph the party pictures together using a custom ‘At the venue on Liberty Island I zine closed shortly afterwards. I think Annie Leibovitz is selling the buildings redundant and unpaid for their last month at difficulties for some time. $150 billion (£93 billion). DAFYDD JONES for the magazine. Boats ferried guests version of Apple’s Quicktime struggled. Much of the party was in the Talk magazine launch marked the because she plans to move uptown to be BP. Snappers maintained property had not TALK MAGAZINE PARTY to Liberty Island. At the time I did Authoring Studio to make this picture. pitch darkness lit by the occasional end of an era for print publication.’ closer to the school of her three daughters – been returned and photographer Charlie In 2012, Lyons was quizzed about the NEW YORK 1999 this picture I was experimenting with There was a beautiful late evening illuminated balloon. I bumped into the Sarah Cameron Leibovitz, who was born in Pycraft claimed he was owed thousands of ethics of his agency at the Leveson Inquiry, early VR digital techniques. I took light during the boat trip. This is a chosen guests and took their picture. 1) Natasha Richardson died in 2009 following a head injury sustained during a skiing lesson 2001, and her twin girls, Susan and pounds. Independent assessors, instructed where he said he could only ‘vaguely’ recall CAMERA: Leica M6 the images to be able to put them happy celebratory time with Paul Kate Moss met Henry Kissinger. LENS: Summicron 28mm f2.8 lens in Quebec, Canada Samuelle, who were born to a surrogate by RSM, set the value of the library, which paying out £58,000 damages to together into a more encompassing Newman, Natasha Richardson and Salman Rushdie met Padma 2) One of the highlights for some spectators FILM: Fuji 400 ASA colour was watching the increasingly irritated A-listers Source: New York Times “picture. I used Fuji 400 ASA colour Lauren Bacall enjoying the boat Lakshmi. Tina Brown joked about mother in 2005. contains some five million images, at zero. and Liz Hurley. He said he could not remember www.dafjones.com having to await the standard Transit Authority RSM said a liquidation would only have only an incident where one of his photographers’ film in a rangefinder Leica M6 with a journey and anticipating the party being an immigrant who had arrived shuttle boat service back to Manhattan at the realised £50,500 before costs. car struck ’s, after which she Summicron 28mm f2.8 lens. ahead. It is now tinged with tragedy on the Concorde. Madonna was there end of the event. sought an injunction against the company. It Lyons, who formed the company in 2002, also emerged that a secret source at Virgin has returned to , where he told local Atlantic gave Big Pictures tip offs about DIGIBOX press he is considering running for mayor of celebrity travel arrangements, including VIDEO NEWS his home town, . He said he had those of Princess Beatrice. Source: Media Guardian A VINTAGE LEICA MAKES £1.2 MILLION BEST FREE APP TO DATE ELEMENTARY MY DEAR Device Locator (£1.86) allows the AT AUCTION c Camera Awesome (for iPhone c iPhones (and high-end laptops) phone owner to track the location and iPad, FREE) developed by the are now a familiar tool for of a misplaced iPhone and take a David Douglas Duncan used his Leica picture-sharing website SmugMug, photographers since numerous photo which is then sent to a 1,800m² VENUE M3D-2 while covering combat zones for has a variety of grids to help line-up add-ons enhance the picture website where the photo can be Life magazine. Just four of the model shots, image stabilisation, a burst making experience. However, viewed. This app also allows the M3D-2 were ever produced. A selection of mode for shooting multiple pictures statistics reveal 170 iPhones are user to trigger an audible alarm FOR SCIENCE MUSEUM Vietnam War images taken at Khe Sanh in and a wealth of editing options. Tap stolen every day in London. Now, on the phone. Currently being BASED ON the 2nd floor of the Science A collaboration between the National Media 1968 were also included when it sold at once to upload photos and videos various apps allow owners to track upgraded to conform to Apple PUSSY RIOT VID CENSORED two-year prison sentences for DARKNESS FALLS Museum, Media Space, a £4m capital project, Museum (Bradford) and the Science Museum the Westlicht Auction in Vienna. The to , Twitter, Instagram, their missing equipment. app store regs. Four videos made by the feminist ‘hooliganism motivated by religious Photographer and lecturer, Robert Burley, will comprise of a 500m² exhibition space, a (London), with Principal Founding Sponsor Leica was made specifically for press YouTube, SmugMug and Flickr. Or device-locator.com punk protest group Pussy Riot hatred’. A third member, Yekaterina captured the 2007 demolition of the Kodak 290m² flexible studio for installations and Virgin Media and Principal Founding Donor photographers who liked their light weight, let auto-sharing do it for you. iGotYa is a third-party app, has caused the Zamoskvorechye Samutsevich, was freed after a buildings in Rochester, New York. His events, and a café/bar. It will showcase the Dana & Albert R Broccoli Foundation, Media fast and near silent operation. made by Cyndia, as an alternative GadgetTrak (£2.48) can generate District Court in Moscow to declare court suspended her sentence on personal project has recorded the empty National Photography Collection and the first Space has also received donations or Touch just once for perfect pictures. to Apple’s free Find My iPhone location reports, send discreet that all websites that do not appeal. Samutsevich told journalists dark rooms and abandoned chemical mixing exhibition, Revelations: Experiments in artworks, including Ed Burtynsky, Luc Duncan, now 96-years-old, is best known Pull down the top tab for tools; software (which shows a stolen messages to the device and also remove the Pussy Riot material ‘the culture of protest is very plants in factories from Canada to ; Photography, will explore contemporary Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Mary McCartney for his action photographs as well as his choose different effects that will phone’s approximate location on take a photo of the thief. Aimed will face administrative penalties, important for any country, especially desolate images that chart the crumbling artists’ responses to scientific photography and Taryn Simon. work with close friend Pablo Picasso. The automatically apply to photos you a map but does not take a picture originally at laptops (Mac & including fines up to 100,000 Russia’. Oleg Kozyrev is a camera film industry destroyed almost from 1850 to 1920, and a broad spectrum of Leica was sold to a private collector. take. The magic wand opens up of its user). iGotYa does and is Windows) like all these gizmos it roubles (£2,000). One video shows Moscow-based opposition blogger. overnight by the digital revolution. In a final photographers including William Henry Fox Hannah Redler has recently been appointed The world auction record for a camera thousands of amazing effects that activated when a wrong passcode requires wi-fi to function properly. a performance at Moscow’s main ‘Whatever you think about these turn photos into art with 36 free is entered into the phone Based in Portland, Oregon, the Russian Orthodox cathedral that videos, they have become a part gesture of defiance, Burley shot the series Talbot, Joris Jansen, Eadweard Muybridge, Head of Media Space and the Science is £1.81 million paid for one of around presets, filters, textures and keypad. Compatible with iPhone, makers claim a high (80%+) protested about President Vladimir of the history of this country,’ on a powerful 4x5 field camera. Harold Edgerton, Sarah Pickering, Clare Strand, Museum Arts Programme. It will open to the 25 prototype Leica 0-Series models frames. Well, pretty awesome iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS recovery rate of stolen devices Putin’s rule. Kozyrev says, ‘just as in old times, Source: AP Etienne-Jules Marey and Hiroshi Sugimoto. public in June 2013. from 1923. alright. Available on the 4.0 or later. in the USA. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda we burned books. Now we are Source: AP Source: Science Museum App Store. itunes.apple.com www.gadgettrak.com Tolokonnikova are now serving deleting video clips.’

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1 Don McCullin (right) at Arles Photo

ARLES PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Don McCullin was a guest of the management and a celebrity EDWIN LAND - VISIONARY presence at this key photo-world extravaganza. Seen here with IN 1970, Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid Alex (grandson of the Mayoress and the inventor of the cult Polaroid SX-70, of Tarascon). Tate supremo Nicolas gave a speech: ‘We are still a long way,’ he Serota was in evidence scoping out said, ‘from the camera that... you would use photography (and coincidentally had as often as your pencil or your eyeglasses.’ been in Penzance only days earlier It was going to be effortless: Point, shoot, see. visiting local photography spaces). Nothing mechanical would come between McCullin, David and Jacqui Morris’s you and the image you wanted. The gesture documentary feature film on the would be as simple as – and here he British photographer, is released in demonstrated it, reaching into his coat – taking a wallet out of your breast pocket, the UK on 1 January 2013. holding it up and pressing a button. The wallet (Charles Roff) he pulled out was black and oblong, and when you see him hold it vertically in front of his eye, it’s an uncannily familiar gesture. FIVE DAYS IS A LONG TIME IN CYBERSPACE When the Polaroid Land camera was 1 1 SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN Byker: Space Hopper 1971 introduced in 1948 – made possible by a Do they – don’t they? SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN Byker Revisited series of breakthroughs, particularly in a Kevin Systrom, co-founder of process known as diffusion-transfer reversal Instagram, issued a public documentary”, collaborations with ‘The show is at an art fair and is only – ‘pictures in a minute’ were an instant apology to more than 100 million the subjects, whereas the originals on for a week, so it is peculiar in that success. Steve Jobs called Land ‘a national members and pledged to notify any future were pure, candid shots. One of my sense. They all produce their own treasure’. changes in advance. ‘I want to be really clear: favourites is an image called Space work and send it to PHOTO50. The Instagram has no intention of selling your A CYCLICAL POEM Hopper.’ size, the framing, the presentation is Land retired in 1982, Polaroid declared photos, and we never did. We don’t own your all down to the photographers and bankruptcy in 2001 and again in 2009. The photos – you do,’ he said after 5-day outcry. A key feature at the London Art Fair 2013 will again be PHOTO50. But of course the overwhelming trend gallerists involved. Everyone has current trademark holders, The Impossible today is for the manipulated image been extremely co-operative. Has it This year the curatorial baton has been passed to Nick Hackworth, and the fusion between painting and worked? Ask me when it’s all over!’ Project, are now putting the Polaroid name on Instagram angered members by amending NAT GEO’S WINDFALL photography where photo-based a broad range of consumer electronics and a its terms and conditions to give it ‘perpetual’ former critic and one of London’s most innovative independent imagery has been ‘appropriated’ by NOTES nifty line of pocket-size printers. SMALL SELECTION of the massive ($178,900); Edward S. Curtis’ 40-volume rights to the photographs that users share on gallerists. the fine artist. Hackworth’s direction Artists featured include: Sirkka-Liisa Source: Wall Street Journal National Geographic Society photo documentary The North American the website and also allowed advertisers to with PHOTO50 coincidentally erased Konttinen, Brian Griffin, Marketa archive – 240 pieces spanning Indian ($902,500); and Herbert Ponting’s use the photos and information of members any debate over the ‘purity’ of the Luskacova, Paul Hill, Dorothy Bohm, the late 1800’s to the present – 100-year-old gelatine silver print, Iceberg ‘without any compensation’. Boss outfits, N 2012 Sue Steward set a young, contemporary artists with a photographs embraced. And the Chris Steele-Perkins. Awas sold at Christie’s in December making Antarctica, which sold for the artist’s best such as National Geographic magazine, benchmark for the focus of this loose interpretation on ‘photography’, mode of presentation has been by £2.3 million ($3.8 million). Best known ($37,500). announced they would stop using Instagram feature section of the annual and it being expanded into other areas. and large directed by the exhibitors To hear Sue Steward discuss her 2012 today for its high-end photography, early services. Facebook bought Instagram Islington Art Fair. Avoiding Sue’s interpretation was about the (following a little guidance by Photo50 feature go to f22 VIDEOS at magazines were filled with commissioned National Geographic Magazine reaches 8.8 (launched in 2010) for $715m, reportedly the obvious, crowd pleasing physical ‘making’ of imagery. I did the curator). www.state-media.com/f22 options of exhibiting big name, have a selection of mid-career artwork. million people worldwide in 36 countries beating off a Twitter bid. Facebook is fashionable and familiar images, female photographers in mind, just ‘The selection of photographers PHOTO 50 at London Art Fair at BDC and 27 languages. The society informs desperate to find ways to increase revenue I she decided to examine the esoteric showcasing four of them, but in the has tended to dictate that there is Islington, 16-20 January 2013 Star attractions were Newell Convers millions more through its National by exploiting members data following interpretations possible with the end this other concept emerged. little or no post production evident. Wyeth’s painting The Duel on the Beach Geographic TV channel, books and other catastrophic falls in its share price. capture of light and chemical reaction, We are dealing with documentary LINKS ($1,082,500); Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl media. Source: Reuters Source AP/Telegraph and leaping beyond the concept of ‘We called the event A Cyclical Poem. photographers who began their Paradise Row Gallery 1 the photographic print. A hard act to I became interested in the notion of careers in the 60’s and 70’s and www.paradiserow.com (l-r) Orwa Nyrabia and , Mirsad Purivatra, follow, Nick Hackworth has risen to photography and time – not so much quite a lot of the images are from a director of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival, and Jeremy Irons. the challenge with a provocative and the Cartier-Bresson ‘decisive moment’ pre-digital age. Some are still using 5 CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS dynamic exhibition inspired by a quote and the freezing of an instant – film in fact.

GB. ENGLAND. Northampton. SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL from Percy Bysshe Shelley: They are but in the relationship of a human Funeral of my mother with my brother What a city, a melting pot of talent, MAN RAY AT NPG the episodes of that cyclical poem to the time of their own lifespan. 5 Thein and sister Seyna. 2001 DOROTHY BOHM Montage

a mass of indie films and open air written by Time upon the memories Photography as memory, as a The first museum exhibition to focus on Man Ray’s photographic of men (1821). mnemonic. It has crystallised projections going on late into the portraiture will include over 150 vintage prints taken between 1916 balmy nights. The presentation of the NICK HACKWORTH Photo by Jeremy Hutchison into eight to ten documentary and 1968. PHOTO50 garners a lot of attention, ( photographers, all of whom have had Katrin Cartlidge Foundation award to not least from the fine art sector, a long career – I think the youngest is Syrian filmmakers, Diana El Jeiroudi DRAWN FROM private collections and major Ady Fidelin, and his last muse and wife, and Hackworth, as a gallery director ‘I ended up with in his late 50’s – through to Dorothy and Orwa Nyrabia, was made by museums, the majority of the works have Juliet Browner. himself, has volunteered for not a an exhibition very Bohm, who was born in 1924. We Jeremy Irons. Nyrabia was later not previously been exhibited in the UK. The little personal exposure by accepting different to what have looked at their practice and detained by Syrian security services photographic portraits of cultural figures Philadelphia-born Man Ray (1890-1976) the hot seat. There was a six month picked images from throughout and friends include Marcel Duchamp, was instrumental in developing and gestation period in which to focus I first envisaged.’ their whole career span. in but released after a his thoughts. Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean producing a type of photogram which he ( NICK HACKWORTH campaign by more than a hundred ‘For example, in 1969 Finnish Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, called ‘Rayographs’. Curated by the National international filmmakers including ‘I run a contemporary gallery so I am artist, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, did a James Joyce, Erik Satie, Henri Matisse, Portrait Gallery’s Terence Pepper, the Martin Scorsese, , always on display personally. But the ‘This commission came in the late celebrated series of images of Byker Barbette, Igor Stravinsky, Yves Tanguy, exhibition will run from 7 February - 27 May photo specialists will have a view and Summer (2012) so there was a couple in Newcastle. She went back recently Richard Linklater, Annemarie Jacir, Salvador Dalí, Le Corbusier, Virginia Woolf, 2013, and tour to the Scottish National that was an area of concern in the of months to think about it. Bringing to revisit this project and we show Judd Apatow, and Costa Gavras, and Aldous Huxley, Coco Chanel and Wallis Portrait Gallery from 22 June - beginning, and you have to do what the show together was relatively easy examples side by side. Originally she an international media outcry. Simpson. Also on show will be portraits of 8 September, and the Pushkin Museum, you believe in. I ended up with an but my ideas changed from August was living within the Byker community (Charles Roff) his lovers Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin) Moscow from 14 October 2013 - exhibition very different to what I to September. The idea is the most but latterly she was an outsider so and Lee Miller, who was also his assistant, 9 January 2014. www.npg.org.uk first envisaged. important thing. I toyed with showing the recent works were more “staged

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN BERLIN: FOTO & FETISCH The presentation and expanding horizons of the breed continues to use conceptual and theoretical photographer as fine artist is common currency positions to assail the established master class. within the galleries of Europe. Where the new And Berlin today is no different. OPINION GEORGINA TURNER

BARK, he said. I beg your But, overwhelmingly, it erects stereotypes pardon? I thought. He was of beauty and maintains a status quo of small, slightly drunk and – desire. This is particularly the case of pho- oh – French. Bach, he tographers coming from the luxurious meant. It was an astute heights of fashion, such as Helmut Newton. aesthetic judgment. These photographs ‘I see no point in photographing architecture were visual Bach. There was a sprightly unless there is a nude – a female nude – serenity about them. Light behaves like a involved. I love women. I adore them’, pencil, the image is a delicate interplay of Helmut Newton tells Bernard Pivot and curves and lines – a teasing feast for an Susan Sontag, in a hilarious encounter of inquiring eye. unmet minds, on French television's Johanna Breede was exhibiting forty-odd Apostrophes. (Susan Sontag informs him he platinum/palladium prints by Jens Knigge, is a misogynist). And indeed, at the Helmut (Synergie der Künste), photographs taken Newton Foundation we have nudes, female, at two monasteries, Le Thoronet and La little else actually. You get to eat your cake Tourette, some as large as 50 x 60 cm straight away, as you enter the lobby and (that's large for a platinum print). The face five very big images of immaculate, platinum/palladium print process enables a nude fashion models. There is no sweat tonal range and haptic grasp of light, which to their toil, no howling wolf beneath their delivers detail beyond what the naked eye un-furrowed brows, no smear on their can actually see. The surface textures of massaged, bouncy bodies. And they stone and concrete were magnified, offering 1 Helmut Newton Foundation: you enter the lobby to face five very big images of immaculate, nude fashion models seem ever so willing, strapping, and very us what T.S. Eliot would call ‘too much reality’. expensive. In contrast, Le Thoronet is a homegrown East . This was part of a large The craft and skill of this expensive process heaven for humble monks: simple and prefabricated concrete block housing estate Berlin is also known for its sexy poverty. (the development solution contains 5g practical, relying on local stone, human- built between 1966 and 1985 to house It cultivates a cesspit of proud and of platinum per 2ml, and platinum costs scale, unpretentious. The building today 32,000 residents, catering for the dynamic haranguing creatifs. On 4 September 2012, £25 per gram) comes in the matching of is comfortably time-worn, still solid and industrial development then at full throttle. Berlin lost its peak grunge spot with the final paper, negative and solution. But whether worthy. But it is part of a phoney medieval Akin to the Gorbals, Glasgow, or Parkhill, closure, after 22 years, of the Kunsthaus photography is art or not depends on the revival, its spirituality is as useful as Sheffield. Luckily, Jens Knigge is like a Tacheles (‘Straight Talking’ Art House) and artist and concerns composition, curiosity Prozac, glib with self-righteousness and German Clint Eastwood with added muscle its 9000 square metres of street art, bead and choice. Here, Knigge's mix concerns a consumerist tourism. and height, so he was able to hold his own, jewellery and freak sex exhibitions. The contrast of concrete and stone, two different and to develop an interest in concrete. Polish Abnormals Gallery, for example, aptly architectural credos, and one function: In the same way as scientists are the ‘Concrete is a consistent thread in my work. held its final nude photography exhibition religious retreat. housewives of knowledge, so architects I am impressed by the wide possibilities there before moving to China, where they tend to be the designers of function. As a it offers. My work is mostly based on feel they will be safer, less persecuted and Le Corbusier's ultra intellectualism takes result, photographs of architectural build- architecture, but not as pure documentation. threatened, than in Berlin. Compared to shape in La Tourette. An epitome of late ings are too often of a constant fashion: The focus is more on the sculptural Helmut Newton, they are bad, narcissistic, Modernism, the building draws inspiration shots taken at an angle that extenuates impression of the building.’ toying creatures, courting controversy with from its sweeping and uneven landscape, size, enhances a purity of lines, and asserts their pushy, provocative tastes. Their artists the purism of Mondrian, the order of a minimalism that courts vases rather than Photography might rarely match the are the beyondest of extremes: Exilentia Xenakis, the versatile strength of concrete. books. It is a relief, therefore, to return to an emotional impact of a painting, such as a Exiff, Joybringer, Max Papeschi, for example. Yes, it's a lot for a building to live up to, but expertise of light with the architectural meaty Soutine for example, although it can Papeschi covered the corner facade of the it works because Le Corbusier was so able. photographs of Jens Knigge: there is no capture a moment and thereby hold on to a building with his huge abnormal nude Whereas Duchamp plays chess, Le cheating here but artful contrast, of form memory. It can focus a vision, sharpen a contribution: an ever-grinning Mickey Corbusier invents it. and texture, minutely exposed. So what is definition of the visual, such as Man Ray's Mouse head attached to a female nude real? Use your eyes, those fervent spies on images of Lee Miller's neck. It can report, body lying before a Nazi symbol. Nasty, 7 Helmut Newton reality. And this is where the platinum provide documentation on the social, on bland, bad, went the connotations... Self-Portrait with Wife & Models, Paris, 1981 process does lend you its ears – because of upheavals, on our mundane quotidian. It can Rue Aubriot, for French Vogue, Paris, 1975 the tonal range and defined edge it allows. retort by mimesis, such as the metaphors of NOTES Courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation Contemplation is the appropriate calling. Georges Bataille. It can play with illusion, www.johanna-breede.com Knigge grew up in Block 7, Entrance 5, Flat ethereality, disguise surreal plights. And www.helmutnewton.com Jens Knigge www.jens-knigge.com Platinum/palladium prints Number 552, in Jena-Lobeda, Thuringia, much more.

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and photography. Does anything faze Jules Wright? TEXT MIKE VON JOEL

OCATED IN Wapping Wall, the partying there is one elusive person every Born in Melbourne though brought up in Prospect of Whitby (formerly guest is trying to snatch a moment with – Adelaide, Julie Wright originally studied the Pelican) claims to be the a slight figure with flaming red hair and Educational Psychology but diverted to oldest riverside tavern in enigmatic smile passing effortlessly theatre studies as a Commonwealth London, dating from around through the crush. Jules Wright is the Scholar at the University of Bristol, extend- 1520. Views from this pub were owner, creator and artistic director of the ing this to a PhD examining links between Lsketched by both Turner and Whistler, Wapping Project – acknowledged today psychology, performance and place. Her whilst the writers Charles Dickens and as one of the most dynamic arts venues life changing moment came in 1978, when Samuel Pepys were customers – as was in the UK – and she is in her element. Clare Venables (the infamous Joan the notorious ‘hanging’ Judge Jeffreys. Littlewood’s successor) asked her to start

1 Annabel Elgar Wapping Project installation On the opposite side of the road is a Three years after the Bourdin party, as Assistant Director at the Theatre Royal in discrete steel doorway. and 12 years since the Wapping Project Stratford East. Julie became Jules, and it

One particular summer evening this officially opened, Jules Wright leans back was the launch of an effervescent theatre portal is being guarded by a tall and in her office chair, flashes that engaging career that rapidly encompassed Resident glamorous blonde girl ( Director of the Royal Court with a clipboard, valiantly (1981); Artistic Director keeping an enthusiastic ‘Although legendary in the arts arena, roles at the Theatre crowd at bay. It is a scene today the wider public knows Jules Wright Upstairs at the Royal Court, reminiscent of New York’s the Women’s Playhouse Studio 54 in its heyday. ( through the Wapping Project’ Trust, and the Liverpool And the cause of such Playhouse; and then excitement? It is the access to a smile, and declares herself tired. Really Deputy Artistic Director at the Royal Court 1 Installation View of Wapping Bankside Gallery preview party for the late French fashion tired. ‘I work all the time and now (until 1992). photographer, Guy Bourdin, at the Wapping desperately need a proper holiday. I have a Project(1), a red hot arts venue secreted passion for Burma now that it is accessible. Although legendary in the arts arena, today away behind the high, ivy covered wall. Especially during the monsoon – you have the wider public knows Jules Wright through Once inside, the building is buzzing to such silly little rain here in the UK,’ she the Wapping Project – her development overflow, with guests including Natalie sighs with just a trace of her original of a semi-derelict, Grade II Thames side Portman, Bourdin muse Nicole Meyer, Australian accent. Maybe even the Gods pumping station, built in 1890 and Bryan Ferry and Mike Figgis; artists who have acquiesced to this feisty director of decommissioned in 1977. Ms Wright looks look as if they have just stepped out of the performing and theatre arts and brought askance. She has recounted this story a studio, and fashionistas who look as if they the monsoons to Britain – for she is thousand times, but her genial Australian have just stepped out of a private jet. All adept at making her dreams come true. temperament allows yet another telling. amazed by the 32 previously unseen Nevertheless, it has been a long, ‘In 1991 I was scouting for a film location Bourdin images, blown up in oversized exhaustive journey from Adelaide, [in some versions it is for an extension for formats, the on-trend music, the light South Australia, via a sojourn in Bristol the Women’s Playhouse Trust] when the effects and expansive hospitality in this so her then husband (she married at 19) chief of the Docklands Development cavernous, awe-inspiring former hydraulic could take up a job and avoid the Corporation, Eric Sorensen, showed me the 7 Jules Wright at the Wapping Project Ed Sykes pumping station. But amidst the mad Vietnam War. power station. I now think their secret plan

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was to let it fall down and then build flats. It retaining evidence of its former industrial screamed “this is the worst restaurant I saw the open door was just flapping in everything. It’s actually why some creative energies to movie-making (‘you might very, very successful – so now they love it 1 Left to right was love at first sight. I imagined myself as role. Although this came at a price, and she have been to in my life” – it was mayhem! the wind. I thought “this empty space is people fail – or simply leave. For instance, remember I directed Daniel Craig’s first and want to show it in New York. Everyone Susan Meiselas

a London version of Peter Brook with his has been quoted as claiming that ‘...just to It makes me laugh when I think about it.’ speaking to me” – so I decided I’ve just got I found it particularly difficult at the film, The Rover, with Andy Serkis and said: but I thought Tumi was a baggage Client Lounge 1995 (3) Bouffes du Nord in Paris and so we initially rebuild the top of the tower cost £250,000 to do it. Harry Handelsman owns the Liverpool Playhouse in spite of support Dougray Scott for the BBC in 1994’). As company in shopping malls? Paolo Roversi

made it into an ad-hoc performance space. because we had to get bricks made at the But over ten years of sustained effort and a building so I don’t have any restrictions. It from Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell. In the luxury luggage brand Tumi discovered ‘Julian Schnabel is an interesting case. Guinevere in yellow dress Paris, 1996 That was back in 1993. original kiln up in Yorkshire’. total submersion in programming the is a great location aside from the parking...’ 1991 I did turn down an invitation to run when they commissioned Jules Wright to I loved The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Deborah Turbeville ‘Financially, it would not be possible ( the Sydney Opera House, but there is one create a presentation for the launch of about Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. Milan Train Station 1978 today – the world is harder and a lot more Launched in 2009, Wapping Project/ big job that would tempt me back in – the their new collaboration with designer, Schnabel is an artist who is making films wily. It’s only 20 years ago but so much ‘People stood up and screamed “this Bankside shows lens-based art and South Bank. I love it there and it would Dror Benshetrit. for everybody. It is all feasible. That’s what Elina Brotherus has changed. Nowadays people would is the worst restaurant I have been to represents a tight stable of photographers, bring all my passions together in one role.’ interests me now – a full-length feature Portrait of a couple 2007 understand the potential immediately. The all hand-picked by Jules herself. Whereas No doubt envisaging an art installation film. I mean – it is all do-able you know.’ Jeffrey Stockbridge Wapping Project was a moment in time – in my life” – it was mayhem! ’ Wapping is a not-for-profit operation, this Today, the good news is that Jules Wright’s for Milan’s prestigious Salone del Mobile 42nd and Spring Garden no.1 2008 ( NOTES and you have to seize the moment. is a decidedly commercial gallery selling creative lacuna is over. She has a new extravaganza, what they got was ‘I turned into a lunatic property developer The focus for five years had been on Wapping Project space has taken a toll on artworks. The original ten artists(4) have passion (a favourite word) for the Wapping Passaggio, a mystery movie. A dark, 1. The Wapping Project. Wapping Wall. London E1W 3SG overnight. We needed four million pounds getting the ‘job done’ so, typically, Wright Wright and the last 18 months has seen now been supplemented by Nelli Palomäki Project and is making plans for two major surreal thriller that begins in Cambridge 2. Wapping Project/Bankside gallery. 65a Hopton Street. to do it – and it’s not that difficult actually. had not given much thought to the her very disillusioned with it, not to mention of Finland and in only three years events this year in the performance space: then races across Europe, shot on location London SE1 9LR We had a rehearsal space in Islington that financial nuts and bolts of actually being an amenable divorce from Joshua. Yet Bankside’s reputation is such that last a staging of Macbeth; and Anton Chekhov’s in France, England, Austria, Switzerland 3. Harry Handelsman of the Manhattan Loft Company we sold with planning permission; the responsible for such mammoth space. She even in the midst of a creative hiatus, year they had been invited to Tokyo(5), Three Sisters. For Wright, Macbeth has and Italy – a girl, her fate in jeopardy yet 4. Lillian Bassman, Elina Brotherus, Annabel Elgar, Peter LDDC let us get planning permission to had in mind a restaurant along the lines of nothing can keep this irrepressible expenses paid, for their first attendance at been an unresolved challenge since her last her secrets safe in her Tumi suitcase. And Marlow, Edgar Martins, Susan Meiselas, Stephen J Morgan, develop a bit of land on the back of the the River Café as a means to generate cash Australian down. The office chair she a major art fair. Actual sales to museums 1987 staging in Edinburgh, where she felt this to promote a new line in luggage! Paolo Roversi, Jeffrey Stockbridge, Deborah Turbeville. Wapping site which we then sold on for flow, and previous experience had made lounges in is not located in Wapping, but at are also on the increase. It is a far different there were things that could be improved Jules Wright allows another naughty, 5. Tokyo Photo 2012. 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2012 £1.2 million. Add to this cash from English her wary of franchises – where you ‘watch her photographic gallery right next door to world to the public sector where Wright has upon. And, surprisingly, she has never mischievous smile to light up her face. 6. National awards include: Plays and Players (1983); Heritage, the LDDC itself and various other the money walk out the door’. Extensive the Tate Modern(2). This has to be one of spent most of her career. directed a Chekhov before. The reinvigorated ‘It ended up very dark – a murder Time Out, City Limits and Plays and Players (1984); sources and we made it.’ press coverage ensured people turned up most desirable sites for a gallery in ‘I have spent a life in the arts fundraising, ambition for Wapping has also enabled mystery. I mean, what are you going to Olivier/SWET Awards and Evening Standard (1985); John The freehold was finally secured in 1998 in that first week but they were far from London, so how did she manage to beat off staging gala events and dealing with lack- her to revisit schemes for a hotel and do with a suitcase? But you travel with a Whiting Award (1986); Samuel Beckett and George Devine Awards (1988); Evening Standard and Sydney Critics’ and the Wapping Project opened officially ready and the restaurant light years away the competition this time around? of-money issues and boards of directors. ‘something’ to do with the Thames River. suitcase. I put lots of tiny thriller film joke Circle (1990); BBC Opera (1992). in 2000. Intimately involved at all stages of from the hot ticket it is today. ‘Remember Lehmans’ went down in Those boards are a clique and the But as if owning a cult arts venue and a references in it (The Third Man wheel in this was Jules’ architect husband Joshua ‘It is crazy, but I had never given a 2008. The recession was on. It was a individuals move around within all the big trending photography gallery were not Vienna, an old Day of the Jackal Peugeot in NOTES (6) Wright, whose Shed 54 practise redesigned thought to what would happen the day contemporary furniture shop and they just institutions. They make the appointments enough for this award-winning Australian , Paris). I’ll never forget Tumi’s faces when www.thewappingproject.com the site, paying particular attention to after we opened. People stood up and disappeared overnight! I live very near and and really have the final word on absolutely she is now devoting her considerable they saw the first screening! But it was www.thewappingprojectbankside.com

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1 Fiona Tan Vox Populi London (Detail) 2012 1 Frith Street Gallery (London)

TYPOLOGIES 1 Adi Nes Untitled (The Village) 1 Sommer Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv) o INDEED, photo-typologies have become something of a tradition. London DOCUMENTARY is the focus of the fifth and final o DOCUMENTARY photography was pre- 1 Lucas Blalock Untitled 2012 1 1 instalment of Indonesian-born, valent at Frieze, but rarely straightforward. Teresa Margolles El Testigo 2011 Ramiken Crucible (NYC & LA) Australian-raised Dutch artist Fiona Tan’s The 13 images of a fictional village in Adi 1 Peter Kilchmann (Zurich) Vox Populi series, in which she borrows Nes’s project (now on view at the Jewish DIGITAL ALTERATION photo albums – themselves an Museum in Camden) stage archetypal LANDSCAPE o IT MAY BE common enough to edit digitally increasingly nostalgic item – in a given scenes with mythic and art historical o WHILST PLENTY of photographs still these days, but it is rarely a prominent city, scans a sample of images and echoes as – in his words ‘a metaphor for 1 show the classic subjects as landscape, feature of the work. Young LA-based Lucas arranges them by theme. Here a spread Israel as a small place built after a great John Stezaker Still from Horse 2012 Galerie Gisela Capitain (Cologne) portrait and still life, they tend to Blalock does foreground his process, of 250 (recently shown at The tragedy’. The scenes focus on moments incorporate a back-story. It’s easy to making images which treat camera and Photographer’s Gallery) made for an on the cusp of something happening: thus CONCEPTUAL PLAY suspect that’s the case when Teresa computer as equal tools. The ‘Frame’ 1 Karel Funk Untitled #56 2012 303 Gallery (New York) addictive collective portrait raising such villagers prepare to shoot at an unseen o AMONG WORKS using photography for they flash by life-size at a rate of 24 per Margolles takes a picture, as she’s worked section for new galleries included his post- questions as: how do our underlying target, soldiers are about to tell a mother primarily conceptual ends, a sequenced second in a sort of reversal of Muybridge’s as an autopsist and typically refers to the Cubist doubling of a woman with fan, an rituals change over time? What that her soldier son died in action and – collage of 3,600 horses standing still use of serial photography to analyse violent happenings in the Mexican drug image in which pink rubbers took on a PAINTERS USE PHOTOGRAPHY distinguishes this as London rather than as shown at Frieze – a young man in a constituted the first film by the 2012 their movement. Soon the ever-morphing capital of Ciudad Juárez. So it proves here, sculptural presence, and this once-bare o OF COURSE painters in turn use photographs in many ways, most obviously as a tool Tan’s previously-covered Norway, Sydney, symbolically dark and flooded space is Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Winner backgrounds take centre stage, as what may look an unassuming tree on tree, to which Blalock added an improbable towards hyper-realist work. Canadian Karel (say ‘Carl’) Funk paints half a dozen exacting Tokyo and Switzerland? How is the set to interact with representations of the John Stezaker, who sourced them, in suggesting the horse as indicator of social a beautiful day proves to be from a set of profusion of dying leaves to form, perhaps, heads per year. They’re based on his own multiple photographs of the subject, which he personal changed by being made public? Three Fates who will control his destiny. typical fashion, from old yearbooks of standing, of a place in the world, as much images depicting locations at which an arboreal protest against deforestation. investigates through hundreds of semi-translucent layers of acrylic. Typically, Untitled #56 the British Race Horse Association. Posed as for itself. murders are said to have occurred. catches the spiritual intensity of renaissance portraiture, but avoids any direct engagement Also seen: Also seen: Nan Goldin, Xu Zhen similarly enough to call to mind the Also: Thomas Ruff, Scott King between subject and viewer. That switches our attention to the abstract qualities, and to Hans-Peter Feldmann, Zoe Leonard typographical approach of the Bechers, Also: Shannon Ebner, Thomas Demand Also: Florian Maier-Aichen, Carlos Garaicoa the implications of an unknowable inner life. Also: Mustafa Hulusi, David Brian Smith PHOTOGRAPHSPHOTOGRAPHS ANDAND BEYONDBEYOND Famed contemporary art beano, Frieze, provides an interesting snapshot of trending directions in image making. Last October, 1 Josephine Pryde SCALE XIII 2011 the photograph and its derivatives were still 1 Seung Yul Oh The Ability to Blow Themselves Up 2012 1 1 Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York) 1 Marilyn Minter Honeydew 2012 Jonathan Owen Untitled 2012 1 ONE AND J. Gallery (Seoul) 1 Salon 94 (New York) 1 Ingleby Gallery (Edinburgh) omnipresent on the art world stage. THE STATUS DOING THINGS TO PHOTOS TEXT PAUL CAREY-KENT All images courtesy and ©the artists and/or galleries listed. RECORDS OF PERFORMANCE THE PAINTER’S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PHOTOGRAPH o EDINBURGH-BASED Liverpudlian o THERE WERE plenty of examples of o IT’S OFTEN interesting to see how o NOT A FEW photographers used their Jonathan Owen uses a rubber to subvert HERE WAS less photographic length of a walk-along audio track). photography as a record of artistic painters use photographs at an angle to work to explore the status and photographs found in books – but not only work at Frieze than usual, Even among the more traditionally performance. One of the freshest was their primary practice. Marilyn Minter characteristics of the medium itself. does he delicately remove part of the but still enough to ensure presented images there was New Zealand-based Korean Seung Yul came to prominence – relatively late – The viewers were the guinea pigs, too, image, he manages the erasure so that the Oh’s four colourful portraits of people through her scaled-up paintings based in Berlin-based English photographer ghostly traces of remaining ink form a quite that predictions the tremendous variety, and it’s probably largely obscured by the balloons he’d on her own photographs of intensely Josephine Pryde’s use of the reassuringly distinct image layered into the original. physical photograph would easier to summarise what there asked them to blow up. They were rendered details such as feet, lips and furry animals – seen frolicking in the left- You might think of it as the obsessive disappear with digitalisation wasn’t: little narrative, not much exhibited alongside a rapid-cut film in eyelashes. She deconstructs the male overs of an art installation – to contrast artisanal equivalent to hacking a computer are far from being proved pure fantasy – almost everything which the balloons burst with magnified fetishisation which substitutes part for with the starker and more severe aesthetic programme so that it still operates, yet right. As if to emphasise that physicality, was grounded in the real – and sound and to the copious surprise of the whole and yet plays the glamour both 1 Zanele Muholi Mini Mbatha Durban, Glebelands, Jan 2010 Stevenson (/Johannesburg) normally associated with the documentary delivers a different result. Here he removes Tthere was lots of ‘doing things to hardly any camera-less product puffers. Party games perhaps, but with ways. The photographs have taken on an photographic sequence. Does Pryde mean PORTRAITS a large part of a lounging woman in favour photos’: cutting and collaging them, (darkroom abstractions, photograms implications of sexual climax and increasing life of their own, and – as in to uncover the menace in cuteness of the sofa’s leaf pattern, and then suicide bombing, they made for an edgily this face fractured into multiple small o PEOPLE REMAIN at the heart of much photographic work. South African Zanele Muholi, through their titular scale (over three feet with drawing achieves the gentlest of painting on them, half-burning them and the like). amusing installation. Balloons, by the inversions behind liquid and glass – are who featured in the recent Documenta, is a lesbian activist who highlights the black high)? Or to criticise the disproportionate dismemberments. (Douglas Gordon) or combining them There are many ways to categorise way, emerged as something of a photo- becoming ever-more abstract as she queer community for whom Beulahs is slang for beauties. She herself is responsible for attention we give to keeping – and in unusual ways (Geoffrey Farmer what was on view, but here are some theme of their own, with Scott King and exploits her audience’s recognition the subjects' fashion looks in this particular group of portraits. The use of combs as posting online pictures of – such sweetly Also doing things to photos: rotated them in a pot, Tris Vonna- trends which, incidentally, span every Juergen Teller also focusing on them. factor to push the style further. headdresses of a sort makes assertive sense – how circular and yet how convenient; anthropomorphic pets? Meredith Sparks, Henrik Olesen Michell fanned them out along the continent. and what a neat way to play the game of regulation (of hair and more) while undermining Also: Mika Rottenberg, Paul McCarthy Also seen: Thomas Zipp, Gunther Förg it with subversive spirit. Also seen: Pierre Gonnord, Rashid Johnson Also: Roe Ethridge, Christopher Williams

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PROJECT: BLACK ROCK DESERT, NEVADA Everything about it is complicated. When we ‘It could have been something out of a ( got our tickets in the lottery I was really thrilled – then spent six months worrying Fellini film. Every night between six and eight they and getting scared about what we had taken had a free raffle and you could win a night in on. But excited at the same time. TEXT MIKE VON JOEL/SUSAN YOUNG ( one of the luxury tents.’ IMAGES RICHARD YOUNG We flew to San Francisco, then on to Reno, BURNING MAN to a typically kitsch hotel. The local Wal-Mart We got bikes with the RV (absolutely with a giant rabbit face and ears! After a few A hundred miles north of Reno, on a remote and largely unknown dry lake trace whatsoever remains of the attendees is totally dedicated to Burning Man people, essential) and set off to explore. Everything hours you are grey with the dust and it or the infrastructure when the seven day everything in cans, microwaveable meals, is totally free because there is no money certainly taught me that the most precious known as Black Rock Desert, once a year Mad Max meets Rocky Horror meets ‘carnival’ closes. Given the sheer scale of gallons of water and any camping exchange. Everybody just gives to others if commodity in the world is water! Black Rock City, this is a miracle in itself. equipment you can imagine. Because of the they want something. We found the best People go to unbelievable lengths to dress Woodstock for a week-long celebration of the creative life force. Each participant is personally responsible dust you need goggles and masks and stuff ‘camp’, Ashram Galactica: you walk in to up and to stage wild events. There are for removing whatsoever they bring to the – it is all in a protocol manual you get given. these beautiful tents and a yurt, with endless things going on all the time and lots HE UK divides neatly into two – night of the 2012 Olympics look like a party, a principal faithfully adhered to by all. We got our RV (deluxe American camper Persian carpets, velvet lined marquee, a of live music. Richard got into the spirit of it those that know about the kindergarten party. And despite the heat and omnipresent dust, van) and drove the three hours to Black library... it was like a five star hotel, complete by borrowing a little dirndl skirt and colour- Burning Man phenomenon and Not unlike the UK’s Glastonbury Festival, The Burning Man remains a beacon to free Rock. I had decided to go for an upmarket with bar. All free. It could have been ing his beard blue (and the pictures of me those that don’t. Because once BM has turned into a highly profitable spirits everywhere. vehicle with a few luxury accessories – it something out of a Fellini film. Every night cycling around topless will be appearing discovered, the allure of this behemoth and there has been growing was huge – and that made me nervous as I between six and eight they had a free raffle soon – not!). In fact, you really cannot week-long ‘festival’ of the friction amongst the founders(1). Widely YOUNG AT HEART had never driven one before. Your vehicle and you could win a night in one of the explain Burning Man, you have to Tcreative mind is almost irresistible. publicised, in April 2011 this rancour gets searched for ‘extra guests’ as you luxury tents. experience it. The desert is like being on What started out as an open party for a resulted in original ‘burner’, Larry Harvey, In 2012, London gallery owner SUSAN arrive but we coincided with a ‘white out’ When you go out you have to take a cup Mars; no birds, no lizards, dead flat, red few friends on Baker Beach in San Francisco announcing the beginning of a three-year YOUNG was determined to acquire a pair (dust storm). That fine dust gets absolutely (for water), goggles, dust mask, LED lights hot and dusty – until it rains, then it’s a way back in 1986, culminating with a nine process to transfer ownership and control of of the much sought after tickets and everywhere and we were blind, in eight for your bike. And it is essential to remember quagmire. The sand storms just come out foot wooden effigy of a man being burned, the event to a new non-profit organisation make the trip to Nevada. Miraculously she lanes of crazy traffic queuing up. Then you where you leave your bike otherwise you of nowhere with absolutely no warning. has grown into a massive cultural event in called the Burning Man Project. succeeded, and dragged her reluctant have to find somewhere to park. It is the are doomed, there are 1000’s on the site. If the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. In 2012 it Throughout its 26-year evolution, BM husband – celebrated society size of a small city, quite literally! By you get lost it is a nightmare so the trick is I have to say that I came back feeling a little was attended by some 55,000 people, and has seen modifications and changes in its photographer, RICHARD YOUNG – along sheer luck we settled by the side of a lovely to identify a landmark, we used an art-truck hippy-dippy. There was such a wonderful what began as a free event now commands operation – but not ethos – as a result of for the ride. 60-year-old Jewish hippy called Louis atmosphere out there. Richard was lucky to $240-420 a ticket – with a huge waiting the increasing number of participants. In Rosenbaum, and his ‘camp’, who came get a Photography Pass, and these, like the 1 list for this rigorously controlled annual 1997, for instance, it was decreed to be I was showcasing a photographer, Ohad over and told us how it all worked. They whole event, are very strictly controlled and Some of the characters at the 2012 Burning Man week at Black Rock extravaganza. only a pedestrian/ bicycle/ art-car event; Maiman, and one of his images caught my had sofas and chairs and people riding we had to submit his images to them for 1 The 'Man' illuminated with strip neon light and the Black Rock ‘city’ was to be ring attention. It was a couple of guys by a by stopped for a rest and told their own approval. We are determined to go back for by John Law Burning Man is no ordinary festival and fenced (ostensibly to catch the windblown phone booth, one in black leather and the extraordinary stories. All ages, all 2013 and I will get us tickets by hook or by Burning Man is always held the week prior to and effectively defies description. What occurs debris). The Man himself had gone from a other on a bicycle, wearing wings! I asked backgrounds and all walks of life – with an crook and I just wish I had discovered it including Labor Day weekend. In 2012: Monday, 27 is entirely down to the participants (there few feet in height to a majestic 104 feet by him about the picture and he said ‘that’s accent, obviously, on people from nearby earlier. Despite it being all likeminded, arty August, to Monday, 3 September. are no hired ‘acts’ or formal programmes) 2011, adorned with neon tubes since 1999 Burning Man’. I researched this and was California. One kid walked in on foot, naked and creative people, after just one week it and includes ‘community, artwork, absurdity, by another founder ‘burner’, John Law. amazed at the online galleries of this apart from a pink fluffy hat and a bit of pink is absolutely exhausting. Actually, you need NOTES “de-commodification” and revelry’. It’s a absolutely extraordinary event. I am not a fluff on his willy, and a rucksack. People a year to recover... 1. Larry Harvey, John Law, Michael Mikel sort of DaDa/Performance Art week, where Today, The Burning Man is a complex event festival girl, I have never been to one, but gave him shelter, water and food as he LINKS everybody contributes to the general of labyrinthine logistics. The organisation I was determined to get to this. It’s in the wandered around and that was his take 7 A satellite view of the Burning Man 'city' built on www.burningman.com Surrealism, and which makes the closing remains true to its original promise: that no middle of the desert, no electricity, no water. on Burning Man. a carefully designed grid system. www.richardyounggallery.co.uk

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Because USB 3.0 is backwards compatible, camera via a menu system (no buttons for geeks) but Wi-Fi), a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, 8GB of storage screen EPG enables program recordings up to 7 days in you can connect it to any standard computer on the manna for Android users. But is this simply too much plus a slot for micro SD cards, Android Jelly Bean – advance. Compact and nifty multi-tasker. Around £50. planet (USB2/3 works for older machines with no gadgetry in one unit? The mic at the top of the camera and the ability to record video. www.neostar-electronics.co.uk Thunderbolt connectivity). But the one Thunderbolt socket also means no piggy backing. Fast enough to allow use of iPhoto and Aperture out in the field. Not cheap but it does include the Thunderbolt cable which APPS Apple sell for £39! 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