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A while ago we ran a promotion where the winners received our rather lovely award-winning XZ-10 camera on top of a street photography day in London. We followed up with some ads based on the images shot on the day but after seeing what Derek shot on his XZ-10 in Venice we felt it was worth a follow up just for him. You see the XZ-10 is a truly pocketable camera with a punch. Perfect for the weekend away or just to be in your bag when you do not fancy carrying all the usual kit.
Thanks again Derek and we look forward to more XZ-10 adventures soon. Find out more in-store or online at olympus.co.uk INFOCUS ANN-MARIE JAMES CONTENTS l 12 INFOCUS ANDREW PALMER IMAGE & TEXT CARLA BOREL >> EDITORIAL THE PEOPLE who spend time on this trivia have analysed what happens in a single minute on the Internet. Apparently 216,000 photos are uploaded The intricately layered and contemplative reliefs that hide and reveal complex to Instagram along with 72 hours worth of video to paintings of British artist Andrew Palmer formations in predominantly pastel and You Tube (let alone the 204 million emails sent every take form through a slowly developed earth shades. His paintings are decidedly 60 seconds – but no analysis of the hours wasted reading them!). Two process. Over extended periods, and non-representational, yet influenced as separate sources created infograms to detect this usage and the results with incredible patience, he applies he is by Per Kirkeby and Peter Lanyon, were collated. But no one needs an algorithm to tell them the sheer oil, acrylic gesso paint and varnish to whose works evoke the feel or structure number of photo-images polluting both the real and virtual worlds. The various supports such as canvas, solid of elements and minerals, Palmer’s banal image has also gained a momentum of its own and galleries are wood panels and found stone. He layers paintings frequently return us to the bursting with less-is-less Photoshop’d inanities. The fusion of photography and excavates the surfaces creating bas material of the earth. with fine art – a marriage which promised so much – might have backfired in a spectacular fashion. Of being an artist Palmer says: ‘Having the time to develop one’s voice as an Serious photographers have responded with a return to skill sets that artist is a serious privilege. The other side require much more than a point-and-shoot with an iPhone. Processes that of which is development of a personal create unique images not seen since Victorian times are in the ascendant; affinity with other artists, those that analogue cameras as promoted by the visionary Lomography company you know as people and those you SEBALD REVISITED know through their work. Feeling this and the devotees of the revived Polaroid technology are all fighting back. Karen Stuke at Wapping connection to other artists and their work Even the open submission photographic ‘competition’ is being subjected 10 through the process of making is a reward to a shake out with serious, properly judged events like the Terry O’Neill in itself.’ Award and World Press Photo setting standards many others fail to meet.
Andrew Palmer was born in Salisbury Nevertheless, the click happy crowd obsessed with ‘selfies’ and in 1979. From 1998 to 2001 he studied documenting every moment of their vacuous lives has a champion. Writer at Falmouth College of Art, then and editor, David Lee, an independent voice if ever there was one, finds completed his MFA at the Slade School merit in the mundane on page 21. For us, the jury is still in of Fine Art in London in 2005, studying the dark. under Bruce McLean. He has had solo shows at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London and Galerie Rüdiger | Schöttle in Munich. COVER IMAGE ISSUE 12 SURFIN’ USA TRUE ROMANCE ROBIN FRIEND Artists & studios Art of the Heart Julian Schnabel 12 18 For ART STUDIO AMERICA © Robin Friend/Thames & Hudson
WHEN SHOOTING intimate portraits of leading artists for Art Studio America, Robin Friend well remembers his session with one of America’s legendarily irascible painters: ‘I’d been warned about Julian Schnabel’s strong personality. Had I done more research I might have had cause to be slightly more nervous. From the off it was clear that our time was going to be limited as Schnabel’s wife was expecting and they had an Jeremy Epstein appointment at the hospital. That PHOTO50 being said, we ended up having longer OPINION than originally intended as the artist 20 Edel Assanti on 21 David Lee clicks warmed to the to the interview style and questions of Hossein Amirsadeghi. When Julian left, he granted us permission to stay behind and photograph some of the 04 IN FOCUS 09 TECHNOLOGY more private rooms in the house.’ 06 SNAPSHOT GEAR & GIZMOS (see page 12)
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The Ruralist Badii Palace Marrakech DEJA VU MARRAKECH EXPRESS Painter-photographer Graham Ovenden was jailed for two years and three months after North Africa’s new purpose-built museum Court of Appeal judges found his original dedicated to photography will be based non-custodial sentence was ‘unduly lenient’. Katerina Athanasopoulou Apodemy in Morocco. The Marrakech Museum for Caught up in the general Jimmy Savile Photography and Visual Arts, designed hysteria, Ovenden was accused of abusing by the leading British architect David children who posed for his paintings in the LUMEN PRIZE TOUR Chipperfield, is to be built near the 12th- ‘70s and ‘80s, but ‘got off’ in the eyes of many The second Lumen Prize Exhibition started People’s Choice Award ($250) went to STASI MUSEUM, Berlin century Menara Gardens and scheduled to with a suspended sentence. A public outcry its global tour back in October 2013 in Cardiff. Ginevra Boni for Wilderness.The Founder’s open in 2016. The 80,000-square-foot space is ensued. Ovenden claimed that his interest It will end at Treberfydd House – where the Prize ($250) to Carla Rapoport for Genetic The East German STASI was established by surface, a dozen powerful IR flashes were to have a small permanent collection, but will in young girls was artistic and not sexual. His Lumen Prize was founded – in Powys, in July Moo for Mother. the Soviets in 1952. After the fall of the Berlin mounted. The camera itself was equipped mostly feature rotating exhibitions of works work, in the collections of the V&A, Tate and 2014. The Prize Exhibition of 50 works and the Wall, STASI HQ was opened to the public and with a revolutionary laser rangefinder by contemporary artists. David Knaus, the the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Lumen Prize Winners were selected The Lumen Prize Exhibition is an international a museum created in the main building. It is of autofocus, capable of working in complete museum’s managing director, said special York, was removed overnight. by a distinguished jury of eminent artists, award and global exhibition that celebrates interest to photographers for the vast array of darkness. Once the subject of interest crossed attention will be paid to Moroccan and North art writers and curators from around the world: the very best fine art created digitally (work photo-spy gear on display. A Pentacon camera, the focus, the system emitted a beep heard African names. The official release states: Back in July 1974, London’s National Gordon Young, Tessa Jackson OBE, Tom incorporating digital painting and drawing apps, with noise reduction, had an extended film roll in an earpiece. The operator could then take ‘The museum will focus its collecting across Portrait Gallery hosted an exhibition titled Cheshire, Yashodhara Dalmia, George graphic design, illustration techniques and/or for automatic operation and was permanently a picture by pressing the button. Only 25 three genres of photography and lens-based The Camera and Dr Barnardo. It included Blacklock, Douglas Dodds and Yang computer software programmes). It may also installed in public places like post offices. A of these were built due to cost. The STASI media, both static and moving: architecture seven prints of Victorian waifs taken by a Yongliang. The 2013 Lumen Prize went to use animation techniques, CGI and moving- camera could be disguised to look like a button, a employed about 2.5% of GDR (German and design; photojournalism; fashion and previously unknown photographer, Francis Katerina Athanasopoulou ($3000) image software to produce 3-D, interactive tie, a handbag. A tiny camera could be implanted Democratic Republic) citizens full-time, and culture.’ The museum is to be funded by Hetling, said to date back to the 1840s. In for Apodemy. Runner-up: Bonjour Interactive and time-based works. Digital photography is into a felt pen. The STASI used both off-the- up to a quarter of all citizens were used as undisclosed ‘private and corporate backers’. 1978, it was revealed that the images were Lab ($1000) for Passage; third place permitted where digital photo-manipulation is shelf commercial cameras and custom-made informants at one time or another – more A temporary exhibition space at the Badii first taken near London’s King’s Cross by Nicolas Feldmeyer ($750) for After All. The an intrinsic part of the work. hardware. Even a covert car shooting system, than even the KGB. Palace opened with ten contemporary an advertising photographer using child designed by Carl Zeiss Jena. The Trabant door’s Moroccan photographers sponsored by the models in a pseudo-Victorian style. Ovenden, The Lumen Prize Exhibition will be displayed on 20 March, 2014 outer shell was rebuilt with Plexiglas that looked large-scale screens, PCs, tablets, smartphones and The 2014 Digital Art Workshops & Symposium STASI MUSEUM Ruschestraße 103, 10365 Berlin, luxury hotel chain Sofitel. The museum also a collector of Victorian photography, high-definition projectors at these venues. 45 Millbank, LONDON exactly like the original metal door. Behind the Germany plans a scholarship programme in partnership surreptitiously re-photographed these images 10-14 June, 2014 with the University of Arizona, enabling to look like calotypes, then presented the 1-9 November, 2013 Hong Kong, SAR, China. The Space, New York Institute of Technology’s Gallery 210 Hollywood Road, HONG KONG. Moroccan students to take museum studies photos to the NPG as genuine Victorian 61, 16W61st New York, USA July, 2014 courses at institutions worldwide. prints. Ovenden was later charged with fraud 17-21 March, 2014 Treberfydd House, Powys NEW STYLE OLD WAY Chelsea College of Art & Design: (source:The Art Newspaper) WALES by a collector who claimed to have bought Triangle Space, LONDON w ten Hetling prints from him masquerading as BUSHTUCKER TRIAL genuine vintage prints. At the trial, Ovenden FRIDA KAHLO RESTORATION described his creation of Hetling as a joke Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, was also a keen photographer and collector of photographs, like her on the art establishment. He was acquitted. WPO-INDIGO PRIZE husband, Diego Rivera. Now 350 photos taken by them are being repaired in a six-month project (source: AP) financed by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch. A museum, based at Kahlo’s former house in The World Photography Organisation (WPO) Mexico City, La Casa Azul (the Blue House), holds some 6,500 images, many by Kahlo and Rivera, paired students from eight UK universities with their capturing their life in the first half of the 20th century. Among those pictured are André Breton, local Hotel Indigo – the boutique brand of the the French writer; Leon Trotsky, Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson. It is often overlooked that InterContinental Hotel Group. The brief: to shoot Frida’s father, Carl Wilhelm Kahlo, was a professional architectural photographer. The images a series in response to the local neighbourhood. form ‘a piece of a big puzzle of Frida’s complex life,’ the director of the Kahlo museum, Hilda The winner: MA Photography student at Trujillo, has noted. ‘They enable us to understand many aspects of Frida’s personality.’ Manchester School of Art, Jemma Wilcock, for (source: Guardian) images influenced by the cotton trading heritage Mayor Darryn Lyons of Liverpool. The prize is a commission to shoot Marmite character, Darryn Lyons, has won PHOTOJOURNALIST O.G. REJLANDER STARS the photography for a new Hotel Indigo to open the mayoral race in his hometown of Geelong EPPRIDGE DIES AT 75 in Europe in Spring 2014. Along with the seven taking 29.79% of the primary vote. Complete From Darkroom to Digital (until 15 February other finalists, she will be exhibited as part of the Steve McCurry with a campaign slogan of ‘vision, passion and Bill Eppridge was 2014) marks the Wolverhampton Photographic Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at change.’ The stocky 48-year-old told reporters at the scene on June Society’s 125th anniversary. Wolverhampton HOT SHOTS AT NEC Somerset House (1-18 May 2014). WPO winner Jemma Wilcock ‘I love Geelong.’ In 1992, Lyons founded 5, 1968, when Sen. was a hub for photographers in the mid-19th The Photography Show, at Birmingham’s picture agency Big Pictures in London Robert Kennedy, century including pioneer, Oscar G. Rejlander NEC (1-4 March 2014) has confirmed Rankin, The 2014 Sony World Photography (notorious for selling David Beckham and who had just won (1813-75). In conjunction with Wolverhampton Joe McNally and Steve McCurry in the line Awards Honorary Judging
Rebecca Loos snaps to the News Of The California’s Democratic Art Gallery, the exhibition includes his The Two up. It is a new consumer and professional Committee is: WM Hunt (chair); Michael Wesely: MoMA 2001-04 World). Big Pictures went into administration presidential primary, Ways of Life (1857), a tableau vivant which explores photography event from publishers Future, Guy Harrington; Ruth Eichhorn; Bill Eppridge The German photographer, Michael Wesely, makes exposures which can last up to 3 years! with a string of debts in 2012, leaving 21 had addressed the Victorian preoccupations of morality and owners of Digital Camera, Photography Week Isabella Icoz; Matthew Pillsbury; His work usually reveals Berlin, a city constantly in flux, in another light entirely. Using his of his London-based staff without jobs and campaign supporters at a Los Angeles hotel and depravity. Made up of 32 separate images, a copy and Practical Photoshop. Rankin will be Harry Hardie; Poorna Bell; own non-digital, film photography process since the 1990s, Wesely’s mostly black and white a tranche of bad debts. Back in Australia, was walking out through its kitchen when shot by was purchased by Queen Victoria. Proud of O.G. interviewed live on 1 and 2 March; American Simon Barnett; Suzy Koo; Joanna works are the antithesis of point and shoot digital technology. They reveal the transitory Lyons became a shareholder of another firm Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was hit in the head and Rejlander’s achievements, the Society recognised photographer Joe McNally will discuss his Neurath. nature of urban construction and an absence of human life (much too slow to register on the called BPGG Limited – which controversially neck and died 26 hours later from his wounds. his contribution by paying for his gravestone. Other career on 2, 3 and 4 March; and Magnum’s www.worldphoto.org film!), but they do show the movement of the earth and sun over the year(s) and throughout bought up the assets of Big Pictures from Eppridge took his famous photograph of Robert locals include Haseler, Whitlock, Bennett-Clark, Steve McCurry will discuss his career in the changing seasons. From 2001-2004, he famously documented the demolition and the administrators for a paltry £164,000. Kennedy sprawled semi-conscious in his own Eisenhofer and Susser and are complemented detail on 3 March. His celebrated photo of reconstruction of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Comically, he appeared at the Leveson blood while busboy Juan Romero cradles him by images of modern day Wolverhampton. Jane the Afghan Girl has become an iconic image www.wesely.org Inquiry into media ethics in 2012. on the kitchen floor.(source: AP) Morrow is Exhibitions Curator. of the 20th century. WPO finalist Alberto Gualtieri
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AR T Spark that phone up BERMONDSEY Bright Spark Spark Camera, from IDEO, makes Independent Gallery and Project Space Available to Hire it easier to shoot atmospheric, attractive mini-movies with a GoPro action camera ART BERMONDSEY is a self-contained gallery space located on Bermondsey Street, Smartphone. The maximum length one of the most prestigious artistic hubs in central London. is 30 seconds, no logging-in required Have a Go Hero TOR The Onion Router to start shooting, and it’s peanuts in the App Store. As lightweight GoPro, the company with the image quality. A new feature called Moments from the City and Tower Bridge, opposite White Cube, surrounded by galleries, NSA & GCHQ target Secret Internet and easy to use as the iPhone’s Hero line of sports cameras that SuperView provides wider-angle chic bars, cafes and restaurants, ART BERMONDSEY is perfect for short term projects or stock camera app, but ultimately far take steady footage in extreme shots. The silver edition has an longer exhibitions. The National Security Agency and GCHQ have made repeated attempts more powerful. It lets you revisit and conditions has launched the Hero image processor which is two times to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to rework old clips at any time. Swap in 3+. Lighter and smaller, it comes faster, 1080p video at 60 fps, as well ART BERMONDSEY protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded a new filter, try out a new tune, or in two versions. The Black Edition as 720p video at 120 fps. Its body 183-185 Bermondsey Street, First Floor and promoted by the US government itself. Whistleblower Edward Snowden tack a new bit of video on to the end is 20% smaller and offers a 30% is 15% smaller and it supports the London SE1 3UW revealed that the agency’s current successes targeted the Firefox web browser of the sequence – in private. Spark improved battery life, four times new, faster Wi-Fi standard. The older used with Tor, giving the agency full control over targets’ computers, including stashes your videos safely on your faster Wi-Fi speeds, a new lens for model, Hero 3, is still available. For floor plan and further details contact: access to files, all keystrokes and all online activity. Tor – which stands for camera roll. www.ideo.com sharper video and overall better www.gopro.com +44 (0)20 7407 6496 or +44 (0)7988 239300 The Onion Router – is an open-source public project that bounces its users’ [email protected] internet traffic through several other computers, which it calls ‘relays’ or ‘nodes’, to keep it anonymous and avoid online censorship tools. It is relied upon by Back to the Future Titter Or visit: journalists, activists and campaigners in the US and Europe as well as in China, Ogilvy One Athens has created Iran and Syria, to maintain the privacy of their communications and avoid www.artbermondsey.co.uk a bra that will send a tweet each government reprisals. To this end, it receives around 60% of its funding from time it is unclasped. The Tweeting the US government, primarily the State Department and the Department of Bra, sponsored by Nestle, uses Defense – which houses the NSA. a mechanism that is connected to a Smartphone via Bluetooth Law enforcement agencies say it is also used by people engaged in terrorism, and automatically posts a tweet the trade of child abuse images and online drug dealing, and they are targeting every time it is unhooked. The campaign features Greek celebrity Maria terrorists or organised criminals, but these attacks could also hit researchers Mpacodimou who will wear the bra and each time she unhooks it, it will or those who accidentally stumble upon a targeted site. GCHQ documents post to her many thousands of Twitter fans about breast self-exams. Yeah Lumix GM1 note Tor was ‘created by the US government’ and is ‘now maintained by the right! (source: AP) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’, a US freedom of expression group. In The lightweight retro look is back. Component Smartphone looks for investors reality, Tor is maintained by an independent foundation, though has in the past Panasonic’s Lumix GM1 shoots 3D still warm? received funding from the EFF. (source: Guardian) 16mp RAW stills at up to ISO 25,600, Dutch designer Dave it has focus peaking, Wi-Fi image Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference The Seene free app, created by London Hakkens has developed transfer and a 12-32mm f /3.5-5.6 kit firm Obvious Engineering, takes a series (DARC) Phonebloks, a zoom that retracts electronically to of pictures and then World Wide Net composite smartphone Portable Power pancake-length when turned off. A maps them on to the where the various China is home to the world’s largest Travelling with power hungry remote control app for Android model to give the components, or population of digital natives, more gadgets? The 6000 mAh Mophie and iOS, and it shoots 24/60 effect of 3D. When a ‘modular elements’ than 75 million people, almost twice Juice Pack Powerstation Duo has fps 1080-line video (25/60 in Seene is created, a (camera, storage, as many as the US with more than two USB ports for simultaneous dual PAL-LAND). There’s also a silent series of dots appears battery etc.) simply on the images, 41 million. charging. Long lasting and heavy operation mode, pop-up flash and bolt on. Rather than showing the perspective points the app can Statista created the Top Ten duty, like having a portable wall the usual complement of filters and upgrading, keep your see to build its 3D model. It then asks a user countries that boast the most digital outlet (as wide and tall as an iPhone creative options. But no shoe, no phone and just add on to take a series of photos of the subject by users: 1. CHINA 2. US 3. INDIA 4 but thicker) it offers an all-day viewfinder or external mic new items as required moving the phone around. These images 4. BRAZIL 5. JAPAN 6. MEXICO rapid recharge facility for iPhones, and headphone jacks. You can – instantly swapped or replaced. If a battery dies, for example, a new one can are then mapped on to the model, creating 7. RUSSIA 8. GERMANY iPads and other USB devices. option a ‘70s brown leather trim for be clipped into place. Cameras with different lenses can be swapped in and the Seene. When users move their phone, 9. VIETNAM 10. UK www.mophie.com full effect. out depending on the occasion. Hakkens claims: ‘Every year millions of mobile it appears that they can look around the phones are thrown away because they are broken or obsolete. In most of these Micro Quadcopter object. (source AP) cases it is just one part that needs repairing or upgrading and all the other parts Gone but not forgotten work fine.’ Those embarrassing images sent over SnapChat are no The first ever Drone and Aerial longer safe and they are not automatically deleted! Robotics Conference (DARC) Every ‘blok’ has its own function and they include a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi The SnapHack app lets you save and re-open SnapChat debuted in NYC last October transmitter, a battery, camera, new display and storage. They each attach to messages at anytime. SnapChat’s USP is that you choose and the main theme was a universal base that contains all the relevant electric connections. They are how long you want a picture to be viewable (max 10 miniaturisation. A popular feature fixed on to this board using pins, with two screws holding everything in place. seconds) before it automatically deletes. Special effects was FPV (First Person View) where Individual bloks are sold through the Blokstore – similar to an app store, and even text can also be added. Most usage of course: flyers drive their drones via remote but for hardware. A photographer? Go for the best camera. Are you working Eirik Solheim Project manager, sexting. Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics discovered displays. One spectacular demo in the ‘cloud’? Choose less storage. Or go back to basics and choose a top development department Norwegian that SnapChat was saving the images: ‘[SnapChat] claim that combined both was from Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) notch battery. that it’s deleted, and it’s not even deleted. It’s actually Eirik Solheim of the Norwegian https://phonebloks.com saved on the phone,’ said a spokesperson. SnapChat – for that intimate moment Broadcasting Corporation who flew Solheim is leading projects involving a 25 gram 3D printed £150 Micro internet services, interactive TV,
BTW: SnapChat reportedly rejected a $3 billion purchase offer from Facebook amidst rumours that Chinese e-commerce company Quadcopter out of the stage’s social media and broadband Tencent Holdings were also in the running. Co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel comes from an affluent background. His mother was the backdoor and into the backstage strategies. (source DARC) passages of the venue, outside youngest woman ever to graduate from Harvard Law School, and worked as a partner for the law firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, his father www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pAltDzmNM is a partner at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, and they have a $4.6 million home in Huntington Palisades. (source: Huffington Post) and back (YouTube link below). http://eirikso.com
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▲ KAREN STUKE Names at Pinkas Synagogue, Prague ▲ Deportation of Jewish family (from vintage image)
‘Even three generations later we still have ▲ WAPPING PROJECT Installation living witnesses The penultimate like grandparents exhibition at one or parents. They A MAGICAL of London’s most were children, original spaces was but they still MYSTERY an outstanding remember. tribute to both Who was lying? TOUR artist and curator ▲ Karen Stuke Berlin 2013 Who knew TEXT MIKE VON JOEL IMAGES KAREN STUKE what?’ HERE HAVE BEEN many time and the essence of a subject, melds KAREN STUKE: DIALOGUE AT THE PARASOL UNIT outstanding exhibitions of perfectly with the translation of Sebald’s ▲ contemporary photography at written imagery on to a tangible surface. LONDON, OCTOBER 2013 KAREN STUKE Paris Searching for Father the Wapping Project, but the penultimate exhibition in this Stuke’s methodology was to attempt to Tscintillating venue is one of director Jules follow in the fictional footsteps of Austerlitz, F22 : When did you first become aware Sebald puts in references which you can easily a very typical Nazi propaganda film made as the duration of sleep) told me to contact culturally entwined – if not dominated – When I took the first pinhole pictures, it Wright’s most poignant collaborations. Taking to recreate for herself the experience – both of the W.G. Sebald novel? Was it the miss, but read carefully and start following the by a Jewish actor and director who was then the Wapping Project and the very first day I by the recent historical fact of National was to capture an entire opera in one single the mysterious novel, Austerlitz, by German physical and mental – of a dislocated child, content that enthralled you, or the fact hints and links and you end up in real history deported to Auschwitz. He agreed to film it met Jules she asked me if I knew Sebald and Socialism up to 1945. But why do you image, since I wanted to show the spirit of writer WG ‘Max’ Sebald as a script, and to document key locations mapped that he included mysterious images with real destinies. He writes that Austerlitz’s because he was hoping to get away. Austerlitz. She said: ‘Read the book – we might think this period, and the factors of the a production. I chose the cardboard self- she commissioned Berlin based photographer along the journey. To these images she within the text? mother (an actress and opera singer) had In the book, Austerlitz is watching it again have a project!’ When I read it – time and Holocaust itself, still obsess many creative made box because of the relation between Karen Stuke to interpret the myriad added others, loaded with emotional Karen Stuke : When I first met Jules Wright her first role on stage as Olympia in The Tales and again because he is hoping to recognise memory, the vague idea of image – although Germans born two or three generations the camera and the stage, which is like a complex suggestions layered within a story and historical impact, that could well be (in August 2012), she asked me if I knew of Hoffmann. I know The Tales of Hoffmann his mother. There is also the image with the it was a challenge to work totally differently, I after these events? box too. I transformed rooms into camera of loss, identity and closure, centred on part of Austerlitz’s deep subconscious the book – that’s when I started reading quite well – Olympia – that’s in the act where names: I took that in the Pinkas Synagogue knew I could do it. I felt totally free and trusted That might have something to do with the obscuras during workshops – and you would Nazi Germany. memory. it. It was not easy in the beginning – long Hoffmann buys glasses with which he can’t see in Prague. Rooms with 77,000 names of – the best condition, I would say! way we are educated at school – WWII is still be surprised how fascinated the participants sentences and a difficult topic – but I the difference between fiction and fact anymore. murdered Jews – all handwritten on the walls. a very big topic, even at primary school as far are by this simple effect. One thing which ‘In 1939, five year old Jacques Austerlitz is The resulting exhibition, in the depths and really got into it when I tried to follow the Sebald must have had such an enormous I was wondering if there was an ‘Austerlitz’, Everybody loved last summer, but I found it as I remember. Even three generations later annoys me is when people think my theatre sent to England on a Kindertransport and industrial gloom of the Boiler House gallery ‘original’ places. That’s when he [Sebald] knowledge – there are links to Wittgenstein and and there was! In short: I was rather enthralled too sunny because who wants to bring a blue we still have living witnesses like grandparents pinhole pictures are done with Photoshop. placed with foster parents. He grows up at the Wapping Project, was a sensation. got me – the mixture between fiction and Kafka which I started to detect as well. I actually by the fact that memory is a kind of blur sky to th e Kindertransport, to trauma and to or parents. They were children, but they still ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career In the hands of a world-class theatre fact. It is the place, but somehow it isn’t. had to stop myself at certain points, otherwise it and not something concrete. This matched the holocaust? And it caused some problems remember. Who was lying? Who knew what? Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, as an architectural historian, Austerlitz – director of the calibre of Jules Wright, the Reading the book, you could think that would have got out of hand. wonderfully with my pinhole camera works. because I wanted long exposures – grey sky Who was afraid and followed the masses, London E1W 3SG. The venue is scheduled to close its doors permanently on 22 December. having avoided all clues that might point to his installation itself was also deeply moving. Austerlitz actually existed. I started to visit and darkness would have been ideal. But time against his own conviction, because of that origin – finds the past returning to haunt him The facsimile, life-size railway line, running the real original places like Liverpool Street In Prague, I visited the address which is How did the show at Wapping evolve? was a bit tight so I couldn’t wait too long for fear? How all of that was possible is a question and he is forced to explore what happened the length of the space and disappearing Station, hesitating, since I didn’t want the mentioned, Sporkova 12, his home as a boy. Is it designed as a one off, or will the the right weather. We would love to show I ask myself quite often. LINKS Karen Stuke www.karenstuke.de fifty years before.’(Gallery Notes) into a brick arch at the far end, needed series ending up as a kind of documentary. I Again, that address can’t be the ‘real’ one exhibition travel to other venues? the installation in Prague and Berlin. Or cities no explanation. For a German artist to lay did a lot of research on the Kindertransport since it is a cloister and has always been A friend who knew my pinhole work quite where the children were sent to, so there The pinhole camera process – which NOTES Max Sebald (Wertach 1944 - Norfolk 2001) studied Karen Stuke’s collaboration as photographer bare her response to the Nazi oppression – getting 10,000 mostly Jewish kids out so. But it’s not just about a boy who lost his well (long exposures in theatres for a series would be a relation between the photos and you also teach – is the very antithesis German literature at the University of Fribourg for After Sebald’s Austerlitz is inspired. of the Jews was at once courageous and of Nazi Germany – an important part of memory and tries to recover it – it’s about this called Opera Obscura, started in 1994, where stories and the ‘real’ again. of modern digital technology. Why did and was a research student at the University Recognised as a master exponent of the ‘pin wholly intimate. Karen Stuke’s reply to Jules the history which becomes more concrete horrible history with all its facets. That’s why the exposure time was as long as an entire you travel in this direction as opposed of Manchester from 1966 to 1969. In 1970 he became a lecturer at the University of East Anglia hole’ camera method of image making, her Wright’s loaded proposition was an absolute when you know about specific stories and I included the black and white images which opera, and another series called Sleeping Sister, One can understand the immediate to creating the effects you wanted with (UEA). Sebald died in a car crash near Norwich in own exploration into capturing evolution, triumph. individual biographies. are pinhole film stills. The woman is from from 2001, where the exposure was as long post-War youth of Germany being technology? December 2001.
10 www.f22magazine.com www.f22magazine.com 11 PROJECT: ART STUDIO AMERICA BEHIND THE ROBIN FRIEND INTERVIEWED IN LONDON & NEW YORK F22: You are recognised for your Capturing a portrait is, of course, different hold things back, whereas others were more one. Alas he did not agree. Getting a project extensive work with landscape. Was from capturing the ‘landscape’ of a studio forthcoming and only too willing to let us in. like this off the ground can be a logistical there ever a possibility that you might space. There is a different momentum. I suppose the challenge came from trying to nightmare. Artists, on the whole, have crazy return to live in Australia (where you How did you approach the inclusion of a create a balanced and consistent portrayal of schedules and are difficult creatures to pin spent your formative years) which specific living being (the artist) into the each artist that is in keeping with his or her down. Things also happen that one cannot is itself – of course – essentially a equation? true nature. I would say that, on the whole, foresee. Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc with PAINTED SMILE tremendous landscape adventure? Throughout Sanctuary I would say the the Americans were more cautious about how one of our NY trips. We had to improvise; Robin Friend: Going back to live artwork and the environment in which it was they would be represented when it came to the Hiroshi Sugimoto shoot was done in permanently is something I have never really conceived came first and the artist would the selection and final edit of their profile. complete darkness. I used a torch and long considered. But you never know, if the right usually play second fiddle. It was the studio exposures for many of the studio shots! long-term project came around… I’m actually landscape I was after. There were exceptions, What was the ‘mechanism’ of the going there for Christmas for a month to see of course. With Art Studio America we made a commission? Were you involved in the You have cited Nash as the most friends and work on a couple of ideas. conscious decision to show more of the artist selection process? Did you have to sort memorable studio visit in the UK. Was and the personality of the individual. out the shoots, set the whole thing up? Or there a similar high impact – personal How did you come to be involved in was it all prearranged? – experience in the USA that really Sanctuary, the study of British artists’ I feel sure you perceived a considerable A brilliant small team orchestrated the shoots impressed you? studios/workplaces? difference when dealing with American and it was mainly the publisher and executive There are too many! I had the best bear hug Chance! The publisher saw a piece of my artists in comparison to the British producer who selected the artists. Often the ever from Bill Viola. Drive by fruit picking work on display at John Jones. It was a large selection. Can you expand on that? artists would play an important part in the with Billy Al Bengston and his wife Wendy photograph of a smoke flue made at a slate To be honest, it depends on the characteristics selection process. They would suggest a fellow in Hawaii was a hilarious experience I’ll never mine in North Wales. It obviously made an of the person, not the nationality. There is colleague they thought worthy, pick up the forget. The trip to Santa Fe (New Mexico) impression on him – he got in touch and an eclectic and diverse mix of individuals in phone, and it would snowball from there. I and trekking to Georgia O’Keeffe’s house offered me the commission. both books. Some were reserved and tried to suggested a few, William Eggleston being in the desert was also right up there.
JOHN CURRIN It was unfortunate that the day we met John Currin he had a pretty bad fever taking hold. To John’s credit, he battled through and didn’t let us down, knowing that the next day we would be heading back to London. The way he talks about his painting process, and cites fellow artists and works, is infectious. As the rest of the team left, I stayed behind to set up some scenarios that involved John’s hand and one of his paint palettes. He wasn’t content with just putting paint on to the palette. It had to be mixed; it had to be ‘real’. He began to paint a ‘study’ for a future work. The way his hand moved back and forth on the canvas was hypnotising. Over 100 leading American artists reveal themselves to the lens of a young British photographer – the result is an outstanding collection of candid portraits
TEXT MIKE VON JOEL IMAGES ROBIN FRIEND
ACK IN 1965 a book was published magazines and the newspaper supplement. the circuit, he commissioned a relatively and featuring some 115 leading American – first by Nelson, later reprinted by unknown Royal College graduate who had artists.(1) A large format (320mm x 250mm) others – that has since become an Many attempts have been made since to try been nominated for the prestigious Prix Pictet hardback, manufactured to the highest iconic collector’s item. Private View and replicate the immediacy and the vitality Award just a year earlier. Amirsadeghi saw standards one expects from Thames & was a large format, hardcover tome captured by Private View. Surprisingly this Robin Friend’s landscape images at the John Hudson, combines highly accessible texts and TAUBA AUERBACH Bwith 298 pages dedicated to trending British was not achieved until 2012 when publisher, Jones Gallery and, subsequently, a very essays from Robert Storr, Mark Godfrey and Tauba Auerbach has a mathematical mind like no artists and dealers of the day. Written by John editor and writer, Hossein Amirsadeghi, special partnership was born. Ben Genocchio, edited by Maryam Eisler. other artist I photographed for this book. Physics and Russell and Bryan Robertson, created Sanctuary – a massive 600 pages of These support the key ingredient of the project philosophy are her weapons of choice. She is a deep with photographs by Lord Snowdon, it photographic profiles of leading British artists With the support of Thames & Hudson, – the intimate and personal examination of thinker; evidence of this was all around her studio. I got depicted artists in their home and studio that benefited from a UK collaboration with it was an obvious development to extend the private face of the many artists who enjoy the impression she is most at ease when creating work environments, free from the constraints of veteran art house, Thames & Hudson. It the concept of Sanctuary to America. The fame and celebrity on the American art circuit, or solving an equation. Creation can be a compulsion the formal, posed promotional portrait. It has was an exciting work anyhow, but all the exceptional result, Art Studio America, was through Hossein Amirsadeghi’s own percipient since become a reference work for the art more outstanding for Amirsadeghi’s choice published in 2013 and, once again, a major interviews, and by the lens of Robin Friend. one craves. Lamps, jewellery, playing cards, calendars historian examining the turning point of British of photographer for the project. Eschewing part of its success was to be found in the Each tells its own story. and, of course, fonts; she is a constant creator, art as it occurred in the age of the new colour the current and fashionable ‘big names’ on dynamic portraits captured by Robin Friend designing even the clothes she was wearing that day.
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Tony – these are the captions - just name of artist then the ‘quote ‘ underneath like an extended caption. Key them to the pictures by numbers.
R RYAN McGINLEY Ryan McGinley’s studio was situated in the hustle and bustle of Chinatown in Manhattan, New York. The studio had a very cool relaxed vibe with a young team calling the shots. Ryan spoke honestly and openly about his upbringing and LINKS www.robinfriend.co.uk how this had influenced his artistic practice. It NOTES was very interesting. I think he enjoyed the 1. In the context of this book questions being asked: ‘American artist’ refers to an artist they challenged him. living and working in the USA, Making a picture of such irrespective of nationality. an amazing portrait photographer could
LARRY BELL We visited Larry Bell on three different occasions; twice at his Venice Beach studio in Los Angeles and once at his Taos, New Mexico space. The artist Jason Martin, a friend of Larry’s who I’d previously photographed for the British Artist book Sanctuary, had put us in touch. Larry is well known around Venice Beach and can always be found wearing his signature trilby and smoking a cigar. Around the corner from his studio is Larry’s, a restaurant and bar named in his honour. They serve a mean Bloody Mary. In Taos, I got to experience a little of what it’s like to be Mr Bell, by using his ‘Time Machine’, a sculptural piece which allows two participants to transpose their faces on to one another. Suddenly I was donning a trilby and smoking a fat cigar! Larry has a dry wit and loves making work. I enjoyed watching him work the high-vacuum thermal evaporator used by astrophysicists to play with shades of light. It was like watching a scientist – he was completely in his element.
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ART STUDIO AMERICA Contemporary Artist Spaces Ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi / Maryam Eisler Thames & Hudson Large Format HB. 600pp. 597 illustrations ISBN: 978-0500970539
MALCOLM MORLEY Malcolm Morley was charming and right from the off made us all feel very welcome. Before starting the shoot, we had a lovely lunch that his wife Linda had prepared. They made a very sweet couple. What I remember most from that visit was the amazing light that filled the studio. Model planes and ships Malcolm had built dotted the colourful room. There was a childlike warmth and sense of play to the space. Later on in the day we travelled to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, where Malcolm was due to have the opening exhibition. They had the painters and decorators finishing off when we turned up. There was a great moment when Malcolm picked up one of the paint rollers and did a couple of giant strokes on the gallery wall.
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Jane & Serge. A Family Album Andrew Birkin. Alison Castle (ed) Taschen HB: 176 pp + extras True Crime Detective Magazines ISBN: 978-3836549974 Eric Godtland, Dian Hanson Taschen PB. 336 pp English, French, German ISBN: 978-3836534871
TRUE ‘ROMANCE’ 2
NCE UPON A time the term ‘artist’ would be synonymous with ‘commercial artist’, A London cab in 1969 a role that still commanded respect and envy and much preferable to a factory floor existence. Even in the ‘50s and ‘60s era of ‘Mad Men’, graphic artists and their skill Oas draughtsmen were an integral part of any agency. Today, the advances in reprographics and photography have all but eliminated the hand-drawn in advertising and publishing. But there was a hey-day and no finer examples exist than those created for what is now a collector’s genre – the pulp crime novel. In America, the cult classics (leaving aside the stylised NOW THE PAST comic book heroes of Marvel or DC) were the ‘true crime’ paperbacks that sold for a few cents. Periodicals like True Two diverse cult subjects reinstated for today by the genius that is George Cross original, 1950 Detective Mysteries, Smash Detective Cases, Startling Detective, True Gang Life, and True Cases of Women in Crime. Written Taschen’s contemporary culture programme in a Sam Spade guttural style, all claimed to be authentic insider stories from police files or prison cells, and launched the punchy, provocative cover lines that still thrill to this day: The Gutter Waits for Girls Like Me; Miss Double X and her Killer Gang; I Dated Danger... TRUE ROMANCE 1 Although by the 1950s the photo-jacket was quicker and T IS HARD FOR anyone English to understand just how cheaper to produce, these still imitated the overtly sexy iconic Serge Gainsbourg was in France. His appeal spanned (invariably a sultry female in various states of déshabillé) generations. Somehow like Marianne, his anti-establishment, covers that had got progressively more suggestive since 1924, Renaissance-man persona epitomised something intrinsic in when True Detective launched (which often used touched-up the way the French see themselves. The fact that he was not film stills and posed photographs). Talented fine artists of conventionally handsome, or athletically built, only added to the time thought this cover work demeaning and only a few Ihis popular appeal. If Jane Birkin’s brother, Andrew, had proposed signed the images they made, Harold Bennett being one. this book to any other publisher it would have died in some slush These low budget magazines relied totally on the immediate pile on some anonymous desk somewhere. A book of family snaps impact of the cover at the point of sale and no trick was of Jane and Serge – fashionable lovers for a decade and heavy omitted to tempt a purchase. In the ‘30s, real gangsters like breathers on a very catchy tune, Je t’aime... moi non plus – already Al Capone stimulated an interest in police activities and it sounds dull, soporific and dated. But in the hands of the Taschen Going on the sleeper train to Paris, 1969 was a Golden Age for sales. Criminals and the police alike creative department and designers M/M (Paris) it becomes an courted the instant fame a feature in a leading title could instant collector’s item, incorporating a folder of facsimile contact bestow. But by the 1940s, with a war on, interest faltered sheets, explanatory notebook, fold-out poster, 5 photo prints, a and the publishers responded by upping the content sure sticker sheet and a ‘60s style embroidered patch; all inside a custom Best True Fact Detective, September 1953 to sell: sex! It also ushered in the posed photo covers which plastic jacket. The book itself is a chronological series of intimate would eventually dominate. Silk negligees and stocking tops and candid unpublished images taken by Andrew Birkin of the Jane were still the order of the day for these damsels in distress. and Serge relationship – a ‘60s version of Sartre and de Beauvoir Taschen’s West Coast editor, Dian Hanson, specialises in these – edited from the thousands available. Gainsbourg died in March fabulous, niche concepts that marry brilliantly hypnotic visuals 1991 of a heart attack and now enjoys legend status in France. His and a succinct, informed text. It is interesting to note just funeral brought Paris to a standstill, and French President François how little the cover essentials changed in 50 years of heaving Mitterrand declared: ‘He was our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire... He breasts, big hair and horrible crimes. But some of these covers elevated the song to the level of art.’ In Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 1978 Startling Detective Adventures, April 1930 are clearly art works of true genius. And timeless classics.
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HOTOGRAPHY IS NOW magnificently by young people grinning and gawping at the out of control. It is costless and more camera. This is a tedious abuse of a potentially Hey - it’s the synchronised SELFIE immediately broadcast than ever stimulating advance. The sheer banality of lives, Get the T-shirt and haircut first, dude... Indonesian Eye at Saatchi Gallery Alison Jacques Gallery. Berners St. before – a beautiful anarchy has been something long ignored as a subject, could born. Anyone can publish virtually any now be recorded. A problem arises here: it is Ppicture they like on social networking sites, or in comparatively easy to take a picture of something Hmmm...bit of lens distortion here Indonesian Eye at Saatchi Gallery books using free website publishing programmes obviously significant but extremely difficult to such as Blurb.(1) In the last dozen years, for take an interesting image of a non-event, those example, I’ve published ten books of my own ‘temporary deaths’, as Orwell dubbed them, with no more than a couple of copies of each. when nothing much is happening. Combining photographs with diaries, I give them as Christmas presents to my children and friends. ▲ David Lee from the ongoing series Power The potential of photography and the Constituting my own personal record of the times inconsequential is a marriage made in heaven. I have lived through, they are addressed, at least The future deserves better access to what real in part, to the future: this is what I saw and what I life is like, told by those who lived it. In a world of thought. Subjects are usually pedestrian: bus and un-improving semi-literacy, photography is best train journeys, bad bird photographs, a cyclist in placed to accurately convey personal experience. London, and more recently power stations and SNAP HAPPY Somehow we need to encourage others to take coach passengers. One is called Truck Drivers in more stimulating pictures of not particularly Spring. Some concern an individual day, which, eye-catching subjects. By all means tell me how by a trick of light and mood, seemed at the time boring your life is – but at least surprise me into happier and more worth remembering than paying attention, instead of sending me to sleep. other days. These books are undoubtedly of The current fashion for interminable digital snaps and negligible merit, but they do exist. ‘selfies’ published to the world via social media might NOTES (1) Blurb.com is the print-on demand service of choice for Er, sorry Jeff, it’s actually a SELFIE The principle beauty of this revolutionary independent photographers, offering a library quality book Frieze. Regent’s Park development is that we no longer have to be condemned by serious photographers, but David Lee creation submit to the personal whims and tastes of sees some merit in the madness. David Lee is editor of the uncompromising and fiercely those self-appointed arbiters of photography. independent art journal, The Jackdaw. These few – and not all of them know what they are doing – still play their exclusive little games Almost all people in developed countries are worthy of preserving – in those distant Kodak but don’t matter nearly so much as they once now armed with a camera every day of their days, the typical film reel contained summer did. The most interesting and lasting books of lives. Whatever they do, they walk along nursing holidays punctuated by Christmas – this can now photographs are not those issued by mainstream camera phones ready for deployment. This be rectified. Previously ordinary events were publishers, but are works printed for their own has led to the claim that, since 2008, more never recorded; the majority’s experience in interest by intelligent, unpretentious and often photographs have been taken than were created the 19th and 20th centuries was, at best, poorly visually astute outsiders. Look, for example, between 1839 (the invention of photography) documented as a result. Today we can show at the curiosity that is Preston is my Paris on and 2007. From now on, history in pictures will everything about the way we live. the Internet. The web is full of these left-field be seen from many unofficial points of view, personal accounts of banal, everyday life. Thus we can each show life how we experience it The problem is that we don’t. Courtesy of Here’s one I took 25 years earlier is history being written and illustrated by those and how we want it to be remembered in the Instagram, Facebook etc., cyberspace is full of How to enjoy Modern Art Tate Modern Dinner Indonesian Eye at Saatchi Gallery who formerly were voiceless. future. Whereas once only special events were limited variants of the same images, dominated ▲ David Lee from the ongoing series Power
Just in case I get thirsty later on This is one I’ll make later... Indonesian Eye at Saatchi Gallery Indonesian Eye at Saatchi Gallery
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▲ Aram Bartholl ▲ Constant Dullaart Greetings from the Internet 2013 Thomas Knoll (Eagle + Spectrum Clear Hammered) 2013 48 post card digital prints Framed archival pigment print on hahnemühle paper, custom structured glass © the artist © the artist courtesy Future Gallery
▲ Joe Hamilton DIV / CONTOUR 2012 Tumblr page ONE STEP BEYOND © the artist PHOTO50 is already established as a radical take on the art of photography. 2014 curators, Charlie Fellowes and Jeremy Epstein, do not disappoint
NE OF THE most anticipated photography now you have to talk about the fact have lately become very interested in the post- sections of the London Art Fair that the medium has shifted its focus – now there internet generation, the 25-35 year old artists, but is the Art Projects arena, which are a lot of people working with the photographic we do not really have that much of a commercial has received acclaim and positive image who are definitely not photographers. programme in Victoria. Art fairs are more about reviews since its inauguration. There is definitely a comment on the abundance expansion than consolidation for Edel Assanti. OWithin this is PHOTO50, which also engenders of imagery in the show.’ 2014 is going to be an important year for us, we much attention and critical debate. The have a lot happening! ▲ Brenna Murphy organisers presumably had in mind a contained The exposition is entitled Immaterial Matter and Skymandala 2013 exhibition showing current in vogue images, but the official release notes that it will: ‘demonstrate Archival pigment print since Sue Steward presented her interpretation the irrevocably altered state of photography as © the artist courtesy Future Gallery NOTES of the brief in 2012, followed by Nick Hackworth a classification in the post-internet era, in which To hear Sue Steward discuss her 2012 in 2013, this division has become decidedly the images exist in potentially infinite alternative Photo50 feature go to f22 VIDEOS at www.state-media.com/f22 province of visionary and provocative curating. manifestations. This exploration is enacted ▼ Kate Steciw playfully at times, in work that attempts to Other galleries exhibiting work by contemporary Background, Basic, Bright, Burlap, Closeup, Color, The baton for 2014 has been handed to the two situate itself on the boundary between the photographers will include: 21st Editions; Purdy Couch, Crust, Dessert, Drink, Exotic, Food, Formal, Fox, Fresh, Freshness, Fruit, Garnet, Glass, Gourmet, partners in trending Victoria-based gallery, Edel ascribed realms of the digital and material, and Hicks Gallery; Crane Kalman Brighton; Cynthia Corbett Gallery; Danielle Arnaud; Flowers Gallery; Grain, Granite, Healthy, Ingredient, Isolate, Juice, Assanti. And Jeremy Epstein and Charlie progressively elsewhere, in works that describe GBS Fine Art and Jack Bell Gallery. Juicy, Nature, Organic, Pink, Plant, Pomegranate, Fellowes fully intend to take PHOTO50 visitors new ontologies and geographies that are Racing, Raw, Red, Relax, Romantic, Seed, Speed LINKS Sweet, Tasty, Tropical 2013 on a journey into the unexpected. Although developing as a result of the prevalence of free www.londonartfair.co.uk C-Prints, Oak Frames, Bumper Stickers. Unique Fellowes (as ex-Hamilton Gallery staffer) is circulating digital information.’ www.edelassanti.com © the artist ostensibly the photography expert, Epstein (formerly of Gagosian Gallery) has taken the A proposition sure to exercise the photography reins with enthusiasm and explains why, how and anoraks. But as Epstein observes, once what they have in store for January. contracted, they took the opportunity seriously.
‘Of course Charlie is on a number of committees ‘Edel Assanti had contributed to Art Projects for and panels to do with photography, but it is fair a couple of years running. We were contacted to say these are mainly concerned with lens last July about PHOTO50 and the organisers ask based work. So this brings together an area of you to create an essay on your concept once major interest for Charlie and one that definitely it has been formulated. We jumped on a plane interests me. It has been a joint endeavour. But to the USA – where a lot of the art we were we have both become involved with the internet contemplating originates – and then decided we generation – almost post-internet generation could indeed make it happen. We included every – and artists who are critically engaged in this artist in our show in the essay to demonstrate area. We had the idea for PHOTO50 about the where they fitted into the profile. It is a lot of work impact of the advent of the internet and digital but this year we think we have created a real age on the dissemination of artworks. The vast headline-grabber! majority of inclusions are made not using a camera; although they use photography, most ‘We will also be running an exhibition at the are print based using stock or appropriated gallery not unrelated to this to coincide with the imagery. PHOTO50 defines itself by medium, London Art Fair. But, actually, our programme ours is a show that says if you want to talk about doesn’t hugely address this sort of material. We
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