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The key ingredient of this Summer Issue of f22 is a profile on the collector and gallerist, Charles Saatchi. We are privileged to have a cover image by the UK’s emperor of celebrity portraits: Richard Young.
SAATCHI IS WELL KNOWN for his dislike of being photographed and most shots of him are candid snaps, captured on the street. Richard well deserved the four documentary episodes on Sky Arts that celebrated his career from a fledgling paparazzo with Bailey & Litchfield’s Ritz newspaper to the respected portrait and event photographer he is today. Interestingly, Ritz, a collaboration between David Bailey and David Litchfield, still gets credited to Patrick [Lord] Lichfield, the late society photographer – who, for once, was totally innocent! It was good to see that Young’s wife, Susan, was given proper credit for helping Richard realise his full commercial potential and their new gallery project in Kensington is well worth getting to know.
Sky Arts is rapidly becoming the channel for arts coverage. Photography and related subject matter has been a staple in recent scheduling and some hypnotic material has been broadcast, mostly as hour-long, in-depth programmes, by independent film-makers who clearly approached their subject with a passion. For example: James Crump’s documentary about the intimacy between collector Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (Black White + Grey); and Paul Hasegawa-Overacker's wacky (but riveting) film diary on his short lived affair with the illusive Cindy Sherman (Guest of Cindy Sherman). Especially his run-in with Julian Schnabel at one gallery opening. IN AND OUT OF FOCUS Sky Arts has recently scheduled a host of quality, artist-led biographies that incorporate Charles Saatchi and photography in Chelsea some fascinating archive footage, and interviews impossible to repeat now due to the 10 death of the subject. Henri Cartier-Bresson immediately springs to mind. And the channel does not shy away from more controversial individuals, film profiles on Andres Serrano and Charles Gatewood being prime examples.
As STATE/f22 ever expands its range of participating distributors around the UK, the editors always welcome a recommendation from readers for arts venues that might 40 PERISCOPE stock and display the magazine packs. As ever, it’s delivered free – and free to give away! Check out these hot shows in PARIS Mike von Joel, Editor
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There you are walking down the street when you see a beautiful potential photograph but you left your heavy old SLR behind. Richard Young If only there was something smaller that could really deliver. Charles Saatchi. London Photographers never seem to tire of discussing the pros and cons of compact systems versus SLR’s. It is tempting to zone out U RICHARD YOUNG was born in London at times but at Olympus, we’ve listened. and began a career as a freelance Compact system fans have told us that small size and low weight are critical to them but have been clamouring for fast MFT photographer specialising in the celebrity prime lenses for added creative potential. DSLR devotees insist that there’s no middle ground if you’re after depth of field control culture of the late 70's and 80's. Lord and quick fire reaction shots. We think they’re missing a trick. Let’s face it, most of us would rather not lug three kilos of body Snowdon has described him as: ‘one of the and glass around if we could avoid it. most important photographers of 20th century’. Today Richard Young is accepted EDGAR MARTINS SHELF LIFE So we’ve achieved what everyone said was impossible. Allow us to introduce the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 12mm 1:2.0, as the leading celebrity photographer of At Wapping Bankside New books of merit which is equivalent to a classic 24mm street lens in 35mm terms. Thanks to our legendary optical skills you can get ultra-sharp his generation and in May was the subject 19 20 detail at maximum aperture. What's more it comes fitted with a snap focus ring with good old fashioned distance settings. So of a 4 part biographical series on Sky Arts. now you can switch to manual focus and choose a zone in an instant; perfect for old school street shots. 06 IN FOCUS 09 GREAT UNSEEN PHOTOS NEW ©Richard Young/Richard Young Gallery And as the focusing speeds of the latest PEN range now match or exceed those of far larger and pricier SLR's you can switch 07 SNAPSHOT 09 URLS COURT back to AF and still catch that all important moment. But since pictures speak louder than words, take a look at the evidence. We used an E-P3 and the 12mm lens to capture this beautiful image. And the best part? This lens is available now and will fit any Micro Four Thirds body, including the new PENs. A PEOPLE | PLACES | PROJECTS EDITOR SPECIAL Don't worry, we haven’t finished listening but for now, go on, get in the zone. Mike von Joel CORRESPONDENTS [email protected] Clare Henry f22 Magazine is available through selected galleries, libraries, PUBLISHER Kenn Taylor art schools, museums and other art venues across the UK. Karl Skogland Ian McKay [email protected] William Varley M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 12mm 1:2.0 Georgina Turner c TOTALLY FREE, f22 is not a dull f22 is interactive. We value your DESIGN DIRECTOR review magazine – it is about recommendations. Tor Soreide BUREAU CHIEFS CORRESPONDENTS PUBLISHED BY [email protected] William Wright State Media Ltd PEOPLE worth serious consideration; Lyle Owerko Tell us: [email protected] PEN mini PEN Lite PEN SYDNEY LONDON ADMINISTRATION NEW YORK PLACES that are hot and happening; Elizabeth Crompton [email protected] Julie Milne Anne Chabrol MELBOURNE and PROJECTS that will interest To apply to stock f22 Magazine, email [email protected] PARIS DISTRIBUTION PRINTED BY photographers. Combined with STATE Julie Milne: [email protected] ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES David Tidball Julie Milne Garnett Dickinson Magazine, f22 reports the fusion of James Manning BERLIN [email protected] Rotherham S63 5DL art + photography like no other with a truly international perspective. www.f22magazine.com
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AS ONE OF the hottest new London talents, Ann-Marie Ann-Marie's practice includes painting, drawing, already have an established cultural reading, that James was born in 1981, has studied at Central Saint photography and sculptural intervention, and involves I then wrestle with, adapt, play with, transform and Martin’s and Chelsea College of Art & Design, and is the appropriation and transmutation of found imagery. manipulate, and then imbue with a new spirit to my about to graduate with an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon Her latest body of work is based on the myth of Apollo own end'. College of Art, but already she has developed quite a & Daphne via Bernini's eponymous sculpture at the following. A recent show at Edel Assanti gallery was a sell Villa Borghese in Rome and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The results are sublime – complex layers of elegant out, and a forthcoming solo show at Karsten Schubert's She says: 'I love art and art history and what I love about limbs and gestural marks, the figurative and the abstract, gallery in February 2013 is sure to shoot her career to being an artist is having the opportunity to appropriate in gorgeous grey-tones that make you love painting all stellar heights. elements of art works that I feel an affinity with, which over again.
1 1 James Barnor Mike Eghan at Piccadilly Circus Bruce Davidson Girl with kitten 1960 (Detail) London 1967 © James Barnor / Autograph ABP ©Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos Iconic Photographs ANOTHER LONDON: Donated to Tate INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS CAPTURE CITY LIFE VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS of London have been promised to the Tate. Created over twenty 27 JULY - 16 SEPT. LINBURY GALLERIES years, the Eric and Louise Franck London 1 Man Ray Glass Tears 1933 From Henri Cartier-Bresson to Eve Arnold, Collection comprises some 1400 photo- Tate Britain will show over 150 classic graphs by 120 artists from the 1880’s to the Man Ray Archive Being Hived Off photographs that depict the city and its 2000’s. It also provides an important survey communities from the 1930’s to 1980’s of photographic processes like cyanotypes, MAN RAY, a pioneering photographer and contracts worth roughly $300,000 a year. by photographers for whom London was albumen prints, silver gelatin prints and chum of Picasso and Dalí, died in Paris in Of late he has made approaches to the a foreign city. colour prints. The subject matter is the lives 1976, but what's left of his archive is Centre Pompidou in Paris and the and communities of a single city, London, stored in a car-repair shop on New York's Smithsonian's American Art Museum in HHHHH and is valued at over £1million –the largest Long Island. This is the HQ of the Man Ray Washington; neither could pay Browner’s gift of photography ever made to Tate. Trust, 16 freezer-size vaults contain about $20m asking price. Leading artists include Henri Cartier-Bresson, 4,500 works from the artist's estate John Pritzker owns Man Ray's 1933 Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank including props Man Ray used to make Glass Tears, a close-up of a woman's eye and Irving Penn. The remaining work in the some of his experimental, camera-free surrounded by glass droplets –believed total collection will be acquired on a purchase images, called Rayographs. to be the first photograph ever to top $1m. basis. Since Juliet Man Ray’s death everything New York's Roz Jacobs owns Le Violon It follows recent gifts of photographs by has filtered down to her extended family d'Ingres, a famous 1924 print of Kiki de Don McCullin, a major vintage print of and the garage/shop, owned by Juliet’s Montparnasse, a pair of black F-holes on London by Henri Cartier-Bresson as well as brother, Eric Browner. The 86-year-old only her naked back, as though she were contemporary film works by Tacita Dean and met Man Ray once, today, he manages a violin (estimated value: $3m). Jaki Irvine. Source: Tate Gallery 15,000 copyrights and oversees licensing Source: Wall Street Journal 1 Edward Tang and Tracey Emin
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The Nikon Fisheye Can See Behind Itself 1 Richard Young and Sir David Tang INTRODUCED in 1970 at Photokina, it was the most extreme fisheye lens of all time, a POSITIVE VIEW FOUNDATION 10lb glass dome which dwarfs the camera attached. The 6mm f/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor lens, Massive Photo Gift From Trustee A not-for-profit organisation founded by picture angle: 220º, weight: 5200g, is offered Sir David Tang and Lady Foster will hold all by Grays of Westminster at £100,000. The THE BOSTON MUSEUM of Fine Arts has 100 each by Imogen Cunningham and its major exhibitions at London’s Somerset Nikon 6mm lens prototype was never put into received a gift of 6,000 photographs, Brett Weston, Edward’s son. House, its official Gallery Partner. The full production, but was made to order from 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings The Lanes were pioneering collectors in inaugural exhibition is Henri Cartier- 1972. Jeremy Gilbert, Group Marketing from William Lane, a trustee and longtime the fields of early American modernist Bresson: the Legacy (8 November - Manager at Nikon UK says: ‘The 6mm f2.8 is friend of the museum. It is valued at painting and photography at a time when 27 January 2013) a showcase of his an incredibly rare lens designed for scientific hundreds of millions of dollars. The neither field had much prestige. The owner unseen experimental colour works along- and meteorological use. It represents the donation includes the entire photographic of a plastics manufacturing company side photographers including Martin Parr pinnacle in design, from a time when lenses estate of Charles Sheeler –2,500 based in Leominster, William Lane was and Fred Herzog. The Foundation further had to be designed with a slide rule and photographs –and the same number zealous about art, and set up the William H. exists to provide photography grants to individual ray diagrams. The lens does see of photographs by Edward Weston. Lane Foundation in 1953 to promote the charities working with disadvantaged young slightly behind itself at 220 degrees –you Complementing these are 500 artists whose work he collected. people and to encourage broad and dynamic see your feet in every picture!’ Source: AP photographs by Ansel Adams, and Source: Boston Globe discussion and debate. These events include its Annual Patrons Dinner and an Annual Photography Symposium.
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ALEX PROUD 1 Ghosts on Stairs at Nieuwe Looierstraat 24 1 Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse 6. What is the first photographic image you can 42. In commercial terms, is there a perceived take over her life: ‘One day spot so people are confronted remember and why? divide between film and digital – a sort of ‘Moving forward by looking back’ I just got rid of everything with the past of a location there I immediately think of the Belgrano sinking in before and after aesthetic? modern.’ and then.’ 1982 during the Falklands conflict. That is my For some collectors, but I see no difference in first real memory of photography changing me. the market. The photo-montage work of Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse The basis of this particular It sounds an ideal proposition for project was a cache of some 300 an Augmented Reality venture? 12. What made you to decide to open not one - 48. What did you learn from your previous JO HEDWIG TEEUWISSE does not ‘Amsterdam-based lifestyle, from clothing and the negatives found in a flea market. but three - specialist photography spaces in collaboration with the photographer, Rankin? claim to be wholly original with interior of her home, to her job as Jo identified the locations and [1] Central London? Rankin taught me to go with your gut, be her historic composites –other Teeuwisse has a historian and archivist. She is took a contemporary shot before NOTES I launched Proud Central in 1998. We had great brave, be passionate and not to worry what Dutch photographers work in created a life a familiar sight on the streets of using Photoshop to marry the two 1. Researching daily life before and success in that small venue – some amazing anyone thinks. I learnt a lot from that the same vein and the young Amsterdam with her authentic, images together, and to dissolve during the Second World War, also exhibitions, fantastic launch parties, lots of partnership. Russian, Sergey Larenkov, where the past is 30’s apparel and vintage the intervening 60+ years, which interviewing eye witnesses and attention from the media – and we were having travelled extensively to locate the bicycle. in turn will maybe make people recreating certain aspects of history to too much fun to stop! Next came Camden and 54. Do you own a camera and do you take sites for his photo-fusions. But her present – ‘realise that the past is all around gain a unique insight into that era. then Proud Chelsea on the King’s Road. photographs yourself? (if no please explain JHT brings to her recreations a literally’ ‘I went to Film School and was a us and that things happened LINKS why not) 1 Joel Ingham 2011. Courtesy Jamie Wardley certain sensitivity born out of her film/TV director and writer for a where they are walking, where 18. www.hab3045.nl Do you have a common philosophy for the My old Olympus OM-10 has seen better days. very real passion for the 1930’s, Amsterdam-based Teeuwisse while. Everything I worked on had they live, where they work’. www.flickr.com/photos/hab3045 three galleries or are you trying for individual However, I love the camera on my iPhone4S. Light Painting in North Yorkshire and a focus firmly on the ordinary has created a life where the past a historical theme...’, Jo recollects. identities. It allows you to be completely spontaneous people she portrays as opposed is her present –literally. She has ‘I would love to see photos OTHER LINKS It's been a very organic process. Each of the (something else I learnt from Rankin) which I STAGED DURING Britain’s recent long exposure technique used to create to the harshness of wartime deliberately recreated the late But it was an overriding like this made across the world www.diplopic.nl galleries has found its own specialty. Chelsea think is probably more important to an amateur ‘Super Moon’, a series of spectacular images that use no digital tools. The crew events. 1930’s as her day-to-day passion that was to completely and then displayed on that sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com is rapidly becoming a serious collector's venue, than the camera. I also like my Leica Compact spirographs were created by were moving so quickly they remained selling to major names in the industry and because it's fast. environmental artist, Jamie Wardley, invisible. ‘Personally I find this temporary attracting top photographers to exhibit. who travelled to Cayton Bay in North art refreshing –each time I create a URLS COURT | LINKS 60. If we could gift you [any] single image in Yorkshire. ‘My team used flame lamps drawing, it’s like started anew.’ 24. What would your ideal exhibition be? the world – what would it be and why did you and torches to create the light effects in www.sandsculptureice.co.uk ... to find unseen material from one of the top choose it? a process called light painting. This is a five or ten legendary photographers. It can Ansel Adams is a poet. His work is something with the world’s foremost platform and staff actively happen, it's bloody unlikely, but I think that's I never grow bored of. Now or Never designers, creatifs and thinkers encourage contributions, the fantasy. 2012 Kraszna-Krausz in the luxury industry, offering a something they might well come Awards WHAT HAPPENS when one of the Guerlain fragrances; and Louis neat resource for high-end fashion to regret in the near future. But 30. What should the would-be collector look for ALEX PROUD Best Photography Book Award: Carleton richest companies in the world Vuitton, the French maker of and culture (including a Chinese meanwhile –log on and enjoy in a photograph (or indeed, a photographer)? Brighton-born Alex Proud spends a lot of time at the Watkins The Complete Mammoth decides to launch an interactive laminated canvas handbags. language version, all content is some interesting art and First and foremost: something you love and Camden outpost of his empire, where his ebullient Photographs, Weston Naef & Christine website about contemporary arts Vuitton was just named the world’s optioned in both English and photography stuff. want to live with. Second, the vintage. Third, a personality is perfectly able to deal with the cut and Hult-Lewis. Getty Publications. and global lifestyle, previewing the most valuable luxury brand for a Chinese). signature. These are the three steps I always thrust of music club excess and extreme rock‘n’roll Best Moving Image Book Award: latest in fashion, art, film, music, seventh consecutive year and is nowness.com follow with my own collection. disorder. The other aspects to his business are much Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as architecture and design, travel, calculated at around £17 billion, In 2011, nowness.com won a more sober and two serious photography galleries, Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's sport, and gastronomy? about a third of LVMH’s market Webby Award for Best Fashion 36. There is a fusion today of art and Central, just off the Strand and also in Chelsea’s Night and Fog, Max Silverman & Griselda capitalisation of some £50 billion. Website, WWD Japan’s Best photography, has pure photography been King’s Road, have been quietly building a solid Pollock, Berghahn Books. An Outstanding That company is Moët Hennessy Fashion Media Award and a Clio marginalised by this? reputation with consistently innovative, quality Contribution to Publishing award was Louis Vuitton (aka LVMH) whose That website is called Award for Best Interactive Website. Certainly not! It has grown massively as a exhibition programmes. made to UK publisher Dewi Lewis. The luxury brands stretch from nowness.com, launched in 2010 You can receive tailored story result. With the rise of those other digital winners were announced during the Sony TAG Heuer to Givenchy, from and editorially independent of recommendations based on what techniques, people are increasingly drawn With thanks to Liz Thornhill at Central. Alex’ image by World Photography Awards at the London Glenmorangie whisky to Cloudy LVMH, and is quite brilliant. Each you Love/Don’t Love as well as link to pure photography. Andy Fallon courtesy Proud Gallery. Hilton, Park Lane, on Thursday, Bay wine; Christian Dior and day, it showcases collaborations via Facebook. Nowness is an open Bernard Arnault CEO of LVMH 1 Dewi Lewis 26 April 2012.
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7 Mohau Modisakeng Untitled 2010 C-print on watercolour paper © Mohau Modisakeng, 2010
UST PRIOR to the Great spoke several languages, knew a great people he is neither interested in, or Collector? Dealer? War, a bluff American deal about art and a graduate of the respects. Also like Barnes, Saatchi is Patron? Philanthropist? appeared at the cutting Sorbonne’. They married in 1973 after five involved in every detail of an exhibition his But Charles Saatchi has maintained a edge of the Paris art world years together. Lockhart had a particular gallery presents, hanging each show with parallel career since the 1970’s. Once the –then indisputably the penchant for Minimalism at this time and a professional confidence and sure eye real cash began to roll in, he was able to epicentre of modern the first acquisitions the pair made were (‘...if I didn’t have the pleasure of planning do what most of us would love to do – painting. Albert Barnes from this school, sourced primarily from and installing shows, and doing it better buy the art we like and acquire multiple had made his fortune the Lisson Gallery. Charles’ own first than anyone else, I would have stopped examples of the artist’s work. Saatchi did out of medicine and purchase was reputedly by Sol LeWitt, buying art many years ago’). this on an industrial scale from the late pharmaceuticals but, in a very minimal minimalist. 1970’s onwards. By 1985 he had enough his early 30’s, dedicated himself to his real Given Saatchi’s driven nature it must have to fill a stadium gallery space – and so he passion –art. Having serious money and a Paying the Piper been a serious blow when in 1994 the created one. The Saatchi Gallery opened in Jnatural eye, and with plenty of attitude, By 1970 and at only 27 years old, Saatchi, brothers, surfing on a wave of some 20 Boundary Road, St John’s Wood, London, Barnes mingled amongst fellow ex-pats in along with brother Maurice, was running his years of industry adulation, were forced a former paint factory of some 30,000 the French capital, notably Gertrude and own agency, one that was to be regarded out of Saatchi & Saatchi in a shareholders square feet. The launch exhibition was held Leo Stein, with whom he met Henri Matisse as epitomising the new international coup. Their 1987 attempt to take over that March and featured American minimalist and Pablo Picasso. Later, the art dealer Paul Donald Judd, painters Brice Marden and Guillaume would introduce Barnes to the Cy Twombly – and Andy Warhol. work of Giorgio de Chirico, Chaim Soutine Reportedly, a UK first for Twombly and and Amedeo Modigliani, amongst other Marden. Subsequent exhibitions were embryonic giants of 20th century painting. equally visionary and bravura performances. Barnes subsequently acquired 69 Legend has it that the Richard Serra Cézannes, 60 Matisse works, 44 Picassos exhibition sculptures were so large that the and 181 Renoir pictures. Eventually, the caretaker’s flat was demolished to make 2,500 items in his collection would include room for them. The gallery also enabled major pieces by Rousseau, Modigliani, Richard Wilson to find a home for his piece Soutine, Seurat, Degas and van Gogh. 20:50, a room entirely filled with sump oil, Today the Barnes collection is valued at which has since become a permanent, 20 to 30 billion US dollars. shrine-like feature of the Saatchi collection.
Famously ‘shy’ and irascible, in 1925 The Boundary Road gallery was a stunning
Barnes formed a foundation and private space and the public were welcomed in gallery which encouraged ordinary people free of charge to experience the works.
and students in to view the works – then Boundary Road successfully fulfilled the considered very avant-garde – whilst criteria of any art gallery worthy of the title: 1 Saatchi Gallery Int.: Work by Mat Collishaw © Stephen White. Out Of Focus combating antagonism and ridicule from to elucidate, educate and facilitate – and it the US art establishment. He personally ( did not cost the taxpayer a cent.(2) hung the galleries and specified the ‘...nothing is as uplifting as standing configuration of each room in detail. Local As with Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo and steelworkers were allowed easy access, before a great painting whether it was Randolph Hearst, Saatchi’s personal but those he considered from the self inaccessibility to the media and public serving art ‘establishment’ fared less well. painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.’ microscope has resulted in him taking on TS Eliot’s request for admission was ( CHARLES SAATCHI mythical status. It’s a clever schtick that famously rebuffed with one word: Nuts. has served him well. But his considerable culture of media manipulation: Saatchi Midland Bank had ignominiously failed, achievements and repeated public-spirited It is difficult to think of the Barnes & Saatchi. Charles Saatchi was a gifted but it’s pretty sure that what didn’t fail was generosity (in sharp contrast to his wheeler- Foundation and its idiosyncratic founder copy-writer and still retains a practised Charles Saatchi’s harsh lesson in what dealer nature) are there for all to see.(3) without Charles Saatchi springing to mind. skill with words and language, his recent happens when the ‘establishment’ decides Both men, highly creative personalities publications are wonderfully droll and some upstart needs taking down a peg or Young British Artists with a true passion for painting and the amusing – also highly incisive and two. Bureaucracy in England is passive Saatchi was allegedly one of the very notion of art as a redeeming human informed.(1) Back then Saatchi was no aggressive in nature and overweeningly few visitors to the now mythical Freeze process, have similar life trajectories. marathon lunch man. Ad-guru, John incompetent in practise. It detests exhibition staged by artist/friends from Hegarty, remembers his tireless drive for enterprise and success unless sanctioned Goldsmith’s College (Steven Adamson; Unlike Barnes, Saatchi came from a success: ‘Charles was completely manic,’ by the few for the few. However, it was a Angela Bulloch; Mat Collishaw; Ian wealthy family – of Iraqi entrepreneurs he says. ‘At CDP they were writing great lesson well learned for when the British Davenport; Angus Fairhurst; Anya Gallaccio; who relocated as refugees to North London ads and then disappearing for a three-hour art ‘establishment’ tried the same tactics Damien Hirst; Gary Hume; Michael Landy; in 1947, when Charles was only four. Fast lunch. If you did that at Saatchi you were sometime later, Saatchi outmanoeuvred Abigail Lane; Sarah Lucas; Lala Meredith- forward to the mid-60’s and Charles was thrown out. We worked with a fantastic it with ease. With typical brio the brothers Vula; Richard Patterson; Simon Patterson; a fledgling copywriter in the London intensity.’ were up and running within the year, at Stephen Park; and Fiona Rae). Collishaw advertising business – an exciting Pop Art M&C Saatchi, generating new industry showed the now famous outsize photo of a world where the Mad Men ethos was still Being fiercely competitive is a trait Saatchi legends (hiring an empty office block gunshot wound to the head (actually little prevalent. Here he met his future wife, shares with the aforementioned Dr. Barnes for the day and filling it with actors as more than a direct rip-off from Austin Doris Lockhart, an American credited by (who boxed, and played semi-professional ‘employees’ to impress British Airways) Gresham’s Forensic Pathology handbook some with igniting his latent passion for art baseball). Saatchi plays tennis, races and taking some of the former S&S brands and, in fact, a knife wound). What struck – which Saatchi himself declares was go-carts and you beat him at table tennis with them. The rest is ad-land history Saatchi about the YBAs then was the awakened by seeing a Jackson Pollock at your peril. And as with Barnes, the and the 2012 Sunday Times Rich List attitude and indefinable essence of ‘now’. painting in New York. Doris has been famous ‘shy’ act is no more than a conservatively estimated the brother’s His subsequent support of this teen spirit described as ‘a sophisticated woman who convenient way to avoid dealing with wealth at £130 million. has become the stuff of art history.
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It leap-frogged Damien Hirst to star status useless as a gallery space – with endless integral aspect of the art trade since the new Saatchi Gallery on King’s Road, naked children (once a common sight on it gives the opportunity for voices to be No doubt turning down a knighthood will NOTES when Charles funded and purchased dark wood panelling and stultifying lease the Renaissance. He is accused of Chelsea, in 2008. Some 70,000 square Britain’s summer beaches). heard, to be presented as well as they are be a pleasure yet to come. 1. My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. Hirst’s outline concept, sketched on the conditions. A lengthy, fractious battle with irresponsibly ‘de-accessioning’ works feet, in the historic Duke of York’s ever going to be presented. In a world of Phaidon. Be The Worst You Can Be. Booth-Clibborn Editions back of a beer mat, for a huge killer shark the landlords (Shirayama Shokusan Co. back onto the market –as opposed to Headquarters building adjacent to Sloane Now, the selectors (‘curator’ is not a incessant visual noise these images get P. S. swimming in a vitrine of formaldehyde. and Cadogan Leisure Investments) ended disappearing them into permanent storage Square; easily accessible, trending, and popular word at the SG) address the current the chance to be considered singularly, In 2010, Saatchi announced the Chelsea 2. When 98a Boundary Rd was sold to a developer for in a court defeat for Saatchi’s operating as most museums and municipal galleries totally beautiful to behold. It is a triumph. issues of camera art – the overwhelming uninterrupted. The impetus in photography Gallery would be renamed MoCA London ‘14 luxury homes’ it realised [a reported] £10 million. In 1997, Saatchi’s YBA collection became company and a glare of unwelcome, do today. In a world where the monetary The building was refurbished by architects visual cacophony of images being force- today is to create an image that will grab (Museum of Contemporary Art, London) a block-buster Royal Academy exhibition invasive publicity. And the School of Saatchi value of any single artwork is tied to its Paul Davis + Partners and Allford Hall fed to a defenceless audience; the fusion the attention, create a frisson, have some and be gifted to the nation – along with 3. Gifts: 2000: 40 works by young British artists pirouettes through the National Arts Collection Fund. 2002: 50 entitled Sensation. With the benefit of hind- (BBC2), a sort of Opportunity Knocks (they public , it is virtually impossible Monaghan Morris to provide 15 equally- of the photo image with painting, drawing sort of immediate impact. It’s a battle significant artworks – when he retires. To artworks to the Paintings in Hospitals program. 2003: sight it was possible to see, encapsulated preferred X-Factor) for wannabe artists – to run an organisation that acquires and proportioned exhibition spaces; each and information channels; indentifying without rules. There are 38 belligerents at date nothing has been finalised but the Saatchi gave modern sculptures to the Arts Council in this single word, just how percipient despite being fronted by Charles’ elegant exhibits art without it having some effect cool, light and restrained. The inaugural self; making sense of tribal and cultural the Saatchi Gallery spoiling for the fight. news press have reported that the gallery (including Richard Wilson and Marc Quinn) adding to Saatchi-as-curator had become as muse, Rebecca Wilson, who graciously on its perceived value. Perhaps the biggest exhibition was typically inspiring, The imperatives; and anything else that is ‘currently in discussion with potential 100 pieces by 64 young British artists given in 1999. contemporary art morphed decisively into lowered her sights considerably – rapidly confusion is how Saatchi is repeatedly Revolution Continues: New Art From China, eschews the traditional concerns of In June 2012, Charles Saatchi will be 69 government departments’ and that all (4) 4. A Princess Production in association with Rare Day. a branch of the entertainment industry. turned into a pantomime. addressed as if he were some sort of 24 young Chinese artists in a survey of photograph as documentary record. The years old, living near the Chelsea gallery, costs will be covered by the museum Commissioned for BBC 2 by Jacquie Hughes. publically funded institution. In a way this painting, sculpture and installation. And thirty-eight artists from 13 countries seem and happily married for the third time to a itself and by the gallery’s own sources of The Slow Road to Chelsea The criticisms levelled against Charles is a compliment to brand Saatchi, but his it is again free to the public, thanks to a strangely cohesive, or maybe they are cook. His art business has evolved and income, which would include private 5. Out of Focus: Michele Abeles; L. Raphael But Charles Saatchi is not infallible. The Saatchi are, on the whole, based on envy adventures are always paid for by his own collaboration with hot-shot auction house, linked by Charles Saatchi’s particular eye.(5) today –through exhibitions, the truly sponsorship, the restaurant and shop. Agbodjélou; Olaf Breuning; Jonny Briggs; Broomberg drive and ambition for his ideas to become and resentment. He is accused of making resources and skill – and it is this that Phillips de Pury & Co. The work is disparate, but it is linked by the incredible Saatchi website, and other & Chanarin; Elina Brotherus; Anders Clausen; Mat Collishaw; JH Engström; Mitch Epstein; Andreas manifest, seasoned with that old refugee markets with his buying policies – an irritates the art world’s bureaucrats, more artists’ own desire to break rules, play with multiple opportunities that offer young Gefeller; Luis Gispert; Daniel Gordon; Noémie Goudal; cliché of always feeling the outsider used to absolute control though their highly Contemporary boundaries and traduce the ‘what you get people a chance to engage with the Katy Grannan; Matthew Day Jackson; Chris Levine; (particularly acute in class-obsessed selective patronage. And the fact that, Photography Revisited is what you see’ readings of individual practise of image making – is an integral OUT OF FOCUS: Matt Lipps; Ryan McGinley; Mohau Modisakeng; Laurel Britain) has led to errors of judgement. In historically speaking, he has consistently Until 22 July, the Saatchi Gallery is images. It is about indication. part of British culture. What the gallery’s Nakadate; Sohei Nishino; David Noonan; Marlo April 2003, the Saatchi Gallery moved to predicated significant new directions in presenting a survey of new directions in head of development, Rebecca Wilson, has PHOTOGRAPHY Pascual; Mariah Robertson; Phoebe Rudomino; 25 April - 22 July 2012 Hannah Sawtell; David Benjamin Sherry; Berndnaut County Hall on the South Bank. One can contemporary art that national institutions camera art selected by Charles Saatchi In the calm confines of the Saatchi Gallery, described as: ‘the aim to make art more Smilde; Meredyth Sparks; Hannah Starkey; A.L. only imagine the joy of sticking it to the have repeatedly failed to engage with. himself, with input from Rebecca Wilson. It each work has nowhere to hide and the accessible to the mainstream, rather than Steiner; John Stezaker; Mikhael Subotzky; Yumiko apparatchiks from the very core of is ten years since their last major review of innate qualities of the strongest (Grannan; an exclusive artworld pursuit’, has been KOREAN EYE Utsu; Sara VanDerBeek; Nicole Wermers; Jennifer the establishment heartland – and, Grand Old Duke of York’s trending photography, I am a Camera, itself Stezaker; Utsu; Robertson; Agbodjélou; achieved. Whatever Charles Saatchi has 26 July - 9 Sept 2012 West; Pinar Yolaçan. coincidentally, slap between the two Tate It must have been with immense a controversial event due to the inclusion Wermers; for example) shine through. But taken from the contemporary art business, LINKS galleries. A great location – but totally 1 Saatchi Gallery, ex-Duke of York’s HQ satisfaction that Charles Saatchi opened of Tierney Gearon’s images of [her own] Out of Focus is not a matter of good or bad, it is self evident he has repaid it in spades. www.saatchigallery.com
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ESPITE having arrived just a 7 few months ago, to a festival Do Ho Suh Bridging Home 2010 Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial which began planning as far Photo: Thierry Bal back as 2010, Tallant has already made her influence felt: ‘Many of the artists had Dalready been selected, but nothing was confirmed when I arrived. I’ve mainly 1 Untitled been focusing on shaping the curatorial from the series Landscapes Beyond: coherence of the Biennial across our The Burden of Proof (Part II), 2007 programme partners.’ © Edgar Martins 5 Laura Belém This year’s Biennial theme, ‘hospitality’, 5 which unites all of the disparate artists, The Temple of a Thousand Bells 2010 Untitled (Atlanta Georgia) Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial from the series This is not a House, 2009 works and exhibitions, was already in © Edgar Martins place when she took over. However Photo: Alex Wolkowicz Tallant has re-focused this down further to ‘the unexpected guest’. ‘The notion of a guest is interesting,’ she says, ‘we’re guests in the city, the artists are our guests. The art itself is a guest. The notions of hospitality; how long does hospitality last? How long are you willing to offer that? It’s very interesting also with the way in which Liverpool is transforming itself into a tourism and leisure orientated economy.’
When the Biennial began, Liverpool was yet to undergo its vast redevelopment or 1 Lindoso Power Station: Machine Hall from the series The Time Machine 2011 © Edgar Martins win the European Capital of Culture title, a status aided in part by the Biennial itself. This is something which has placed both the festival and the city at the centre of the debate around arts-led regeneration. WAPPING PROJECT: EDGAR MARTINS Tallant sees this as the Liverpool Biennial’s key point of difference from all The Portuguese wunderkind enthralls the UK the other art festivals in the world: ‘Liverpool has an amazing history of TEXT GEORGINA TURNER | IMAGES EDGAR MARTINS arts-led regeneration, going back a very long way. I think it’s absolutely crucial to Tallant wants to address. ‘If you look at E ARE SITTING attachment to these industrial interiors; cordoned road signage, its dull brickwork involve artists, writers, philosophers, and the artists that we’ve had in the Biennial,’ comfortably at his intense light inspects the spit and polished to a smooth brown. These poets, in thinking about how a city rein- she says, ‘it’s incredible really. Some the Wapping Project polished spans of neutral colour. These houses are not logical but they do indeed vents and builds itself. In particular in 7th LIVERPOOL most important contemporary artists of Bankside, Australian interiors are in fact a topographic survey of make metaphysical sense: in reflecting Liverpool, a post-industrial city, where our time and there’s been a few hundred wine in hand. Carefully hydro-electricity generating plants in 20 a claustrophobic non-existence, a it’s possible to ask questions around the of them. What we haven’t always done is brandishing a bulky locations across Portugal, mostly built in serendipitous un-life, the placid threat value of art and its role in urban contexts.’ communicated that. So I am building on book – Edgar Martins’ the optimistic 1950’s and 1970’s when of thudded silence. the existing partnerships the Biennial Wand then displayed on that The Time things were ever keen, ever more efficient. With his concentrated lighting, enhanced The Biennial takes over virtually all of BIENNIAL has, but also bringing in stronger ones, Machine – Geoff Dyer skillfully pitched For Geoff Dyer, Martins has, with these colour, directive lines, contrasts and Liverpool’s cultural venues, along with I hope, that I have built up by working in his droll introduction then, sensibly, works, invented a time category: ‘a symmetries, Martins makes up a space numerous public realm interventions and London for the last 15 years.’ handed the arena to Edgar Martins. For retrospective future as it might have like an actor prepares his face. The images temporary sites across the city. In the In September, the seventh Liverpool Biennial, the there's articulate and there's hyper-verbal: been conceived fifty years ago’. are carefully stage-managed, with each past, because of this vastness, the UK’s largest and most visited visual arts festival, One of her key aims is to highlight Edgar Martins comes galloping at us with nuance in place, nothing left to chance. festival has been criticised for lacking Liverpool as the ‘UK’s Biennial’ and to both. A steady patter and consistent charm Wapping hydraulic power station was the In his series on airports at night, Martins coherence. This is something Tallant has will take place in a city and a global environment emphasise its international role: ‘By comfortably engages his audience. Add to dramatic setting for Martins' This is Not a paints with light: refined patterns of rigid been focusing on since her tenure began: positioning us as the UK’s Biennial, this a vital demeanour and the fortunate House series, now touring. The New York and crack-soft textures infuse striking ‘I’ve been working closely with my very different from its first edition in 1999. With I think we’ll be able to work more physique of a scented dandy with the Times Magazine commissioned Martins to potency into his static images. 1 Edgar Martins Courtesy Nuno Fox colleagues to ensure that when people former director Lewis Biggs moving on, the Biennial productively in terms of collaboration looks of a could-be actor, and you have a address the collapse of the American come to Liverpool, they’ll experience with other partners in the UK, as well pretty good picture of Edgar Martins, Artist setting for spatial and temporal dislocation. housing market and duly published his Most enjoyable, though, is the humour something that feels very fluid, integrated has just appointed a new Artistic Director and CEO, as thinking about strong research Photographer extraordinaire. Portuguese- Space echoes with prophetic resonance. It images in Summer 2009. Then it transpired throughout Martins' work, epitomised by and coherent. I’m thinking about the partnerships internationally. Building born, a childhood in China, living in the UK carries a message of time: the vanishing that Martins had digitally altered his the photographs in The Accidental Theorist. Biennial as a period of time. So it lasts ten Sally Tallant, formerly Head of Programmes at on the idea of research with other cities since 1996, his eloquence is starred with now. (In this) poised turbulence... I set pictures so as to play with certain political In these, a narrative element is introduced weeks, but has eleven weekends. We’ve in the world facing similar issues to around-the-world references, and tuned out to create a topographical inventory of themes, such as the myth of America as by a rare appearance of homo sapiens. This TEXT: KENN TAYLOR developed themes programmed with London’s Serpentine Gallery. Liverpool in terms of post-industry into the academic debates of someone mountains, rivers, roads, volcanoes, etc., a nation of settlers. Offence and outrage humour exploits time-spatial conundrums content for each weekend, so each one and the necessity for rethinking around who has attended London art schools. inspired by early 18th century pictorial followed and the NYT scrapped the images with bold, intense light-strokes and clean will be a mini festival in itself.’ Many of the artworks in this year’s to burst through the very fabric of the urbanism and reinvention.’ traditions and evocations of the sublime. from their website. On his Facebook page, prettiness. The overall effect creates festival will be kept under wraps till nearer shopping district and it will be asking a I first came across Edgar Martins’ But for all its historical evocation, this work Martins has a video that defends his case atmospheres that are strange, kind of the event, but one project Tallant can question around “what are those places?” 7th LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL distinctive photographic images when I is fraught with anxieties about ruin. (It) not (posted 1st November 2011). It is worth tempting... and probably not good for you. reveal continues Liverpool Biennial’s and what is it that lies beneath. I think it For ten weeks every two years in the city of received a landscape of Iceland from his only deals with the physical death of watching to observe his verbal dexterity tradition of interventions into the public will be a very uncanny interruption into Liverpool. The festival comprises the International series Landscape Beyond: The Burden of specific landscapes but also with the death alone (the posting on 26th December, a LINKS realm, literally bringing contemporary art the everyday.’ Exhibition, the John Moores Painting Prize, the Proof. An expanse of speckled, eroded, of landscape as a pictorial theme.’ This is eulogy to his friend Anton Hammerl, killed www.edgarmartins.com Bloomberg New Contemporaries Exhibition and out into the streets: barren rocks in pastel grey are cut across a lot for an image to take on. in Libya, is very moving). EXHIBITION the Independents Biennial. : a touring exhibition ‘We’re working with an Israeli artist Despite the scale and scope of the 15 September – 25 November 2012 by a fume river, rendered precious in More recently, photographs from The This is Not a House called Oded Hirsch, who is making a very Liverpool Biennial, the festival has puffy pink with blue tinges. That is my Time Machine present geometrically Wapping also included some witty images of photographs by Edgar Martins large-scale intervention into Liverpool still often lacked critical attention or description of the image. Here is part of displayed work interiors within human-less from A Metaphysical Survey of British 9 May - 30 June 2012 LINK Wapping Project Bankside, 65a Hopton Street, 1 Sally Tannant Artistic Director 2012 One. It is a sculptural work that will appear recognition and this is also something www.biennial.com Martins’ own explanation of it: ‘...fragile voids. It’s salutary stuff, not nostalgic but Dwellings. A windowless house that London SE1 9LR landscapes stage cultural dramas. It is the sanitary. Edgar Martins lends a clinical refuses light is islanded by a yellow www.thewappingprojectbankside.com for tour details
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7 Climbing into the studio car at Paramount Studios after her photo session with Bob Fraker. 1953
candid shots. The large format does justice to the full page reproductions and, as Willoughby notes, she might be covered in grime for the part but she still sprayed herself with ‘$100 an ounce Joy perfume’. Hepburn was at all times exquisitely chic, Givenchy being a perennial, favourite designer. This may have a lot to do with her wretched childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe and her experience of real and personal deprivations.
Throughout her marriages – Mel Ferrer (1954–1968), Andrea Dotti (1969–1982), and partner until her death, Robert Wolders (1980–1993) –children and semi-retirement, Hepburn welcomed Willoughby’s camera into her personal domain. She worked tirelessly for UNICEF later in life, dying in Switzerland of cancer in 1993, aged 63.
A Los Angeles native, Bob Willoughby became one of the premier celebrity photographers of his day –when all stars were from the movie world, taking memorable snaps of Marilyn
1 Downtown Los Angeles. 1965 Hopper’s camera5 of choicePhotographer at this timeBob Frakerwas the looking Nikon F loaded with Tri-X film. An ideal tool for street photography which performed well in low light conditions as well as sunlight. His street shots through his camera at Audrey at have been compared favourably to Robert Frank’s seminalParamount work: Studios. The Americans. 1953
1 Martini & Rossi 1958 Fashion photography is the new influence on aspirational magazine advertising 1 Pontiac 1958 On location photography that reinforces the brand image
(‘selling a Nazi car in a Jewish town’ - gems still have the power to surprise George Lois) is the stuff of legend. In and engage. Ads then were as they are the UK, it was heroin addict Robert now –aspirational –it is just that Brownjohn (1925-1970) actually born aspirations have changed. But what MAD DOGS AND in the US of British parents. He worked has not changed is the basic fact that for McCann Erickson in London, where ads work! ‘Running a business without his graphic sensibilities were heavily advertising is like winking at a girl in influenced by the Bauhaus and the dark’, said S.H. Britt, ‘you know László Moholy-Nagy. what you are doing, but no one else does!’ As television ushered in a AD-BIZ-MEN The accent of these volumes is global market, where image quashed essentially American, a world leader in language as the prime element, a new Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane the whole concept of ‘advertising’. As breed of mad men emerged. But the Fonda. He is latterly credited with Those days of wine and roses the Sixties opened for business, the frontier days were over. ‘There is no giving the movie-still the gravitas graphic artist remained such thing as of the photojournalist, and paving HE BRITISH fell in love a key ingredient of print a golden time’, the way for many great names to with the first C4 television ads, and leafing ‘The overwhelming says UK ad-guru A THING OF BEAUTY follow (for example, the Magnum series of Mad Men, that through the pages John Hegarty, Capturing Hollywood starshine photographers on the set of The urbane look at the world of volume one (The dynamic was: ‘if you have Misfits, ten years later). After a long of Madison Avenue Fifties) it is not an idea it can period in Ireland, Willoughby lived in advertising at the dawn difficult to see where smoking, drinking transform the HE AMERICAN that Oscar-winning US initiation, to Vence, France, where he died of cancer Tof the 1960’s. Brooks Brothers suits, CalArts graduate Eric and eating.’ industry – photographer Bob the pinnacle of My Fair Lady in 1963, on 18 December 2009, aged 72. button-down collars, with Chivas Fischl got started. anytime’. Willoughby (1927-2009) Willoughby recorded the winsome Regal on tap all day and martini Pioneered by the New Maybe so. had captured many beauty at work and in the intimacy of lunches –against a backdrop of York Times, by the time the colour But remember the days when: ‘Andy leading ladies as a her home and private life. It was one of beehive hair and stiletto heels –what supplements were launched in the UK Warhol flies Braniff...’ Hollywood studio snapper the great creative, platonic love affairs was there not to like? The current (in 1962, Sunday Times) photography T(his big break was to photograph Judy of the lens and its subject. series has not done so well following a was the dominant element and world Garland during the filming of A Star is move to Sky Atlantic (creator Matthew class lensmen were tempted in by the Born in 1954). But it is every celebrity Willoughby’s camera captures the Weiner left it a little bit too long) but excessive amounts of money available photographers’ dream to build an very essence of the movie business, the time gap was plugged neatly by a in this brave new world. Ads became intimate professional relationship with the grind behind the glitz, and the Taschen boxed twin pack: Mid-Century full page, as opposed to small etched unique access to a major star. When pressure on a woman trying to Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men blocks, and full colour in response Willoughby met the Belgian-born survive in a cut-throat and unforgiving Era, surveying the Fifties and Sixties. 1 American Airlines 1953 The graphic artist reigns supreme to the developments in lithographic actress, Audrey Hepburn, such a industry. Hepburn fans will be sorry print technology. relationship was formed. In 1953 she to see that her other iconic film, AUDREY HEPBURN: Marshall McLuhan noted that MID-CENTURY ADS: was a novice starlet doing publicity for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961, is PHOTOGRAPHS 1953-1966 ‘advertising is the cave painting of the into the swinging decade of colour ‘mini-movies’ –spawned its own galaxy The overwhelming dynamic was: ADVERTISING FROM THE MAD MEN ERA her first Paramount success, Roman excluded for no apparent reason, Bob Willoughby 20th century’, and the imagery and magazine supplements –and then of heroes and milestone images. 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