FREE FREE FRE PHOTOGRAPHY NOW CHARLES SAATCHI 07 IN & OUT OF FOCUS IN CHELSEA Photo: RICHARD YOUNG [f22] www.f22magazine.com 1 “Divorce is not an option.” MARK AND MICHAEL POLISH ACTOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR Portraits by MICHAEL BIRT www.michael-birt.com CONTENTS >> EDITORIAL | 07 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 COVER IMAGE | ISSUE 07 Models: Samantha Hicks and Kelly MacDermott; Equipment: PEN E-P3 and 12mm F2 lens. Venue: London GEAR LIVERPOOL > GET IN THE ZONE 16 Objects of desire 18 Biennial Time 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. 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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 www.f22magazine.com 5 h INFOCUS ANN-MARIE JAMES IMAGE & TEXT CARLA BOREL 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.