PAOLO ROVERSI JULES WRIGHT NEW DIRECTION AT THE WAPPING PROJECT/ BANKSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY NOW 09 [f22] www.f22magazine.com 1 The Wapping Project –Bankside THOMAS ZANON-LARCHER 65a Hopton Street, London, SE1 9LR Telephone +44 (0)20 7981 9851 FALLING: A PART www.thewappingprojectbankside.com — Monday by appointment 25.01.13–16.03.13 Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–18.00 Telephone for artists’ talks and collectors’ tutorials Photograph: Thomas Zanon-Larcher, Julia Bankside, London – February 2012 “If anyone doubts the ability of the OM-D, tell them to , come and see me and would you know it... now they can!” Damian McGillicuddy - the only photographer to hold five UK Master Photographer of the Year Awards Book up for OM-D events with me and other top photographers at www.olympus.co.uk/promotions CONTENTS >> EDITORIAL | 09 h INFOCUS NINA FOWLER IMAGE & TEXT CARLA BOREL NINA FOWLER's multi-disciplinary practice This use of found imagery relates to Fowler's ART13 in a solo presentation with her encompasses painting, printmaking and interest in other people's archives. After Parisian gallery Dukan Hourdequin. sculpture but focuses above all on drawing. receiving a First in sculpture from Brighton The art trade has always been built on optimism – from the Her meticulously rendered pencil and University, she worked as archivist to former Nina Fowler was born in London in 1981. In studio or darkroom up to the gallery wall it is an essential graphite drawings are infused with a cine- Indica gallerist, John Dunbar, who introduced 2008, she was nominated for the BP Portrait matic quality and draw on a fascination with Fowler to David Courts, the jewellery Prize with her painting of the Royal Ballet ingredient of all creativity. Hollywood's golden age of glamour. The designer who made Keith Richards' famous dancer, Carlos Acosta; and in 2010 her work starting point for her drawings are obscure skull ring, curator James Birch and Barry was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing THE WAVE AFTER WAVE of negativity that pervades movies from film noir and the silent era and Miles (writer and co-director of the Indica Prize. She was the face of The Other Art Fair through extensive research Fowler cherry- gallery and bookshop). Fowler has borrowed 2012, and nominated for the Young Masters contemporary Britain is hitting the Arts hard. The picks images of starlets who held fleeting images from their personal archives to Art Prize. Her work is currently being ramifications of political and commercial incompetence is moments of fame. ‘These actresses may instigate her latest project, Intimate collected by British film, fashion and have been forgotten over time but I feel they Strangers, a series of drawings based on music luminaries such as John redirected to the creative community without hesitation. represent the darker underbelly of fame today these photographs. Londoners can see Maybury, Jude Law, Caroline Issa and They are an easy target for cutbacks (not the salaries of the but with an impenetrable shield of glamour’. these new works in Spring 2013 at London Sharleen Spiteri. apparatchiks who decide these things, you might note) because the benefit of art is made up of indefinable qualities. In today’s lingua franca, a successful exhibition is reduced to one that has the most paying visitors, or one that sells the most work. Apply this reasoning to art history and countless 14 BEASTS OF PALM BEACH ISLINGTONHelmut Koller's fusionART of FAIR FEATURE household names would have been consigned to the dustbin of failure. 09 Photowildlife 50 excels art & photography again The fight to be visible is one that exercises most artists and dealers today. As STATE/f22 ever expands, in 2013 we introduce STATE DISTRIBUTION. It’s an economic way to reach a specialist readership through our network to museums, galleries and arts venues across UK. From leaflets to high quality catalogues. To discuss possibilities simply email [email protected] 40 PERISCOPE Check out these hot Mike von Joel, Editor shows in PARIS I AM A CAMERA JULES WRIGHT COVER IMAGE | ISSUE 09 10 Berlin: Foto & Fetisch 12 The World a Stage ( PAOLO ROVERSI Guinevere in Red Dress 'If I had to describe my by Yves Saint Laurent work in one word, I’d London 1996 say it’s ultimately about desire.' 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The brick buildings, in a Greek last man on the moon, left a camera on Revival style, date back to the 1830’s, with the lunar surface, hoping it would be a combined total of more than 10,200 recovered by future astronauts. The square feet. Hasselblad, used to capture many of the iconic images from the mission, was A breach of contract lawsuit against Ms left with its lens pointing into space on Leibovitz was filed by Art Capital Group for 14 December 1972. $24 million regarding the repayment of loans in 2009. She had borrowed $15.5million after Now 78, he told Bloomberg he thought 1 experiencing financial challenges due to the The irrepressible Darryn Lyons his voyage ‘wasn’t the end but the 1 Is that Ozone? Matelots Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson & Lauren Bacall set sail then recent loss of her father, her mother, beginning’ for manned exploration of the for Liberty Island. and her long-time partner, Susan Sontag, as Moon. ‘I left my Hasselblad camera there somewhere but I didn’t see her in well as the addition of twins to her family. BUST BIG PIX BOUGHT so someday someone would come back BIRT MICHAEL GREATUNSEENPHOTOGRAPHS the darkness. However Art Capital Group subsequently Attention-seeking agent, Darryn Lyons, has acquired the assets of his own defunct photo and find out how much deterioration solar extended the due date for repayment. agency. He has emerged as a shareholder in BPGG Limited which bought Big Pictures, the cosmic radiation had on the glass. TINA BROWN’S Talk The light was very low I think after what happened to Natasha ‘At the end of the evening everyone Under the revised agreement, Ms Leibovitz UK-based agency founded by Lyons 20 years ago, for £164,000. Wouldn’t it have been better to take the magazine launch party something like 15 sec f4. I Richardson(1) – and also to the people had to queue for their return trip back continues to retain control over her work, and camera with me, get the [final] shots, was the media event of subsequently scanned them on a in the Twin Towers 9/11 attack to Manhattan in a grim, brightly lit is still the ‘exclusive agent in the sale of her ACCOUNTANTS RSM Tenon, were appointed to resigned from the company but had retained take the film pack off and then throw the the week for New York Nikon Coolscan scanner. Then I (Towers glimpsed in the background). utilitarian waiting area(2). A few years real property (land) and copyrights’. sell the company’s assets by the high court his position as chairman of the board. Big camera away?’. The Apollo programme in September 1999. I was brought in stitched two overlapping consecutive later the Towers had fallen. The maga- last September, when all staff were made Pictures had been experiencing financial cost American taxpayers more than from London to photograph the party pictures together using a custom ‘At the venue on Liberty Island I zine closed shortly afterwards. I think Annie Leibovitz is selling the buildings redundant and unpaid for their last month at difficulties for some time.