Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Graham Nash: Life on the Road
Showing through May 26th at Proud Camden, Life on the Road is a stunning photographic collection of personal and intimate portraits taken by internationally renowned English singer-songwriter and political activist Graham Nash, founding member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. This photographic series, spanning from 1969 to 2003, showcases a unique selection of street photographs and portraits of family and friends featuring Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, David Crosby and other legendary musicians of the 1970s. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn Gang, Summer 1959: BRUCE DAVIDSON
“You’re the only love I’ve ever known, just as long as you stay with me, the whole world is my throne” (Bob Dylan, Beyond Here Lies Nothin’). Columbia Records released Bob Dylan’s thirty-third studio album “Together Through Life” on April 28, 2009. A black-and-white picture portraying a couple of young lovers in the backseat of a car graces its front cover and there’s no need to add anything else. It’s startlingly intimate. It’s authentic. It’s compelling. It’s perfect. It’s so perfect it almost hurts if we consider the original story that inspired it. Read the rest of this entry »
Metalheads by Jörg Brüggemann
“Heavy metal is a phenomenon. Although this musical genre is still ridiculed by many, it is currently more popular and successful around the world than at its supposed peak in the 1980s. Today, so-called metalheads can be found worldwide. No matter who they are or where they come from, they are united by heavy metal across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes” (Metalheads, 2008 – 2011). German photographer Jörg Brüggemann, member of the well-known photographers’ agency Ostkreuz, captures a powerful look inside the contemporary underground heavy metal subculture in his comprehensive and well-documented three-year photo project entitled Metalheads. Read the rest of this entry »
The Kills: Dream & Drive by Kenneth Cappello
In celebration of the band’s tenth year anniversary, The Kills’ Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have just released a special luxury photography book, entitled Dream & Drive, which documents over nine years of the band’s career. It includes an intimate collection of rare and never-before-seen photographs of the band taken over the course of the last decade by their friend, renowned photographer and long-time collaborator Kenneth Cappello. This unique book features photographs ranging from reportage and behind the scenes to press and live shots sourced from over 20,000 photographs of the band and 600 rolls of film. Read the rest of this entry »
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG
Self-annihilating ennui, protest, the feeling of total freedom that brings us closer to the final redemption. It could be a scene from the late 60′s dramas about teenage idealism or disillusionment . A stirring yet static suspension from the glimmering surface of the world we live in. It is precisely this loose allegory about the quest for spiritual enlightenment through the aesthetics of the visionary and psychedelic experience that American artist Neil Krug employs in his playful and sophisticated photography and filmmaking. Read the rest of this entry »
This Is The One: DENNIS MORRIS and THE STONE ROSES
St. Andrews, Scotland. Summer 1990. A tiny independent record shop. A Jackson Pollock-style record cover as the only object in its even tinier window, as if to say “this is the only record you need right now; this is the one”. To a teenager’s ears, to any teenager’s ears, there was no need for words. Read the rest of this entry »
The Vision of a Dum Dum Girl: MALIA JAMES
François Truffaut once wrote, “The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in the first person and will relate what has happened to them. It may be the story of their first love or their most recent; of their political awakening; the story of a trip, a sickness, their military service, their marriage, their last vacation…and it will be enjoyable because it will be true, and new […] The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.” No art form captures the fragility and authenticity of life quite like photography and filmmaking and Malia James’ work can be seen as an unpretentious celebration of the fullness of love in its most universal form. Read the rest of this entry »
WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL: A Photographic History
Originally shown and created by the Brooklyn Museum with Gail Buckland, Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is a major group exhibition exclusively devoted to rock photographers. The summer show includes 166 prints by over 100 iconic photographers and features an original documentary film produced exclusively for the Annenberg Space for Photography. Read the rest of this entry »
A Continent Larger Than Life: “Good Morning Africa”
“We were all homeless and with no family”. A not uncommon story for Bosco Segawa, from Kampala, Uganda. What makes it extraordinary is that he’s the founding member of the M-Lisada Brass Band, a 60 people orchestra of fellow musicians who have fought a difficult past and are aiming for a different future. “Playing at parties and weddings gives us food and money for the place we live in”. Music is passion. Music is love. Music can save your life. Don’t be too surprised if Mozart can go hand in hand with reggae music, or Vivaldi turns into some pop song. Read the rest of this entry »
Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me: Group Art Exhibition
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”, a group art exhibition celebrating David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, will be on display from April 21 to May 12, 2012 at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Following last year’s Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibit, In The Trees – which took place at Clifton’s Brookdale in downtown Los Angeles – this exhibition will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of David Lynch’s film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (1992). The show, curated by producer Rob Wilson in association with David Lynch, will host new works by the artists from the previous exhibition, scale model sculptures of the town of Twin Peaks by stop-motion animation legend, Bruce Bickford and works from David Lynch and three artists who had acting roles in the film and series, James Marshall (James Hurley), Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer) and Richard Beymer (Benjamin Horne). Check out a sneak peek at the exhibition preview after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS 
Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond 
Filming The Music: AG ROJAS 
Coyotes in My Backyard: TRAVIS MILLARD 
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG 
Drenched in The Rain of Dreams: Dimitri Drjuchin 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES: The Art of Jacob Escobedo 