Photography
20 December 2008
Writing on the wall
jessica jenkins
Naples takes its Mafia anguish to the streets
Today, on 20 December, Naples leads Italy on to the streets to protest about political indifference towards the Camorra…
17 December 2008
Northern Dreams
Gentlemen’s entertainment in eastern Wyoming
Speaking of the ‘Aesthetics of emptiness’, Mike Kippenhan also sent us this picture of Northern Dreams (above), a gentlemen’s club in the sparsely populated
11 December 2008
The aesthetics of emptiness
the picture department
Pictures of empty and abandoned spaces in the US and Japan
Abandoned buildings and places have always invited photography.
4 December 2008
Happy go lucky local goes out in style
john l. walters
John Ross’s photo book of pub regulars, lovingly designed by Browns
British pubs close down all the time. But few of these closures are marked by the publication of a beautiful, limited-edition book of photographs. John Ross’s The Wheatsheaf RIP, designed by Browns and printed by Moore, on paper by G. F. Smith, is a paean to the Wheatsheaf, a Young’s boozer in Borough Market near London Bridge, writes John L. Walters.
28 November 2008
MAP/making’s acid test
john l. walters
Music, art and performance in action at the Royal College
What is it about the last Thursday in November in London, asks John L. Walters? There were at least half a dozen events competing for our attention: Sanky doing a D&AD lecture; the launch of the AR’s Emerging Architecture at RIBA; Jost Hochuli at St Bride; the ‘Deface Value’ view at Mutate Britain; and so on . . . The one I opted for was a specially commissioned presentation of live audio-visual work at the Upper Gulbenkian Gallery at the Royal College of Art.
19 November 2008
Guy Le Querrec in Africa
john l. walters
Encores for Magnum photographer at the London Jazz Festival
We’re halfway into the London Jazz Festival, and the annual event has already delivered three great audio-visual experiences, writes John L. Walters, including movies, animation – and now some black and white documentary photography.
4 November 2008
Just like our own dear Queen
the picture department
‘White Obama’ poster conjures up the spirit of Colors on voting day
Coming into town on a damp Tuesday morning, it was cheering to see a graphic design splash on the front page of free newspaper Metro. Reminded us of our own dear Queen, as envisaged by Colors.
15 October 2008
Innocence and experience
liz farrelly
Vintage prints from a Barcelona photography studio in Franco’s time
From 1956 to 1998, FotoRamblas was a photography studio on Barcelona’s main pedestrian boulevard, the forever hip and happening Las Ramblas, writes Liz Farrelly.
11 October 2008
‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?’
john l. walters
New York Magazine celebrates 40 years plus with a handsome special
OK, maybe it’s not a classic cover. But the 40th anniversary issue of New York Magazine has all the other ingredients that non-New Yorkers expect from (and value in) the title: meaty, readable features, effective use of illustration, funny and revealing info-graphics and great photography, such as these punchy portraits (below) of New York actors (‘They’re here, they walk among us’) by Dan Winters. Other subjects include Meryl Streep, Tim Robbins and Robert De Niro. Of course.
22 September 2008
Record design framed
john l. walters
Does ‘Spin’ reduce graphic design to the level of art on a wall?
The Spin exhibition is small, free, easy to find (if you’re in or near London) and won’t take up too much of your time, writes John L. Walters.