Our issue #4 and #5 are now available over at KD Press. They ship internationally…
Lying, Chloë Sevigny, Jena Malone & Leelee Sobieski
When a long weekend brings four women together in the countryside, each of them is forced to navigate the depths of social interaction as virtual strangers. How well do we really know the friends we make in adulthood? And in the age of lies, what can be made of the person who tells untruths so small they serve no obvious purpose?
Director: M Blash
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Jena Malone, Leelee Sobieski, Henry Gummer, Maya GoldSmith, Hailey Wegrn Gross.
SHOOT, Book release party at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
SHOOT, Photography of the Moment at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Thursday September 17, 7-9pm
Shoot: Photography of the Moment presents the work of twenty-six photographers whose work focuses on capturing a moment rather than elaborate lighting setups or controlled, manufactured scenarios. Employing the most basic photographic tools—a single-lens reflex camera and natural light——they must rely on their instincts and their ability to interact with a situation to create a dynamic image. This freewheeling approach reflects an era in which we are increasingly bombarded and saturated by images, and the emotional resonance of images has become an important part of our visual vocabulary.
Shoot documents the influence of an older generation of art photographers, such as the legendary Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, and expands on a younger generation of photographers, including Tim Barber and J.H.
Engström, and Glynnis McDaris, to show how this style has gained traction and influence. With a preface by Stephen Shore and introduction by Penny Martin, Shoot is a remarkable survey of the most innovative contemporary photographers working today.
Featured photographers include:
Stephen Shore, Juergen Teller, Linus Bill, J.H. Engström, Nacho Alegre, Thomas Jepe, Nan Goldin, Mark Borthwick, Jason Nocito, Dash Snow, Ola Rindal, Walter Pfeiffe,r Ari Macopoulos, Yurie Nagashima, Kenneth Cappello, Paul Scheik, Boris Mikailov, Hiromix, Tim Barber, Louise Enhörning, Madi Ju, Wolfgang Tillmans, Glynnis McDaris, Peter Sutherland, Michael Schmelling and Jamie Warren.
Edited by Ken Miller with contributions from Stephen Shore and Penny Martin.
Rizzoli Publishers, New York, 2009. 208 pp., 140 color and black & white illustrations, 9¼x11½”.
French photographer Willy Ronis dead at 99
PARIS — Willy Ronis, the last of France’s postwar greats of photography who captured the essence of Paris in black and white scenes of everyday life, died Saturday. He was 99.
Ronis died at a Paris hospital where he had been admitted days earlier, said Stephane Ledoux, the president of the Eyedea photo agency.
Lovers, nudes and scenes from Paris streets were the mainstay of Ronis’ photographs, which reflect the so-called humanist school of photography in an award-winning career that began in the 1930s and reaped honors for him in France and abroad.
(via AP)
Punk poet and ‘Basketball Diaries’ author Jim Carroll has died
New York punk poet, musician and author Jim Carroll has died of a heart attack, aged 60.
Carroll, who wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries’, died on Friday (September 11) at his Manhattan home, his former wife Rosemary Carroll confirmed.
A heroin addict at 13, Carroll documented his teenage years in ‘The Basketball Diaries’, which was originally published in 1978 and turned into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995.
As well as being revered as a writer, Carroll was embraced by the late 1970s New York punk scene, becoming a punk poet and starting his own band (The Jim Carroll Band) at the behest of Patti Smith.
The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards was also a fan, orchestrating the band a three-album deal with Atlantic Records.
The Jim Carroll Band’s most famous song, ‘People Who Died’ – which you can watch by scrolling down now – was used in Steven Spielberg’s film ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’.
Talking to the New York Times yesterday, Smith paid tribute to Carroll.
“I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognised as the best poet of his generation,” she explained. “The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty.”
Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig also wrote about Carroll’s death on his Twitter page , saying: “I spent a lot of time listening to my dad’s 45 of ‘People Who Died’ back in the day.”
(via NME)
Peter Harris/Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry/Adrian Sherwood: “Higher Powers”
©Morgan O’Donovan
Last Thursday night, the legendary Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry took to the stage of Notting Hill’s legendary Tabernacle venue, creating a legendary night of musical performance. The occasion represented the latest culmination of the artist Peter Harris’s ongoing project, ‘Higher Powers.’ The project began in 2003 as a series of short film portraits which explore themes of mortality, meaning, power/powerlessness, and creativity through a spectacular lineup of guest stars: Uri Geller, David Icke, The Venerable Akong Tulku, Dave Courtney, Ken Russell, Boris Johnson, Peter Tatchell, and of course Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. The second incarnation is a series of paintings and drawings created by Harris and Perry in collaboration at Perry’s mountain hideaway near Zurich. For Thursday night Harris collaborated with animator Llyr Williams to create a video collage sequence using some of the images and themes from the earlier work. The video provided a captivating backdrop to Perry’s poignant musical performance, converting the old Victorian auditorium into a sight of heightened Jah, if only for one night.
©Morgan O’Donovan
‘Higher Powers’ can be viewed in its various forms at the Tabernacle until October 8th. For more information visit: http://www.leescratchperry-peterharris-art.com/
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