Pretty much everything
Currently on view at Foam, Amsterdam, is a survey of the work of the world famous photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chloé, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are amongst the most important photographers in the world today.
Through 15 September 2010
Shop swap
This summer, KK Outlet welcomes colette to their Hoxton Square space. In return, KesselsKramer has taken over colette, installing a unique range of products, books, and artwork. From ‘divided loyalty’ scarves that allow you to support both KK and colette, to a yes/no cube that makes navigating relationships easy, this collection reflects the agency’s great diversity.
Raquel Nave
Currently on view at Mountain Fold is of “Live Free in Hell,” an exhibition of photography and video by Raquel Nave. The show contains polaroids of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, Nave, her family, and her companions. The snapshots represent the identity exploration of a young woman and the journey of an artist working in her style and medium.
55 Fifth Avenue 18th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Through 17 July 2010
Matthias Schaller
This is the first gallery show in the U.S. for Matthias Schaller who has focused almost exclusively on shooting people-less interiors. Whether photographing photographer’s and architect’s studios, Cardinal’s desks in the Vatican, artist’s palettes or original astronaut suits, Schaller’s series or sequences engage with the spirit of the objects and the environment they inhabit. All his different works follow this strategy of indirect portraiture.
April 16 - May 22, 2010
Helmut Smits
Check out the work of the multidisciplinary Dutch visual artist Helmut Smits. We love ‘The Real Thing’ an installation to filter Coca-Cola into clean drinking water and ‘Full-Colour’ which was made from CMYK soft drinks dispensed in jerrycans.
The Selby in Your Place
We recently got our hands on a copy of ‘The Selby in Your Place’, a book by Californian photographer Todd Selby, who documents real-life spaces and the personalities behind them. The book includes 33 homes with handwritten interviews, complete with doodles, from a cast of creative characters including Karl Lagerfeld, Purple Magazine’s Olivier Zahm, model Erin Wasson, Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler.
Self Service No.32
Look out for the latest issue of Self Service magazine (No.32) and the launch of a new blog featuring unpublished photos from the magazine, behind the scenes footage, fashion obsessions, and new content from their contributors.
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt’s most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site specific installation—that explore her long-standing interest in non-linear perspective and early twentieth century notions of double-consciousness.
Through 10 May 2010
Ryan McGinley
For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture.
Through 17 April 2010
Fashion Loves Hanuk
Hanuk, a former fashion designer turned photographer, opens his first exhibition at Bellhaus, featuring New York’s fashion-ites in various stares of revelry.
Self Service 1-31
Launched 15 years ago, world-renowned fashion magazine Self Service are opening their entire archives with the help of Idea Books. The exhibition/pop-up shop will be housed in the front room at the St Martin’s Lane hotel, London from February 18th-25th. All issues can be purchased, priced according to availability, as well as limited-edition signed posters by David Sims, Terry Richardson, and Roger Deckker.
Partners & Spade Books
Check out two new additions to Partners & Spade′s ongoing publishing program of concept photo books. BENEFITS OF LOOKING UP contemplates the surprising and uplifting moment of finding a balloon trapped in a tree, while I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN looks at explores the seemingly impossible through images of plants growing through cracks in concrete. After dozens of titles with limited print runs, sold only in their gallery and select stores, Harper Collins hope to bring these to a wider audience with purchase available at www.harpercollins.com for $10 each.
Erwin Olaf
The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf’s latest photo and video series, “Hotel” and “Dawn & Dusk,” opened last week at New York’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler. ‘Dawn & Dusk’ mixes colour and black-and-white photography (a departure for Olaf); while ‘Hotel’ sees melancholic images of doll-like nude women in noirish hotel rooms.
Until March 20 at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 West 24th Street, NYC
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Week-end by Alex Prager
Currently on show at Yancy Richardson Gallery NYC is Week-end, an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Alex Prager. Inspired by her native city, Prager’s dramatic portraits of female characters are reminiscent of the work of Guy Bourdin and David Lynch; infused with a dark sense of foreboding. This is the third installment in the photographic trilogy, and will simultaneously be shown at the M + B Gallery in Los Angeles.
January 14 – February 20, 2010
Artists on Their Bicycles New York
The Swiss Institute has just published “Artists on Their Bicycles New York,” a 2010 Calendar, portraying twelve of today’s most famous artists on their bikes, with photography by Luke Wassmann and art direction by Li Inc. Limited Edition of 500, numbered.
Olivier Zahm at Half Gallery
Purple Magazine’s Olivier Zahm is exhibiting recent photos from his online diary at Half Gallery (208 Forsyth Street), New York until January 1.
apartamento 4
Taking a completely new approach in the interior design magazine market, apartamento features real people in real environments, with interiors we can all aspire to rather than over-styled, over-glossy, catalogue-like spreads. The 4th issue is now available in all good magazine stores, and in our opinion is definitely worth picking up.
31 Rue Cambon
We’re excited to learn of the first issue of the new Chanel magazine art directed and designed by Purple’s Olivier Zahm. Named 31 Rue Cambon after the first ever Chanel boutique, it will be distributed worldwide in all of their stores soon.
Elad Lassry
We’re big fans of the work of Elad Lassry. Born in Tel Aviv, but residing in Los Angeles, he works primarily in film and photography. He applies his high-conceptualism-meets-stock photography technique to everything from wolves, flamingos, and falcons to pickles, flowers, and friends, mostly shot in his east Hollywood studio, and shows his knack for upending expected takes on still-life and portraiture. At first his clean, direct shots look like generic commercial photography from the ’70s and ’80s, but the artist’s use of blurs, double exposure and harsh colors make them appear new and riveting. With recent solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and David Kordansky Gallery, and participation in the group show Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum, he clearly is one to watch.