LEICA M8.2 SAFARI

Posted on 2009-02-18

If you happen to be nipping off on safari this year, here’s the perfect accessory to go with you – the Leica M8.2 Safari edition. Produced in a limited edition of 500 in a khaki green shade plus matching canvas and leather bag with calfskin strap. In terms of the M8.2 camera itself, it’s an upgraded Leica M8, with 10.3 megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch display, automatic and manual settings, RAW data capture and compatibility with all of Leica’s M-range lenses.

All for the credit crunching price of just over £7,000

www.leica.com

  

GUARDIANS OF SOLITUDE

Posted on 2009-02-18

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by photographer Laura McPhee. “Guardians of Solitude” is built upon McPhee’s work from her 2003-2005 “River of No Return,” series consisting of studies of the landscape and a small rural community in a remote region of central Idaho: Sawtooth Valley. “Guardians of Solitude” celebrates the unsurpassed splendor of a fabled region, while also presenting the environmental complexities of managing a vast landscape in which the needs of ranchers, biologists, miners, tourists, and locals seek a finely delineated balance. In images spanning all seasons, McPhee depicts the magnificence and history of the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho.

The exhibition runs until April 4, 2009

Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street
13th Floor
New York
10022
USA

www.bonnibenrubi.com

  

DAVID BURDENY : ICEBERGS

Posted on 2009-02-18

David Burdeny’s photographs play with time and scale. His imagery suggests a formalized landscape where perspective scale and time momentarily become intangible. The viewer sees repeated dualities of stillness and movement, intense detail with blank atmospheric abstraction, man made objects found in ocean horizons, black and white images printed on colored paper, all reduced to present to the viewer a sublime experience.

The exhibition runs until May 9th, 2009

Young Gallery
Avenue Louise 75b
1050 Brussels

www.younggalleryphoto.com

  

RAY-BAN WAYFARER “COLORIZE” KIT

Posted on 2009-02-16

Seemingly inspired by adidas, this spring see’s Ray-Ban release the “Colorize” kit, which much like adidas Adicolor, bundles a pair of all white Ray-Ban Wayfarers with some markers that can be used to colorize the sunglasses.

www.rayban.com

  

ORIGINALS BY ORIGINALS – JEREMY SCOTT

Posted on 2009-02-16

Adidas have begun releasing the first items from their much anticipated Originals by Originals collection, including collaborations with Kazuki, Jeremy Scott and Alyasha Owerka-Moore. The ultimate statement of Original intent, this baller ups the ante with a supersized tongue and trefoil that’s impossible to ignore! Building on ’80s style perfectly, this new adidas & Jeremy Scott collaboration is finished with a signature outsole and custom lace jewels. Like what you see? Then check the rest of the collection. Now available.

www.adidas.com

  

YSL’S USB HEART

Posted on 2009-02-16

YSL’s latest merger of fashion, technology, and text see’s Yves Saint Laurent’s S/S 2009 Manifesto, photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and featuring Claudia Schiffer distributed on charming heart shaped USB keys thoughout the streets of Paris, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Over half a million copies of the twenty page Manifesto, accompanied by behind the scenes footage, will be disseminated this way, along with a cotton tote bag designed by Pilati to the first 2,000 passers by in each city.

www.ysl.com