ROBERT FRANK

Posted on 2009-09-28

Representing an outstanding collection of exquisite rare Frank prints, the exhibition will include iconic images from The Americans, as well as earlier poetic photographs taken in Paris and London. In surveying the early years that solidified Frank’s style and reputation, we celebrate one of the most singular, original voices in the history of photography.

Opposite – Untitled, Chicago, 1956

This exhibition runs until the 9th of January, 2010

Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue
Floor 10
New York
NY
10001
USA

www.robertmann.com

  

TOUT VA DISPARAITRE

Posted on 2009-09-28

Hellen van Meene’s intimate portraits of the awkward drama of adolescence take the conflicted emotions of her teenage subjects and infuse them with a quiet melancholy. She has staged her models in moody rooms of rich color, often using natural light from a nearby window, and dressed them in 19th century draped gowns of silk and lace. The resulting pictures feel like small angst-filled performances, or odd dress up games, where the girls adopt blank stares and mannequin-like poses that only partially conceal their inner lives.

Opposite – untitled #319, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008

This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009

Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
3rd floor
New York
NY
10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

  

SHOWSTUDIO

Posted on 2009-09-28

Our experience of fashion is changing. In these times of instant, digitally-fuelled information, the fashion image is no longer confined to the static world of the printed photograph. Today we are confronted with a dramatic new fashion universe, where photography, film, performance, music, art and technology combine to create an infinitely richer landscape.

Since launching nine years ago, Nick Knight’s fashion website SHOWstudio.com has pioneered the most imaginative and exciting forms of fashion for the Internet. These have both informed and inspired the current fashion revolution. In championing the new medium of fashion film in particular, SHOWstudio.com has harnessed the potential of new technology and the Web to completely reinvent the fashion image and the way we experience it.

This exhibition runs until the 20th of December, 2009

Somerset House
Strand London
WC2R 1LA
UK

www.somersethouse.org.uk

  

THE FUN THEORY

Posted on 2009-09-28

Marketing a car doesn’t simply have to be about marketing a car – promoting its performance and efficiency virtures. VolksWagen has launched new grass roots experiential initiative in Sweden, which is encouraging local consumers to live leaner and greener lives. Rolighetsteorin – or The Fun Theory – has involved a series of ‘social experiments’, videos of which have gone live on YouTube.

  

HIGH

Posted on 2009-09-28

Another example of fashion brands harnessing the increasingly omnipotent medium of film to get their message across, this latest is courtesy of shoe designer Jonathan Kelsey, who teams with director Sara Dunlop and writer Gregory de Roeck to create High, his first foray into movie-making, starring French actress Joana Preiss

  

LEAVES

Posted on 2009-09-28

Swiss Snowboard company Zimtstern has put together a fantastic new commercial – “Leaves”.

Check it out!

www.zimtstern.com