The on-going collaboration between Levi’s Japan and Tommy Guerrero has been released. The mexican patterns that were placed on denim pants and jackets before, have now found their way onto flannel shirts. The shirts come in off-white, black and brown, featuring special shoulder patches and buttons.
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Kazuki worked once again on the ZXZ running shoe, this timing dedicating it to musician and friend Ian Brown. A really clean looking sneaker in all black leather with gold details.
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The first institutional exhibition of vintage prints by the late Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). An unsung pioneer of vernacular photography since the Fifties, Weinberger captured a young generation of rebels, who were greatly influenced by American culture.
In 1958, Weinberger met members of a small band of teenagers and began photographing them both at his home, as well as at the public parks and fairgrounds where the group gathered. In post-war Switzerland, these self-named “rebels” (referred to by the Swiss as “Halbstark” or “half strong”) were comprised of working class boys and girls dissatisfied by the conservative climate of the day. They adopted a powerful gang identity expressed in their self styled and homemade clothing–embellished jeans, motorcycle jackets, enlarged belt buckles, which referenced and emulated American icons Marlon Brando (in The Wild One), James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause), Elvis Presley (in the film and album Jailhouse Rock).
Exhibition runs from February 9th to March 26th, 2011
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway 3rd Floor
New York
NY
10012
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground continues Broomberg & Chanarin’s ongoing exploration of the limits and possibilities of photography in a historical moment when both ubiquity and technology have rendered the production and use of documentary images intensely problematic, a vector of enquiry pursued and manifest in their earlier, seminal series; The Red House, The Day Nobody Died and American Landscapes.
The new work is the result of an engagement by the artists with Belfast Exposed, a photographic archive founded in 1983. The archive houses images taken by both professional photo-journalists and ‘civilian’ photographers. Accordingly the archive spans the political, the social and the private, the didactic and the playful.
Opposite – Culture 3 sheet 72, 2010
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Paradise Row Gallery
74 Newman Street
London
W1T 3EL
Sasha Grey, rising adult film and pop-culture star, takes control in her new monograph neü sex, moving out from in front of the camera to behind it, turning the lens on the wild world she inhabits.
“There are so many photos of me, taken by other people, that aesthetically I have no control over. Documenting myself allows me to reflect on the day, on the feelings I am having at that second. When you work in the entertainment industry, there are always surprises; there certainly isn’t one day that is similar to the last. Personally, it’s important to embrace this and appreciate it every day.” Sasha Grey.
Nue Sex will be released on March 29th, 2011.
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With a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, which will star Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst out later in the year. Allen Ginsberg another of the founders of The Beat Generation has had a film based on one of his works, Howl. The poem was originally considered to be obscene, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who published it was arrested and charged. James Franco as Ginsberg talks about his life and art, and his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
In theaters February 25th, 2011
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