EVE ARNOLD – ALL ABOUT EVE

Posted on 2012-03-05

Conceived as a retrospective, the exhibition highlights the true diversity of Arnold’s oeuvre. Photographs of actress Marilyn Monroe, many from the set of ‘The Misfits’ (her final film before her death), will sit beside portraits of other Hollywood and West End legends such as Marlene Dietrich, Somerset Maugham, Arthur Miller, Joan Crawford, Peter O’Toole, Isabella Rossellini and Orson Welles.
Arnold captured many political figures throughout her career for a number of high-profile editorial clients such as The Sunday Times Magazine and during her lifetime as a Magnum photographer, with a number of colour shots of the Queen and former prime ministers such as Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath and John Major. This section includes other documentary photographs depicting political events such as Britain at the time of the 1981 riots and extensive coverage of Malcolm X’s Black Muslim movement in the 1960s.

Opposite – Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits, Nevada 1960

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2012

Art Sensus
7 Howick Place
London
SW1P 1BB

www.artsensus.com

   Tweet

THOMAS RUFF – NUDES

Posted on 2012-03-05

In 2003 Ruff produced the first nudes, culling images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them, enlarging them as far as possible, so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original images. For this exhibition, Ruff has created a series of unique monumental works, enlarged to an imposing scale while, conversely, the rawness and carnality of the original images is blurred to an innuendo. Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities – a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.

Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2012

Gagosian Gallery
17-19 Davies Street
London
W1K 3DE

www.gagosian.com

   Tweet

W. EUGENE SMITH – THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT

Posted on 2012-03-05

In 1957, W. Eugene Smith, a former photographer at Life magazine, moved out of the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York and moved into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City’s wholesale flower district. 821 Sixth Avenue was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them—and countless fascinating, underground characters.
Between 1957 and 1965 W. Eugene Smith made approximately 40,000 exposures both inside the loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue, of the nocturnal jazz scene, and of the street below as seen through his fourth-floor window. He also wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels (4,000 hours) of stereo and mono audiotapes, capturing more than three hundred musicians.

Exhibition runs from May 19th to October 7th, 2012

MOPA
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA
92101

www.mopa.org

   Tweet