Undefeated celebrates the spirit of the Olympic games with a new T-shirt collection. The athletic-inspired streetwear brand invites French illustrator Pierre Bolide to offer his interpretation of the world sporting event. The final products feature T-shirts with characters involved in various forms of sports capturing the perfect essence of competition.
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With an exceptional eye for the overlooked details of the world around him, O’Brien has faithfully documented the changing urban and social landscape of London over the course of more than 60 years. His spellbinding photographs capture beauty, grace and dignity in the seemingly mundane business of ordinary people going about everyday life, creating a unique record of the London landscape, in a spiralling cycle of demolition, development and re-imagination.
Opposite – Coming and goings at the corner of Brick Lane, 1986
Exhibition runs through till August 26th, 2012
Christ Church Spitalfields
Commercial Street
Shoreditch
London
E1 6LY
In his solo exhibition, Mylayne is presenting works which, through changing lines of vision onto nature, give rise to various levels for perceiving time. In a series of photographs, Mylayne focuses intensively on the reconstruction of observation as a temporal movement. In these pictures, he often does not present the birds at the center, but as tiny figures within the landscape.
They are cut off by the frame, appear blurred, or have already flown away from the pictorial segment. Mylayne often sets the horizon of the landscape very low, so that the sky becomes the dominant background. He repeats a view leading from the ground to a high altitude, just like the flying motion of the birds. In the photographs No. 268, No. 269, and No. 270, all of which were created between February and March 2004, he shows three successively altered views of the same tree. In the photographs, there are respective modifications in the perspectives of a bird sitting on a branch, in the exposure to light, and in the color of the sky, until the tree in the foreground of No. 270 is no longer in focus, and only diffuse shadows indicate the presence of the bird.
The pictures acquire the quality of stills which, as individual images, evoke a filmic succession or an ongoing pictorial sequence. In a subtle fashion, as in No. 284, Février – Mars 2004, Mylayne ushers such traces and equipment of human beings into recognizability in the background as a fence, a wood saw, or a windwheel. The indication of human presence sets a dynamic oscillation between presence and absence in motion, which is repeated in the constantly changing positions of the animals. As in a puzzle picture, the viewer is required to reconstruct Mylayne’s scenes and can recognize the birds with a groping, gliding gaze only after a certain time.
Opposite – No. 301, Mars Avril, 2005
Exhibition runs through till August 25th, 2012
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178
Berlin
An undisputed doyenne of British photography, Dorothy Bohm has been taking pictures for over 70 years. She is one of the most productive and versatile photographers active today, with examples of her work held in public and private collections worldwide. She has published fourteen books and has had numerous one-woman exhibitions. At the age of 88, her enthusiasm for taking pictures continues unabated.
Bohm came to England from Lithuania in 1939 as a girl of fourteen to escape the threat of Nazism. She finished her schooling in Sussex and then studied photography at the Manchester College of Technology. She opened her own photographic studio in Manchester at the age of 21, soon making a name for herself as a portrait photographer.
Frequent visits to the Swiss Lakes soon after the war stimulated her interest in outdoor photography. Impressed by the different quality of light and encouraged by a number of well-known painters and sculptors, she soon exchanged studio portraiture for images of the human figure in its infinite diversity and in its natural environment.
In the early 1980s, encouraged by Andre Kertesz, Dorothy Bohm began experimenting with colour polaroids and found that she no longer wished to photograph in black and white. While her work continued to express her profoundly humane approach to the world, colour gave her the means to pursue her fascination with reflections and surfaces, allowing for a witty exploration of spatial ambiguity, even occasionally verging on abstraction.
Opposite – Stockholm, Sweden 1967
Exhibition runs through till September 8th, 2012
Margaret Street Gallery
63 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SW
The fourth installment in the Bourne film series, which is based on Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne novels. Centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
In theaters August 13th, 2012
TweetA factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall – a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led – goes wrong and he finds himself on the run. Remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger starring and Paul Verhoeven directed version that came out in 1990.
In theaters August 29th, 2012
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