ALISTAIR TAYLOR-YOUNG – HOLIDAY

Posted on 2012-08-27

Many of the photographs were shot for Conde Nast Traveller, who Alistair has been working for since its launch fifteen years ago: travelling worldwide to Namibia, India, Italy, Pacific Islands, Tanzania & Sardinia.

Alistair Taylor-Young is a highly sought after British photographer working between fashion, beauty, travel & luxury. His enthusiasm for experimenting with light and lenses give his work a poetic feel. He is best known for his perfume campaigns for Dior, Hermes, Lancome, Dunhill, Isabella Rossellini, Pierre Cardin, Fendi & Armani. His first book The Phone Book was published in 2010, and had a sold-out debut exhibition at The Little Black Gallery in 2011.

Exhibition runs from October 22nd to December 8th, 2012

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

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KOHEI YOSHIYUKI

Posted on 2012-08-27

First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s (Japan, b. 1946) twin projects The Park and Love Hotel ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance.

Yoshiyuki was a young commercial photographer in Tokyo in the early 1970s when he and a colleague walked through Chuo Park in Shinjuku one night. They noticed a couple on the ground, then spectators lurking in the bushes. Fascinated by these illicit games of cat and mouse, Yoshiyuki spent the next six months becoming a participant. “To photograph the voyeurs”, he later wrote, “I needed to be considered one of them”. Returning with his camera, loaded with infrared flashbulbs and film, he photographed in three different Tokyo parks over several years.

Exhibition runs from September 15th to November 25th, 2012

Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP

www.openeye.org.uk

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DAIDO MORIYAMA – TIGHTS + LIPS

Posted on 2012-08-27

This latest group of pictures entitled “Tights” is the development of his famous earlier series “How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido” of 1987, a small selection of images depicting close-up shots of legs in fishnets.The complete series now numbers 20. Our show coincides with a major exhibition at Tate Modern “William Klein/Daido Moriyama” which will chronicle how these two artists have influenced each other, and how they have both explored the cities of New York and Tokyo in their celebrated depictions of modern urban life.

Moriyama is known for his raw, gritty gaze, his portrayal of Japan’s dark underbelly in the post-war era. His early career coincided with the seismic cultural changes in that country as it struggled to cope with the devastation wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moriyama voraciously devoured and regurgitated what he saw – not always intrusively, but there has certainly always been something predatory about his photography. This comes at his own admission; indeed, one of his famous, early books of 1972 is called “Hunter”. In his ceaseless wandering and photographing, we see the artist’s faith in the journey; the idea that by virtue of searching and looking, something will be found. Moriyama inherited this philosophy from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”.

Exhibition runs from September 7th to October 20th, 2012

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com

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