STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED

Posted on 2014-06-10

The first ever filmed document of graffiti, Manfred Kirchheimer’s richly chromatic 16mm tone poem sets images of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn to a soundtrack that interweaves ambient city noises with the gutbucket gospel sound of jazz titan Charles Mingus. Long regarded by cinephiles and hip-hop heads as an obscure cult masterpiece since it premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival, Stations of the Elevated is a celebration of a quintessentially urban art form—at a time when it was largely dismissed as vandalism. With lyrical shots of tagged trains, desolate rail yards, and other details of the urban landscape, it remains a priceless portrait of a bygone era of New York City culture. World premiere of a new restoration.

Screening June 27th, 2014

BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn
NY 11217

www.bam.org/stationsoftheelevated

  

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Posted on 2014-06-10

Hazel and Augustus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that Hazel’s other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they meet and fall in love at a cancer support group. Based upon the novel by John Green.

In theatres June 19th, 2014

thefaultinourstarsmovie.com

  

OCULUS

Posted on 2014-06-10

Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and only wants to move on with his life; but Kaylie, still haunted by that fateful night, is convinced her parents’ deaths were caused by something else altogether: a malevolent supernatural force unleashed through the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home. Determined to prove Tim’s innocence, Kaylie tracks down the mirror, only to learn similar deaths have befallen previous owners over the past century.

In theatres June 13th, 2014

www.oculus2014.com

  

WILL ADLER

Posted on 2014-06-09

Will Adler is a 30 year old west coast photographer known for his distinctive take on the surf world. Adler’s laid back, light infused images, (as often of women surfers as men) convey the spirit and atmosphere of place as much as the action of the sport and have earned him a cult following in surfing and photography circles. For his summer show at Danziger Gallery, Adler is showing pictures from Hawaii, California, and Montauk shot for himself and for magazines such as Juxtapoz, Neon, Surfer, WAX, and The New Yorker, His commercial clients have included Quiksilver, Patagonia, Nike, and Hixsept.

Opposite – Waikiki, 2010

Exhibition runs from July 1st till July 31st, 2014

Danziger Gallery
527 West 23rd Street
New York
10011

www.danzigergallery.com

  

LARRY CLARK – TULSA / TEENAGE LUST

Posted on 2014-06-09

Larry Clark established his reputation in 1971 with the Tulsa series and the eponymous book, which he worked on between 1963 and 1973. The book became an instant classic and launched a true revolution in documentary photography. In graphic black-and-white Clark showed confrontational, autobiographical images focusing on the violent underworld of Tulsa. The use of hard drugs, explicit violence and sex play a prominent role. Tulsa was shot in a new documentary style: subjective, alienated and completely free of any social agenda. Based on Tulsa, Clark received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to realise his next project. This, however, took ten years, due to Clark’s heroin addiction and a prison sentence.

He finally finished his second extremely innovative project, Teenage Lust. In the book that appeared in 1983, his interest in the drug culture had been replaced by sexual obsession. Clark’s own troubled life and that of his friends form the background for the images in this series. Clark combined self-portraits and photos from his youth in Tulsa with images of young male prostitutes he met in Times Square in New York in the early 1980s. It is an incisive document spanning a period of thirty years about a group of youngsters who made a different choice than the typical American Dream.

Opposite – Untitled, 1970

Exhibition runs from June 13th till September 12th, 2014

Foam
Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS
Amsterdam

www.foam.org

  

DR. HAROLD EDGERTON: ABSTRACTIONS

Posted on 2014-06-09

Photography has illuminated so many areas of the 20th century, but none more so than the remarkable work by one of photography’s true pioneers, Dr. Harold Edgerton. As an Institute Professor at MIT, and the inventor of the ‘strobe’ flash in the early 1930’s, the ‘Doc.’ as he was affectionately known, stopped time in its tracks. For the first time we were able to see the wonderful arc of the tennis racket or a bullet breaking a sheet of glass.

A scientist first and foremost he was pivotal in developing early aerial and oceanic reconnaissance. During WWII he pioneered the use of a strobe light powerful enough to take night time reconnaissance images. The resulting images revealed an absence of German forces at key strategic points just prior to the Allied attack on June 6, 1944. He also worked with the famous marine biologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau, inventing underwater photographic techniques and side-scan sonar devices to map the ocean floor. Many journalists, photographers, scientists, inventors, industrialists and naturalists have paid tribute to him for altering the way we look at the world and for controlling and explaining its unseen happenings.

Although he always saw himself primarily as a scientist his legacy survives not only in the scientific advances he made but also in the extraordinary aesthetic and abstract qualities of the images he produced. For sixty years he combined extraordinary engineering talents and aesthetic sensibility, making “frozen movement” part of our modern visual culture.

Opposite – Cows and Flare at Stonehenge Ruins, 1944

Exhibition runs through to August 2nd, 2014

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com