Official video for “Fox’s Sunday Best” by Naomi Randall and Tom Gaskell, taken from the album “Naomi Randall with Tom Gaskell” by psychedelic folk songstress Naomi Randall (also of folk duo Somewhen) and producer/multi-instrumentalist Tom Gaskell. Released by Aaahh!!! Real Records.
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TweetA new generation of photographers and video artists explore identity and place in early 21st century Russia alongside the rediscovered works of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, whose colour images of pre-revolutionary Russia are exhibited for the first time in the UK.
When Nicholas II, the last tsar, personally commissioned Prokudin-Gorsky, an early pioneer of colour photography, to document his vast empire he presided over the largest territory in the world. Today, Russia is still a land of dramatic extremes and diversity. Where Prokudin-Gorsky witnessed first-hand the effects of galloping colonisation and the early stirrings of industrialisation, today’s artists work in the aftermath of the empire’s collapse, grappling both with its past and future.
Close and Far showcases the work of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Alexander Gronsky, Dimitri Venkov, Taus Makhacheva, Olya Ivanova and Max Sher.
Exhibition runs through to August 17th, 2014
Calvert 22
22 Calvert Avenue
London
E2 7JP
Martin Parr is one of Britain’s most significant photographers, best known for his sharp eye and cheeky sense of humour. Over his thirty year career he has focused on capturing ordinary people doing ordinary things – at the seaside, in supermarkets, at village country fairs or on holiday abroad. Often highly saturated and brightly coloured Parr has become known as a commentator and recorder of Britain’s finely nuanced class system.
In the 1990s the BBC aired a documentary called Signs of the Times,’ in collaboration with Nicholas Barker and Martin Parr. Directed by Barker, it was an early version of reality television and was seen as a fly-on-the-wall documentary combined with the celebrity show Through the Keyhole’.
An advertisement was placed in the British national and regional press asking for volunteers to be involved in the film. It was to be a show documenting the personal tastes of people in the British home. Two thousand people applied and fifty were chosen, from a range of ages, races, genders and social backgrounds.
Parr was asked by Barker to be the stills photographer on the shoot, and created a subsequent book to accompany the documentary. Each of the titles he and Barker gave the photographs are quotes from people in the film, which inadvertently send themselves up. Subtitled portrait of the nation’s taste’ these photographs give an insightful and amusing view of British taste in the 90s.
Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2014
Beetles & Huxley
3-5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE
Discover the incredible fictions of Joan Fontcuberta in his first major UK exhibition, featuring six conceptually independent narratives that mix fact with fiction and science with art.
“Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.”
– Joan Fontcuberta
Winner of the 2013 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Fontcuberta uses the storytelling capabilities of photographic imagery to create a reality that is convincing, mischievous and visually compelling.
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2014
Opposite – Braohypoda Frustrata from the Herbarium series, 1984
Media Space
Science Museum
Exhibition Rd
London
SW7 2DD
The Marc by Marc Jacobs Men’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection ventures into a period of juvenile prosperity. Influenced by summer festivals and raves, he travels on his journey of self-discovery. Highlights of the collection include hand woven indian ikats, bleached out tribal printed indigos, lurex embroidery, patchwork floral and foulards, color blocked neoprene, and hazy printed silk prints.
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