2015 July : EXIT

IRIS APFEL COMES TO ANNABEL’S

Posted on 2015-07-30

Last night Annabel’s welcomed the legendary New York fashion Icon Iris Apfel to host an exclusive dinner to celebrate ‘IRIS’, the highly anticipated documentary about her life.
Screened at the Curzon Mayfair prior to dinner, ‘IRIS’ pairs late documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. Following a welcome introduction by Iris during the drinks reception at Annabel’s, diners then enjoyed burrata with an heirloom tomato salad to start, stone bass with broad beans and pea risotto and sauce vierge to follow and Annabel’s signature bitter chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet to finish.

Throughout the evening, Veuve Clicquot champagne was flowing and guests were treated to Belvedere cocktails including the classic martini, espresso cocktail, and specially created classic Belvedere sours with Iris’ iconic glasses stenciled into the foam!

Notable guests included: Iris Apfel, Charlotte Dellal, Jack Guinness, Markus Lupfer, Nicky Haslam, Ella Catliff, Christopher de Vos, Henry Holland, Roksanda Illincic, Suzy Menkes.

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ZOE LEONARD – ANALOGUE

Posted on 2015-07-27

Analogue, by Zoe Leonard (American, b. 1961), is a landmark project comprising 412 photographs conceived over the course of a decade. Displayed in serial grids and organized into 25 chapters, Analogue documents the eclipsed texture of 20th-century urban life as seen in vanishing mom-and-pop stores and the simultaneous emergence of the global rag trade. Leonard took her own New York neighborhood, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, as a point of departure in the late 1990s. She then followed the circulation of recycled merchandise—used clothing, discarded advertisements, and the old technology of Kodak camera shops—to far-flung markets in Africa, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and the Middle East.

The disappearing storefronts and neglected products are echoed in the obsolete technology the artist used to reproduce them: a vintage 1940s Rolleiflex camera, a tool “left over from the mechanical age,” as Leonard put it, along with gelatin silver and chromogenic printing processes. Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Analogue is positioned in the genealogy of grand visual archives that extends from Eugène Atget’s compendium of Paris to Martha Rosler’s photo-text work on New York’s Bowery. Leonard’s project is an urgent document and a poetic allegory of globalization that reveals the circulation of goods and the homogenization of diverse geographical locations in the 21st century.

Opposite – Chapter 17 from Analogue. 1998–2009

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2015

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St
New York
NY 10019

www.moma.org

RSVP GALLERY X THE WEEKND T-SHIRT

Posted on 2015-07-27

The limited edition t-shirts will be released in conjunction with The Weeknd’s headlining Lollapalooza Music Festival set Friday night. The short-sleeved cotton tee will be available in a black/white colorway and features The Weeknd’s signature “XO” script above the classic RSVP Gallery logo.

The shirt drops Friday, July 31st and will be sold exclusively in-store at the shop (1753 N. Damen Ave, Chicago, Il).

rsvpgallery.com

MARGARET MORTON – A RETROSPECTIVE

Posted on 2015-07-27

Margaret Morton has been engaged with the photographic representation of alternative-built environments and the individuals who construct them for more than twenty-five years. Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan’s homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city’s streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer/Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press). Morton’s most recent book, Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan (University of Washington Press), reveals the otherworldly grandeur of architecturally unique and dramatically sited monuments, which she photographed on several visits to the region.

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2015

Leica Gallery New York
670 Broadway / Suite 500
New York
NY 10012

leica-camera.com

WE WANT MORE

Posted on 2015-07-27

Spurred by the advent of digital technologies, both industries have seen a significant change to the channels and processes for ownership and distribution. The traditional frameworks that once upheld a distance between photographers, fans, stars and their labels have collapsed to allow for new routes and territories in which music photography is produced, shared and consumed.

Where once many music photographers worked to briefs for specific publications, they are now more in control of context and creative direction. Musicians also play a more active role in their own image creation and distribution channels with audiences capturing and sharing their own versions of gigs.

This exhibition offers a subjective viewpoint on this vast arena and is presented across two floors, dedicated in turn to musicians and their fan bases. It includes works commissioned commercially as well as personal projects initiated by the photographers themselves and a selection of creative collaborations whose aim is to unpick the genre of Music Photography, which has become increasingly more difficult to define.

Opposite – Ewen Spencer, From the series UKG, 2013

Exhibition runs through to September 20th, 2015

Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St
London
W1F 7LW

www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk