LEICA M6

Posted on 2022-10-10

Two decades after discontinuing the model, the cultural icon now returns for a new generation with a few contemporary upgrades and touches.

The new Leica M6 uses the modern version of the Leica M rangefinder with 0.72x magnification. Optical surfaces are coated to protect against stray light and top covers have been shifted from die-cast zinc to solid brass coated in an abrasion-resistant black lacquer. The iconic red Leitz logo carries from the 1984 original and other typical character traits such as the slanted rewind crank are preserved. Additional highlights include a new battery warning indicator, light meter, and exposure meter.

“Whether historic or new, the Leica M6 concentrates on the essential photographic functions. Handmade in Germany, it is an extremely reliable companion for all those who appreciate the lasting and contemplative nature of analog photography,” Leica writes in a press release.

leica-camera.com

  

FERRAGAMO – A NEW DAWN SS23

Posted on 2022-10-10

Titled “A New Dawn,” the preview collection was inspired by two different parts of Hollywood history: Salvatore Ferragamo’s time in/impact on Hollywood and long-standing relationships with its stars plus the “ease and sensuality” of modern-day Hollywood. “I wanted to pay tribute to Salvatore’s start by bringing in the culture of Hollywood – but new Hollywood,” said Davis. “Its ease and sensuality; its sunset and sunrise.”

www.ferragamo.com

  

THE INTIMACY OF DISTANCE

Posted on 2022-10-10

The Intimacy of Distance | Explorations of the Figure/Ground is an exhibition addressing one of the quintessential relationships in representational art: the frisson and distance between the human subject and the field. Organizers Lawrence Gipe and Douglas Marshall have gathered a diverse group of seventeen artists that use photography and photo-derived processes to explore this trope, creating a conversation amongst artists that are quite divergent in vision, context and methodology.

Opposite – Judith Stenneken, Untitled #48 (Hotel), 2012

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2022

Marshall Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. #A6
Los Angeles
CA 90404

marshallgallery.art

  

MAGALI REUS – X I I

Posted on 2022-10-10

Kerbside construction waste skips are transfigured as domestic fruit bowls in Magali Reus’ photographic series ‘Landings’. Pertly animated fruit and sliced cabbage slivers graze among heaped rubble, plaster dust, exhausted paint tubs, scraps of peeled wallpaper and splintered floorboards. Not some chance apparition of a discarded lunchtime kebab, this vegetal script, between semantic meaning and ornament, spells out the months of the Gregorian calendar.

Opposite – What Grows (Flowers, Flowers), 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 16th, 2022

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
London

theapproach.co.uk

  

GUCCI HA HA HA COLLECTION

Posted on 2022-10-10

The House presents the Gucci HA HA HA campaign featuring British singer-songwriter and actor, Harry Styles. Arising from the friendship between him and Creative Director Alessandro Michele, play is at the very heart of the collection, which uses menswear as a tool of the avant-garde. Captured by Mark Borthwick, the series of images sees Harry Styles showcase the ‘dream wardrobe’ defined by the eccentric use of romantic accents, whimsical prints, vintage details, and the expressive emotionality of the individual.

www.gucci.com

  

ISH LIPMAN – THE LOOMING NIGHT

Posted on 2022-10-03

Titled after three paintings that follow his protagonist on a journey to an unknown destination, The Looming Night, is a meditation on this protagonist’s constant pursuit of the horizon line, which is something that only exists in the distance of these paintings. Up close they lose that soft longing, but in the distance they loom large. “It hinges on surrealism but it stays just enough in this world and as a result it’s more unsettling,” says Lipman. “I want to leave enough space to let people get lost in them.”

Opposite – In the Old House, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022

Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles

www.praz-delavallade.com