Film by Nick Knight, soundtrack by Daphne Guinness.

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When Nick Knight was approached to create installations to grace the windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store during February and March 2012, the first model that leapt to mind was Daphne Guinness - a living embodiment of Le Printemps' Spring/Summer theme of 'Visions Couture', captured in sculpture, interactives and a selection of fashion films set against soundtracks of opera and spoken-word poetry recorded in Guinness' own voice.

The resulting fashion films, interactives and three-dimensional sculptures - a set of each capturing the Divine Daphne in creations by contemporary fashion's finest including Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe and Paco Rabanne - form the centrepiece of the fashion windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store in Spring 2012. Guinness herself recorded the musical accompaniments for each of Knight's unique filmic explorations of Spring 2012 fashion, with Guinness' voice sitting as entirely one-off soundtracks for these exceptional video pieces.
A live shoot broadcast over 21-22 December 2011 allowed viewers to witness every step of the creative process, and the vitrines imagery is showcased here. A camera situated in the window of Le Printemps Paris broadcasts the public at large interacting with the window pieces throughout February and March 2012.
Fuente: www.showstudio.com

HELMUT NEWTON POLAROIDS

Helmut Newton Polaroids OPENING 9 JUNE 2011 AT 8 PM

Polaroid technology revolutionized photography. In nearly all photographic areas – from landscape and genre, portrait and self-portrait, fashion and nudes – this unique imaging process has found enthusiastic devotees all over the world. Helmut Newton used the technology intensively starting in the 1970s, especially for his fashion photo shoots. As he once described in an interview, this satisfied his impatient urge to want to know immediately how a certain situation would look as a photograph. In this context, the Polaroid acted as an idea sketch in addition to testing the actual lighting situation and image composition. Newton’s additional notes, written on the edges of the Polaroids, are fascinating as well as revealing with regard to the model, client or location and date.The comments, the haziness of the images and the signs of use are naturally also to be found on the enlargements of the Polaroids included in the exhibition; they testify to a pragmatic approach to the original work materials, which have now possess an own inherent value. For the first time ever, over 300 works based on the original Polaroids offer a comprehensive overview of this aspect of Newton’s oeuvre.The exhibition is thus a look into the sketchbook of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.

FURTHER INFORMATION Helmut Newton Foundation Jebensstrasse 2 / 10623 Berlin www.helmutnewton.com phone +49 30 3186 4825 OPENING HOURS tuesday - sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. thursday 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. ENTRANCE FEE 8 € / 4 € concessions GUIDED TOURS sunday 4 p.m. and thursday 6 p.m. phone +49 30 266 42 4242 / fax +49 30 266 42 2290 special guided tours on demand To be removed from this mailing list, please click here to unsubcribe.

MOMA NYC NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010

The New York art space kicks off its annual exhibition of upcoming creative talent

MoMA’s annual exhibition of emerging art photographers has showcased the talents of such dignities as Philip Lorca diCorcia, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra and Sara VanDerBeek. The 2010 exhibition brings together photographers Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, four artists whose work branches across art, fashion, photography and film. Dazed spoke to curator Roxana Marcoci about this year's selection.

KATE MOSS BY MARIO TESTINO

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16 de julio de 2010

La selección personal de Mario Testino de sus fotografías de Kate Moss La Kate oculta: las fotos más íntimas del mayor icono actual de la moda internacional por el fotógrafo de moda favorito del mundo. Este libro cataloga el periplo de una de las colaboraciones más creativas de la moda, desde el backstage y los desfiles de los días iniciales hasta vislumbres entre bastidores de las rompedoras producciones editoriales que continúan realizando para las revistas más respetadas del mundo. Muchas fotografías han sido escogidas del archivo privado de Testino y son publicadas aquí por primera vez. Más información Limitado a 1.500 ejemplares, cada uno numerado y firmado por Mario Testino. Kate Moss by Mario TestinoTapa dura en caja de polimetilmetacrilato, 33 x 45,5 cm, 230 páginas € 350

PHOTO: HELMUT NEWTON JUNE 2010

Helmut Newton Foundation information, June 2010

To contact the Helmut Newton Foundation, email info@helmut-newton-foundation.org

Alice Springs

Public Opening: Friday 11th June, 2010, 7.30 p.m

Exhibition from 12th June, 2010

Starting in 1970, June Newton created own photographic works under the pseudonym Alice Springs. These have been exhibited regularly at the Helmut Newton Foundation since 2005, namely in "June's Room." The current retrospective in Berlin provides for the first time a comprehensive look at the four decades that span her work, presenting photographs from advertising and fashion as well as nudes and portraits.




Her own photographic oeuvre began with a bout of influenza suffered by Helmut Newton in Paris, 1970. June Newton had her husband show her how to handle the camera and light meter and in his place photographed an advertisement for the French cigarette brand Gitanes. The portrait of the smoking model would be the jumpstart of a new career. In the early 1970s, Alice Springs shot several campaigns for the French hair stylist Jean Louis David; the photographs appeared under her byline as full-page ads in renowned fashion magazines. 1974 later saw the first Alice Springs cover image adorning French Elle.
By this time she had also received innumerable commissions for portraits, some of which have become iconic. The roster of artists, actors and musicians depicted by Alice Springs over the last 40 years reads like a "who's who" of the international cultural scene on both sides of the Atlantic. Many portraits were magazine assignments from Paris to Los Angeles; others resulted from private initiative.
Alice Springs does more than document the appearance of celebrities and anonymous contemporaries; she captures their charisma, their aura. Her eye for people is mostly concentrated on people's faces. Occasionally she narrowly frames her subjects in a half- or three-quarters' length portrait, where the hands receive special attention as well. It might be that her deep knowledge of acting helps, how to simultaneously look at and beyond the human façade. This is particularly evident in her double portraits, in which the protagonists' interaction is perfectly staged.
There is a certain sense of familiarity in her images; actually they oscillate between distance and intimacy. In her subtle portraits we encounter the haughty stance alongside natural self-confidence as well as the shy glance. Dramatic poses are seldom, and the process occurs without grand gestures on the part of the photographer. Her images are visual commentaries that interpret the photographed.

Further information

Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstrasse 2 / 10623 Berlin
www.helmutnewton.com
phone +49 30 3186 4825

opening hours

tuesday - sunday 10 a.m - 6 p.m.
thursday 10 a.m. - 10 p.m

entrance fee

8 € / 4 € concessions
thursday from 6 p.m.- 10 p.m. free of charge

guided tours

sunday 4 p.m. and thursday 6 p.m.
phone +49 30 266 3666 / fax +49 30 266 3670
special guided tours on demand