A period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie

The photo-book everyone is talking about, reviewed by Alec Soth.

it’s about life on the road and the pursuit of the utopia.

littlebrownmushroom:

After three days of listening to call-waiting music, we’ve finally fixed our website. Here’s this week’s melting popsicle: A period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie.

The legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado spent much of the past nine years trekking to the last wild places on earth to take the pictures collected in his new photography book, Genesis.

1st day of spring in London

it was about time.

Just discover this great dutch artist, worth cheking out his sitll life work, too.

The film everyones talking about!

Spring Brakers, Harmoni Korine

film-dot-com:

GIRLS GONE WILD: “SPRING BREAKERS” & THE ARTHOUSE POP STAR

“Though musicians have been attempting the potentially suicidal crossover into standalone Hollywood stardom since Al Jolson helped introduce the filmgoing public to synchronized sound in 1927, mainstream pop stars have never been welcomed into the acting world with open arms. Perhaps the stigma endures because, for every Kris Kristofferson or Doris Day successfully redefining their own iconography, there are legions of less reputable performers merely looking to expand their demographic base or cash-in on the popularity of their personal brand (“Glitter” comes to mind). Part of the problem with such vanity products is how deferential they tend to be to the very presence of the musicians themselves, functioning more like self-effacing vehicles for a star’s idealized image than as self-contained works appreciable on their own terms; these films are so intimately bound to veritably mythologized preconceptions that it’s hard for them to realize fictions of their own.

One would be hard-pressed to find more predictably market-friendly pop stars in 2013 than Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, two of Disney’s most meticulously micro-managed teen sensations whose cultivated image stands proud among their most lucratively branded properties. Gomez and Hudgens, of course, aren’t career musicians in the traditional sense—the two made their names in acting before graduating to singing proper—but their highly predetermined career within House Disney clearly dictate cross-platform success of this kind from the start. Their “real” breakout as “legitimate” actors (note the decidedly hectoring quotation marks) occurs this very month, as the arrival of “Spring Breakers” heralds a new chapter in their careers—one considerably more adult in graphic content, though they themselves remain no less (exaggeratedly) nubile.”

JOIN CHANTAL GOYA, DEBBIE HARRY, AND JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE WHEN THE ARTICLE CONTINUES ON FILM.COM

Master, Chuck Close is in London for the time being. Should drop by an visit him in #WhiteCube gallery down in Bermondsey

Big Self Portrait

by Chuck Close

Listen all you new yorkers!

ED RUCHA’S BOOK COLLECTION AT GAGOSIAN 

jesuisperdu:

“In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist’s books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these “small books” were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha’s fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha’s have appeared throughout the world.

VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS, Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha’s books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes…

Upcoming, Ed Ruscha, the exhibition, March 5 – April 27, at Gagosian Gallery and book, New York.”

via manystuff

UNtitled By Laura Pannack

London based photojournalist photographer, recently gave me a workshop on street portrait. Also the author of British Young Naturists.

today, te sun is out, and its 15 degrees.

Jessica Chastain by Juergen Teller

Part of the series “33 actors from 2012 close and unscripted”

Opening tomorrow at ICA in London 

juergenteller:

Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty”

This year’s 33 brightest stars, up close and unscripted.

W Magazine