Tuesday, 3 December 2013

#billhenson the seventies work


#billhenson


#billhenson 1989. it's sooo good.


Amy Arbus / On The Street 1980-1990


Way before the Scott Schuman et al started taking street style shots, Amy Arbus (Daughter of Diane) ran a weekly column in the Village Voice called 'On The Street'. Similar to the straight-ups of i-D she pictured anybody and everyone who appeared interesting. This book compiles highlights of a decade of her work, and features a young Madonna amongst others. Of course, as it was shot during the Autumn of New York's golden era as far as style is concerned all the images are staggeringly EXCELLENT. It really is quite a surprise this book hasn't received the attention it deserves and is very highly recommended.

David Sylvian / Perspectives: Polaroids 82-84


Absoloutely brilliant book by former Japan frontman David Sylvian. Beautiful polaroid collages of band members, tours, landscapes and cities. Fans of Hockney's polaroids will be at home here. Gentlemen take polaroids indeed...

Gillian Wearing / Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say 1992 - 1993


Gillian Wearing first attracted public acclaim when she exhibited this series of photographs at City Racing, a small artist-run gallery in London in 1993. She had been using video and photography since the early 1990s, but this was her first significant collaboration with members of the public. Standing in a busy area of South London (Walworth road I think), Wearing stopped passers-by and asked them to write down what was on their mind. With their permission, she then photographed them holding their statement. As indicated by the title of the work, Wearing has written that this collaboration 'interrupts the logic of photo-documentary and snapshot photography by the subjects' clear collusion and engineering of their own representation.' These photographs were shown again in 1997 when she won the Turner Prize. A brilliant and important work.

Dennis Stock / James Dean Revisited


84 pages of B&W photographs of James Dean, all taken by Magnum photographer Dennis Stock on a commission for Life Magazine. Shows a different side to the popular public image of the Dean. Excellent.