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Fotografiska Lets Four Photographers Run Wild

Fotografiska Lets Four Photographers Run Wild

When it comes to traveling these days, it almost feels like a case of “pics or it didn’t happen.” But Autograph Collection Hotels is embracing the sensation this summer with Impressions, a project with Fotografiska which immersed photographers in four international hotels and let them, and their inspirations, run wild. 

The American talent (and Guggenheim fellow) Alessandra Sanguinetti used Mesm Tokyo as her home base, then ventured onto city streets for high-contrast portraits of the charismatic subjects she encountered. Cristina De Middel made dynamic, playful work that disorients the surroundings she explored at the Alaia Belize in San Pedro. Gregory Halpern stayed closer to home, bunking at The National inside a former Oklahoma City bank; the familiarity fostered the empathy he exposes in photographs of boxing gyms and rodeos.

Oslo-based Jonas Bendiksen went to Berlin. From his perch at Hotel Luc—a new jewel in Marriott Bonvoy’s crown, all Prussian-themed with busts of Frederick the Great and a bowl of the potatoes he endowed the royal status, both made of porcelain, and blue walls boasting portraits of modern royalty—he created photographs deploying the city’s fondness for minimalism and repetition to moody, melancholy effect. 

The four photographers’ work, and a short film documenting its creation, were recently unveiled at Fotografiska New York, and will travel to Autograph Collection hotels around the world. Limited-edition prints are available on Fotografiska’s website and at select hotels, to benefit the not-for-profit Bronx Documentary Center. Guests at select properties will, upon check-in, receive complimentary Lomography 35mm cameras and rolls of film, so they can go out and make impressions of their own.

MIOPS Spark helps you get more from your iPhone camera

MIOPS Spark helps you get more from your iPhone camera

For the past few years, MIOPS has been crowdfunding a bunch of useful photography gadgets like the Mobile, Flex and Flex Bolt camera triggers. Now the Spark brings DSLR-like control to iPhone photographers, along with a lightning trigger, long exposures and other creativity tools.

“Spark brings professional-level features and versatility to iPhone photography, allowing users to unleash their creativity and capture stunning images and videos,” said company CEO, Onur Celik. “We believe Spark will empower photographers and videographers, taking their craft to new heights.”

Users start by mounting an iPhone to the accessory via MagSafe if the model has it or by attaching a MagSafe sticker to the handset if not. The phone’s camera array protrudes beyond the Spark’s frame while the chunky grip to the right offers DSLR-like controls for adjusting ISO, white balance and focus plus a shutter-release button up top.

An iPhone equipped with MagSafe can mount directly to the Spark, those without will need the supplied MagSafe sticker
An iPhone equipped with MagSafe can mount directly to the Spark, those without will need the supplied MagSafe sticker

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Long exposure modes can help with photos of the night sky, bring a sense of movement to waterfalls or river flow, or help users to paint with light. An onboard light sensor can take the guesswork out of trying to capture a lightning strike.

There’s a mode to combine the best elements of bracketed exposures for rich and detailed HDR imagery, while photo stacking can grab “intricate details that make your images truly stand out.” There’s even a feature that can digitally remove people and objects from a scene for a less cluttered image. And for a hands-free experience, the iPhone wearing the Spark can be controlled remotely using an Apple Watch.

Additional tools include a burst mode for quick-fire action shots, live filters can be applied in real time, folks can get on the level courtesy of a tiltmeter, a histogram display will help users get the best shot while overexposed areas can be highlighted to allow for adjustment before the snap is taken.

The Spark can be controlled remotely using an Apple Watch, and includes a long-exposure mode for capture a sense of movement in waterfall scenes
The Spark can be controlled remotely using an Apple Watch, and includes a long-exposure mode for capture a sense of movement in waterfall scenes

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Favorite presets can be saved for easy recall, users can choose JPG, TIFF, RAW or ProRAW image formats, and creations can be shared direct to social media through the app. The device is powered by its own battery, so won’t draw your iPhone’s juice, with MIOPS saying that users may not need to top it up for a whole year.

The Spark is described as the “ultimate tool for photography enthusiasts” and is currently the subject of a Kickstarter funding campaign. As of writing, pledges start at US$99. The usual crowdfunding cautions apply, but if all goes to plan, shipping is estimated to start in May 2024. The video below has more.

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The Symphony Lighting Collection Is Visually Orchestral

The Symphony Lighting Collection Is Visually Orchestral

What does Milan Iluminación’s new Symphony Collection look like to you – a sunhat, a flying saucer, or something else entirely? The lighting group’s name makes sense once you learn that the series is meant to resemble a small orchestra of percussion and diffused light. Designed by Jordi Pla, the rotating glass lampshade directs the light to shrink in size or grow larger to fill a space. The lampshades employ a magnetized system, creating a magnetic field that enables the screen to rotate around it via ball joint.

Made of steel, the Symphony Collection is both extruded and stamped during the manufacturing process, while shades are made using spinning aluminum. The light-diffusing shade is made of a glossy opal blown glass.

The Symphony Collection is available in four styles: upright, wall light, high desktop, and low desktop. Choose from three colors and three finishes: mink lacquer, charcoal gray, and metallic copper to suit the space.

three table lamps with saucer-shaped shade in a styled living space

white table lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a styled living space

black table lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a styled living space

round black wall sconce with a notch taken out

burnt orange table lamp with saucer-shaped shade bedside

white floor lamp with saucer-shaped shade

burnt orange floor lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a living space

white floor lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a restaurant

table lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a styled living space

two burnt orange floor lamps with saucer-shaped shade in a living space

black saucer-shaped light pendants hanging over two outdoor chairs

burnt orange floor lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a living space

five white and burnt orange saucer-shaped light pendants

black floor lamp with saucer-shaped shade in a living space

burnt orange saucer-shaped light pendant bedside

To learn more about the Symphony Collection of lighting, visit milan-iluminacion.com.

Kelly Beall is Director of Branded Content at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based writer and designer has had a deep love of art and design for as long as she can remember, from Fashion Plates to MoMA and far beyond. When not searching out the visual arts, she’s likely sharing her favorite finds with others. Kelly can also be found tracking down new music, teaching herself to play the ukulele, or on the couch with her three pets – Bebe, Rainey, and Remy. Find her @designcrush on social.

Photographer and Sandra Bullock’s Partner Bryan Randall Dies Aged 57

Photographer and Sandra Bullock’s Partner Bryan Randall Dies Aged 57
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Bryan Randall, a portrait and landscape photographer who met his famous girlfriend of eight years Sandra Bullock after he was hired to photograph her child’s birthday party, has died aged 57.

In a statement to People on Monday, Randall’s family announced that the photographer had passed away after being diagnosed with a rare neuromuscular disorder three years ago.

“It is with great sadness that we share that on 5 August, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis],” his family says.

“Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private and those of us who cared for him did our best to honor his request.”

ALS is a progressive disease for which there is no cure. It is caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control the movement of muscles that we control consciously. Most people die within two to five years of being diagnosed with ALS.

The disease is also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease after the New York baseball player who was diagnosed with the condition in 1939 at just 36 years old.

A Portrait and Landscape Photographer

Randall, from Portland, Oregon, originally worked as a fashion model for brands like Hugo Boss and Saint Laurent before discovering his passion behind the lens.

Randall went on to become a professional photographer and owned his own company, Bryan Randall Photography. He focused primarily on children’s portraits and outdoor scenes in his work.

In a 2021 episode of Red Table Talk, Bullock recalled how she met Randall in January 2015 when she hired him to photograph the birthday party of her son, Louis, whom she adopted in 2010.

The actress was in the process of adopting her second child Laila when she started dating Randall and she said the photographer was extremely supportive of her decision.

Bullock explained: “When I met him I was like… We hadn’t been together for that long, and I said, ‘Hey, remember that NDA [non disclosure agreement] you signed when you photographed my son?’”

The actress then told him that the NDA from the photography job still held up because she was welcoming her daughter Laila, who had been in foster care in Louisiana.

When Bullock broke the news to Randall, she said he “was so happy but he was so scared.” The actress went on to say that the photographer became “the example that I would want my children to have.”

Bryan also has an adult daughter named Skylar from a previous relationship.

Randall’s family asks for any donations to be made to the ALS Association and the Massachusetts General Hospital.


Image credits: Featured photo via YouTube.

Global Independent Artists And Performing Art Companies Market Is Set To Grow At A 3.0% Rate Through The Forecast Period

Global Independent Artists And Performing Art Companies Market Is Set To Grow At A 3.0% Rate Through The Forecast Period
Independent Artists And Performing Art Companies Market Report 2023

Independent Artists And Performing Art Companies Global Market Report 2023

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The growth in the independent artists and performing art companies market is due to performing arts companies. Asia pacific region is expected to hold the largest independent artists and performing art companies market share. Major players in the independent artists and performing art companies market include CJ Corp, Cineworld Group plc, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., Cinemark Holdings, Inc., PVR Limited.

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• By Type: Performing Arts, Visual Arts
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• Subsegments Covered: Theater Companies And Dinner Theaters, Dance Companies, Musical Groups And Artists, Other Performing Arts Companies
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Independent artists and performing art companies are businesses that primarily produce live performances by actors and actresses, singers and dancers, musical groups and artists, and other performing artists. An independent artist refers to a musician or music group that has not signed a record label. Performing art means live performances by actors and actresses, singers and dancers, musical groups and artists, and other performing artists.

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Keita Miyazaki Sprouts Delicate Origami from Welded Car Parts in ‘Excess of Desire’

Keita Miyazaki Sprouts Delicate Origami from Welded Car Parts in ‘Excess of Desire’

“Blue Turmoil” (2023), car parts and paper, 85 x 65 x 55 centimeters. All images © Keita Miyazaki, courtesy of Gallery Rosenfeld, shared with permission

On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history struck just over 80 miles off the coast of the island of Honshu. An ensuing tsunami produced monstrous waves up to 40 meters high that pummeled the coastline and caused numerous deaths, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents homeless and crippling the country’s infrastructure. Artist Keita Miyazaki witnessed the devastation firsthand, and as access to everyday necessities and supplies was disrupted, he began to question Western society’s reliance on industry and material goods, as well as how the contemporary world measures its progress.

In his solo exhibition Excess of Desire at Gallery Rosenfeld, Miyazaki’s sculptures appear to grow from the floor or sprout from pedestals. Metal components meet intricate origami, exploring the dualities of robustness and fragility, the decorative and the utilitarian, and heaviness and lightness. The ends of pipes blossom with colorful fans and spindles of folded paper, juxtaposed with car parts in a reference to the 20th-century automotive boom and advancing technology.

Miyazaki articulates ideas around functionality and decay by welding together fragments of mufflers and engines that no longer operate for their intended purposes. He incorporates carefully selected parts, such as specialized mufflers that were produced illegally in the 1980s and 1990s, which rose to popularity because they could increase the car’s noise level and produce a specific sound. Challenging the frivolity of excess in wealthy society, the artist reframes the components as flourishing, botanical-like forms.

The Victoria and Albert Museum recently added one of the Miyazaki’s pieces to its Japanese collection, and one of his large-scale floor works will soon be on display at the Young V&A in Bethnal Green. Excess of Desire remains on view through September 30, and you can follow the artist on Instagram for updates.

 

“White Ore” (2023), car parts and paper, 72 x 60 x 48 centimeters

Left: “Stereo Order” (2022), car parts and paper, 70 x 50 x 38 centimeters. Right: “Tree of knowledge” (2020), car parts and paper, 250 x 90 x 100 centimeters

“Converted Reality” (2021), car parts and paper, 285 x 90 x 60 centimeters

“Core in Space” (2023), brass, car parts, enamel, and resin, 35 x 25 x 25 centimeters

“Plural Blue” (2023), car parts and paper, 220 x 55 x 55 centimeters

“The Bird” (2023), brass, car parts, enamel, and resin, 45 x 25 x 25 centimeters

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Suzanne Valadon at Pompidou-Metz — the realist in an art-historical context

Suzanne Valadon at Pompidou-Metz — the realist in an art-historical context
‘Catherine nue allongée sur une peau de panthère’ (1923) © Lucien Arkas Collection

There is only one English-language biography of the French artist Suzanne Valadon — Renoir’s Dancer, a title that doubtless thrilled the marketing department of its publisher, Icon Books. Valadon was indeed a major model and muse, and sat endlessly for the already famous Renoir, but in her lifetime she also became a serious and feted artist in her own right.

Now, as a robust exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz deftly demonstrates, though she posed in a frothy white ballgown for Renoir’s “Danse à la ville”, as the hard-faced girl in Toulouse-Lautrec’s “The Hangover”, and as a sensual siren for Puvis de Chavannes, it is her vibrant paintings, as well as her drawings and etchings, that deserve our attention.

Valadon, who lived from 1865 to 1938, painted without inhibition or flattery, cleaving to a brilliantly hued realism. Her self-portraits are searing observations of womanhood — in the last of them she is a tough, bare-breasted 66-year-old. Those commissioned by society and friends, from which she made a good living in the 1920s and 1930s, are equally unforgiving. Lucie Valore, a wealthy collector, is shown as puffy and stern. By 1937, when it was painted, she had married Valadon’s son, the painter Maurice Utrillo, and was about to turn him against her.

‘Marie Coca et sa fille Gilberte’ (1913) © Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Even close family members don’t escape Valadon’s forensic gaze. In a portrait of her niece Maria Coca and daughter Gilberte, made in 1913, the sitters face in opposite directions and a pall of misery infuses the picture.

At the Pompidou, director Chiara Parisi, who also curated the show, has taken an art-historical view of the artist’s career, and interspersed the assemblage of 130 works by Valadon with a further 40 by her peers. “I wanted to put her in context,” says Parisi. Among them are a gorgeous still life by Cézanne, with whom Valadon shares a palette of saturated colours, and a sensational portrait of Valadon by Toulouse-Lautrec, who was also her lover; it was buried in a store in Wuppertal, Germany, until Parisi dug it out.

‘Autoportrait aux seins nus’ (1931) © Collection Bernardeau

Toulouse-Lautrec’s influence can be seen in works such as Valadon’s “Nude in Boots”, a quick study of a confident showgirl naked but for her stockings and boots. Lautrec also gave her the name Suzanne, although she was really called Marie-Clémentine: the new name was after the biblical parable of Susanna and the Elders, alluding to the amount of time she spent with older men.

Parisi didn’t want to hang Valadon’s appeal on her rollicking rags-to-riches-to-rags life story — such a sensational tale of its times that it reads like the plot of a Zola novel. Valadon came to Paris from the poor, rural Limousin region aged five with her unmarried mother Madeleine. They landed in Montmartre where Suzanne ran riot, played truant and really did join the circus.

‘Le lancement de filet’ (1914) © Centre Pompidou

By the age of 15, she had tumbled disastrously off her trapeze and, after recovering, started making a living as an artist’s model, most notably for Puvis de Chavannes. She had her son Maurice at 18 (fellow artist Miquel Utrillo claimed paternity, though society preferred Chavannes), who went on to be blighted by alcohol and mental illness but became a very successful artist.

By 19, she had started making her own drawings, then Edgar Degas taught her etching. An affair with the overly obsessive Erik Satie (who gets a tiny corner here) was followed by marriage to a stockbroker. But eventually André Utter, a 23-year-old friend of Maurice, swept her away (she was 44), managed her career and spent her money. As did Valadon herself, with a penchant for furs, chauffeur-driven cars and lavish dinners.

‘L’avenir dévoilé ou La tireuse de cartes’ (1912) © Genève, Association des Amis du Petit Palais

Utter also made appalling pornographic paintings, of which there is one on show here, doubtless a self-portrait of a particularly blunt doggy-style encounter, rather incorrectly named “Scène érotique”. Though their relationship faltered, they are buried together in the Saint-Ouen cemetery outside Paris.

“She did want a different kind of life than the one she was born to,” concedes Parisi, who chose the title A World of Her Own for the exhibition. “She was really daring for a woman of her time, a real adventuress.”

Elaborating the story through the art itself, Parisi opens the show with Valadon’s first major painting, made in 1909. A remarkable portrayal of herself and Utter as Adam and Eve, it is most likely the first male nude painted by a western woman. (A fancy garland of fig leaves had to be added when it was shown in the Salon des Indépendants 11 years later.) Next to it is “The Fortune Teller”, an unnerving symbolist scene, in which a lounging Olympia is being read her cards. The future could be bleak.

‘Été, dit aussi Adam et Ève’ (1909) © Centre Pompidou

The strong line that Valadon developed in her early days of drawing, then engraving, often follows through to her paintings: everything from figures to flowers are at times circumscribed with a heavy black line. In “The Blue Room”, from 1923, one of her very best works, the line traces the body of a large woman lying on a couch, a truculent expression in her eyes, a cigarette in her lips. In her pink camisole and stripy pyjama pants, she is categorically modern; this is a face that will never be troubled by anything as submissive as a simper.

That Valadon needs reintroduction as an artist is not just a matter of misogyny, or class, though both have certainly played their part in the obscurity that has enveloped her reputation since her death. She was a realist painter, a figurative painter, and though touched by Fauvism, impression, symbolism and even classicism, she deliberately chose not subscribe to any school. (Berthe Morisot, upper class and a rare female member of the Impressionists, has been far more easily absorbed into the story of art.) Meanwhile, tastes were changing as she neared her death. From early in the 20th century, Cubists, Constructivists and Surrealists were changing the artistic landscape and Valadon’s style was going out of fashion. 

‘La Chambre bleue’ (1923) © Centre Pompidou

Now, though, it seems that Valadon’s skill and confidence as an artist have prevailed. She has a sense of volume that shows a unique understanding of the body in space that she may have learnt first as a sitter, then as a painter: less an autodidact than someone whose education was entirely experiential. Her pictures have a sculptural force and an unflinching presence that has not gone away.

In 1930, the French art critic René Barotte said: “I do not know what will last of the visual art of our era, but Valadon’s work, elaborated in solitude, will remain outside time, like something at once sensitive, pure and strong.” Nearly 100 years later, this exhibition proves him right.

At Centre Pompidou-Metz until September 11, then Musée d’arts de Nantes, October 27-February 11 2024. centrepompidou-metz.fr

Music, photography, rodeo events and more

Music, photography, rodeo events and more
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It might be easy to forget amid all the rodeo-centered events going on, but there are other things happening in the Rim Country and White Mountains areas as well. Saddle up and get ready to ride into a full week!

Live music

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