Hot Photo Friday – Steven Klein

Steven Klein, ‘Guinevere van Seenus in Vogue’, 2005

Hot Photo Friday – Sasha Kurmaz

Sasha Kurmaz, ‘Untitled’, n.d.

Hot Photo Friday – Felicity Why

Felicity Why, from the series ‘Feminesis’, 2012

Hot Photo Friday – Giulia Agostini

Giulia Agostini, from the series ‘Dogs’, n.d.

LOL on Instagram

Leg of Lamb has finally succumbed to the wily charms of Instagram.  Check out all of my latest happy snaps here.

Hot Photo Friday – Nicholas & Sheila Pye

Nicholas and Sheila Pye, ‘Sitting on a Unicorn’, 2004

Hot Photo Friday – Asger Carlsen

Asger Carlsen, from the series ‘Homemade’, n.d.

Moriyama

“I think that the most important thing that photography can do is to relate both the photographer and the viewer’s memories”.

Daido Moriyama, Grandfather of Japanese photography, discusses his work (above).

Dennis Hopper at Gagosian

Dennis Hopper, ‘Neil Young in Desert Shot’, 1961-67

Best-known as a director and actor, Dennis Hopper was also an accomplished artist, as evidenced by the major 2010 LA MOCA exhibition Dennis Hopper: Double Standard (the first show under Jeffrey Dietch’s directorship) that sadly opened just after Hopper’s death.   Three years on, a series of photographs by Hopper that hasn’t been seen since 1970 is about to go on display at Gagosian in New York.  The exhibition contains over 200 images from Hopper’s Lost Album; a series documenting late 1960s American counter culture and iconic figures like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Neil Young (above).  Hopper’s photographs are generally uncropped and feature only natural light, lending the images a brooding, moody quality.  He’s got quite an eye. All of the photographs were taken with a 28mm Nikon given to the artist by his first wife in 1967.  Hopper didn’t pick up a camera again until the early 1980s.

Hot Photo Friday – Polly Borland (Easter Special)

Polly Borland, ‘Bunny’, 2008