Adidas Skateboarding presents Mark Gonzales’ first professional model with the brand in the Gonz Pro. The release is composed of two colorways: brown/baby blue and all-over white/red/blue. The silhouette features a one-piece seamless upper that’s paired with a white vulcanized outsole. The bottom sole is gum and sees further detailing with signature Gonz design.
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The Levi’s Skateboarding collection is a reimagined assortment of timeless basics that were designed and constructed to match the demands of today’s skateboarding needs. Construction detailing includes adding Cordura to the denim that has exceptional abrasion resistance and Lycra T400 for added stretch and increased abrasion resistance.
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Common Ground: New American Street Photography and will feature the work of 5 contemporary American photographers that are changing the nature of street photography and giving us yet another way to view the world.
Common Ground is curated by Stephen McLaren, co-author of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson, 2010); The exhibition will feature photography by highly-accomplished American street photographers Jack Simon, Bryan Formahls, Chuck Patch, Blake Andrews and Richard Bram. Each of these photographers is currently working at a highly-creative level in cities as diverse as San Francisco, New York, Eugene, Los Angeles and New Orleans. The impressive bodies of work they are accumulating shows that street photography, as an energetic and highly- adaptable, photographic genre, remains an integral force in American photographic culture.
Street Photography’s “common ground” is the century-old tradition of using one’s natural inquisitiveness and camera skills to show us new facets of life and reveal poetry within the world around us. Each of the featured photographers eschew models, props and exotic locations and instead rely on their speed of thought and their ability to arrange fragments of time and space into beguiling images. The images featured in the exhibition demonstrate a wide range of styles and camera formats, but it is each photographer’s highly-individual way of seeing the world and recording it which exemplifies how creative street photography can be when pursued by dedicated photographers.
Exhibition runs through till July 27th, 2013
drkrm
933 Chung King Road
Los Angeles
CA
90012
Since the birth of photography in 1839, artists have used the medium to explore subjects close to home, the quotidian, intimate, and overlooked aspects of everyday existence. This exhibition examines the photographs and videos made by a wide range of artists during the last four decades. Featuring forty works from the Museum’s collection, it includes photographs by John Baldessari, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Fischli & Weiss, Jan Groover, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Elizabeth McAlpine, Gabriel Orozco, David Salle, Robert Smithson, Stephen Shore, and William Wegman among others, as well as video by artists such as Martha Rosler, Ilene Segalove, and Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky.
As the counterculture swelled in the late 1960s, daily life as it had been lived in Western Europe and America since the cookie-cutter 1950s came into question. Everything from feminism to psychedelic drugs to space exploration suggested a nearly infinite array of alternative ways to perceive reality; and artists and thinkers in the sixties and seventies proposed a “revolution of everyday life” that would cast off the shackles of deadened perception.
In the 1980s, artists’ renewed interest in conventions of narrative and genre led to often highly staged or produced images that hint at how even our deepest feelings are mediated by the images that surround us. In the wake of the economic crash of the late 1980s, photographers increasingly focused on what was swept under the carpet—the taboo and the repressed—often in slightly sinister works tinged with dread. At the same moment, Gabriel Orozco traveled the globe using the humblest of cast-off materials, such as an empty shoebox in the snow, to make fragile, economical sculptures that required photography to communicate their existence.
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
New York
10028-0198
In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship this relationship is inextricable; places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what’s happening to her personally. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.
she dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.
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Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horseman, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Vargas of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley.
Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson
In theaters July 3rd, 2013
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