‘Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture’, an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, explores how a handful of Chelsea boutiques sparked a fashion revolution in the mid-1960s. Here we review ‘Beautiful People Photographs 1966 to 1973’, the dedicated accompanying photography show in the museum’s upstairs gallery space.
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Cecil Beaton – Thirty From The 30s
A timely publication, given that Sir Cecil Beaton was born on this day, January 14 (1904), which also signals your last chance to go and see a visionary capsule collection of vintage portraits, focused entirely on the 1930s, by one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. Continue reading
On The Radar: Lisa Traxler’s BUILD
Successful creative collaborations are always a thrill. With BUILD three visionaries, an architect and an artist whose recent works are inextricably linked worked with an image maker Continue reading
Ai Weiwei at The RA
I am still deeply immersed in the experience that was Ai Weiwei’s monumental show at The Royal Academy. Continue reading
György Kepes at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s György Kepes exhibition only covers a small portion of this maverick artist and deep thinker’s output. The works selected were created in the handful of years following his emigration to the US in 1937, where he headed the Colour and Light department of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, established by fellow Hungarian and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy. Continue reading
Picture Perfect: Photographing Floral Art
My recent involvement in a number of photo shoots with the talented Brazilian floral artist Zita Elze leads me to reflect on the synergistic partnership that can evolve between photographer and artist, the end result so clearly elevating what might have been a great picture to one that is sublime. Continue reading
György Kepes: Shining Light at the Birth of Media Art
The Armadillo Central team was delighted to be invited to the opening of The Kepes Institute, Museum and Cultural Centre, in the historic and picturesque town of Eger in Hungary, a couple of hours from Budapest. Continue reading