Los Angeles is a mess. Sprawl, smog, clogged arterial freeways and just general congestion are symptoms that have long defined the city’s ill-repute to any number of people coming from the East, unused to such a colossal example of “urban expressionism”. Yet take one step backwards and the city’s preeminence begins to come together – from the global influence of Hollywood to the architecture articulated by Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and seen in the Eames and Gamble Houses. The city has long been a cauldron of experimentation, and still remains as one perhaps as a lasting characteristic of L.A.’s spontaneous growth.

Over the past few years, photojournalist Ethan Pines has documented the constitutive building blocks of Los Angeles and its surrounding cities. From aerial landscapes of the city’s farthest reaches, to revealing portraits of single-family homes, Pines has created a compelling dialogue on the unique forms of Los Angeles and their peculiarity. Tomorrow, February 2, NEW THEME Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Pines, which highlights the eccentricity of L.A.’s distinct urban forms, as well as proposing a future sustainable architecture for the city based on NEW THEME’s design of the Hollywood Hills residence of photographer Jill Greenberg.

The opening reception takes place from 7PM-10PM at NEW THEME Gallery. Click here for more information on the exhibition and to RSVP.

Forget LOLCats, here are the best animal pictures on the net, and that’s official. Recently announced as winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012, this is a mere glimpse of the awe-inspiring images which can now be seen in full at the Natural History Museum in London. Taking the majority of the spoils this year was the penguin and his new best friend, photographer Paul Nicklen.

The esteemed voice of Fabrice Paineau, editor of Double Magazine, described the photography of Camille Vivier as “light as feathers, round as breasts, these images are voluptuous, straightforward, they swallow everything.” The work of Camille Vivier, which has already been showcased by the likes of Numéro, Grey, Another Magazine and Dazed and Confused, provocatively obsesses over the body, both it’s modern and ancient connotations.  Head down to 12Mail in Paris before November 16th to catch a collection of her best works; a collection explicitly and outwardly frozen in beauty, that reveals far, far more than its mere visual exterior initially suggests.
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The esteemed voice of Fabrice Paineau, editor of Double Magazine, described the photography of Camille Vivier as “light as feathers, round as breasts, these images are voluptuous, straightforward, they swallow everything.” The work of Camille Vivier, which has already been showcased by the likes of Numéro, Grey, Another Magazine and Dazed and Confused, provocatively obsesses over the body, both it’s modern and ancient connotations. 

Head down to 12Mail in Paris before November 16th to catch a collection of her best works; a collection explicitly and outwardly frozen in beauty, that reveals far, far more than its mere visual exterior initially suggests.

This weekend, Vienna retail darlings WE BANDITS are hosting a fashion, art and music fest in their Brick 5 (Fünfhausgasse 5) venue. Young and upcoming fashion labels from around the globe will be showing off their designs for affordable prices. Elsewhere there’s an exhibition from the two photography artists: Klaus Pichler and Clemens Fantur. On June 23,  the band P R A Q ! will be performing live, while young designers of the Linz University of Art, in collaboration with Fashion School Hetzendorf, will showcase and sell their work. All these festivities make for hungry work, so make sure you chow down on the day long BRUNCH ‘N LUNCH, featuring some lethal cupcakes and cocktails in the sun on the 200m2 roof terrace. So there’s your Viennese weekend, viel spass! WE BANDITS Festival | June 21-24, Vienna
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This weekend, Vienna retail darlings WE BANDITS are hosting a fashion, art and music fest in their Brick 5 (Fünfhausgasse 5) venue. Young and upcoming fashion labels from around the globe will be showing off their designs for affordable prices. Elsewhere there’s an exhibition from the two photography artists: Klaus Pichler and Clemens Fantur.

On June 23,  the band P R A Q ! will be performing live, while young designers of the Linz University of Art, in collaboration with Fashion School Hetzendorf, will showcase and sell their work.

All these festivities make for hungry work, so make sure you chow down on the day long BRUNCH ‘N LUNCH, featuring some lethal cupcakes and cocktails in the sun on the 200m2 roof terrace.

So there’s your Viennese weekend, viel spass!

WE BANDITS Festival | June 21-24, Vienna

The New York subway in the 1980s was - literally - a grimy underworld, but photographer, Bruce Davidson, also saw beauty. His new exhibition, simply entitled Subway, opens at Berlin’s C/O Gallery on 16th March, featuring original photographs on display in the city for the first time since the book of the same name was published 25 years ago.  

In a new publication for Pogo Books titled ‘Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep’, Brooklyn-based photographer Todd Fisher draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings, capturing the mystical momentum rather than any narrative. The documentary character of the photos is undeniable, yet there is a clear distinction from photojournalism, because Fisher’s photographs incorporate artistic composition. Where the street has a clear narrative, his personal view is more abstract and even opaque at times. Context is deliberately absent or left vague, allowing the viewer to create their own reality.

Source: pogobooks.de

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