Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Roxanne Lowit at the Maramotti Museum

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Roxanne Lowit is proud to announce that she is a part of the exhibit 'The Pattern Room' opening in Reggio Emillia at the Maramotti Museum.

Pattern Room
Photographs by Roxanne Lowit and Giuseppe Varchetta
and a text written by Marco Belpoliti

April 30 – May 25

Wednesday 30 April 2008 at 7.00 p. m., the photographic exhibition
Pattern Room. Photographs by Roxanne Lowit and Giuseppe Varchetta, and
a text written by Marco Belpoliti, will open at the Collezione
Maramotti.
The title of the exhibition is openly, deliberately evocative.
It is also reminiscent of the old function of the room in which the
exhibition has been prepared: the design and creation of prototypes and
models, when the building was Max Mara production site.

The exhibition is connected to the Fotografia europea (European
photography) event, organised by the city council; this year, in its
third edition, it is presenting the theme of the body and its
multi-sensoriality.
The images by Roxanne Lowit and Giuseppe Varchetta offer two different
viewpoints that document and interpret the intriguing relationship
among the body of works, artists and visitors within the exhibition
space, in shots taken during the opening of the collection. The
exhibition aims to highlight this complex system of relationships of
forces and energy that is heightened in these mutual reflections.
A critical text by Marco Belpoliti accompanies and comments the work of
the two photographers, offering a reflection on the author-work-visitor
triangle and the role of the photographer.

Roxanne Lowit’s shots centre on bodies, transforming the artist into an
icon facing his own work, or “stealing” unusual confidences between
artist and the artwork in a play of free and elegant narration. The
photographer declares: “The nine photographs portray not only artists,
their works and Muses, but also people and visitors interacting with
works on display, as they are caught in the flash of a moment – the
interaction between the camera and the subjects, the artist and the
inspiration, between me and you. I have fully come back to “patterns”
(“models”, “fantasies”, “drawings”), as I had started my career as
fabric designer. I was happily led astray by a camera, which today is
bringing me back to the “modelleria”, the place where one time models
were cut and creativity still flows freely”.

The rigorously black and white images by Giuseppe Varchetta show
rarefied spaces yet laden with meaning, and focus on the subtle
energies running between bodies affecting each other: the bodies of the
visitors and those of the artworks, offering us unprecedented
identities of the works themselves, as they are renewed each time by
the different perceptions of the onlooker.

During the week-long event, from April 30 to May 4, 2008, the
exhibition is free; from May 6 to May 25, 2008 it will be open to
visitors of the permanent collection.

Opening hours:

April 30, 2008: 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
From May 1 to May 4, 2008: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
From May 6 to May 25, 2008: Thursday and Friday 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Collezione Maramotti:
tel. +39 0522 382484
info@collezionemaramotti.org
www.collezionemaramotti.org

New Images from Pierre Gonnord

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Pierre Gonnord and his most recent work.

Later,

Diane

Vanishing NYC

Diane,

Last May you were the first to give my Empire Roller Rink project a shout-out on ASVOF. Since then, it's appeared in publications across the globe. You speak, people listen! Now the project's come home to roost. A half dozen images will be featured in "Vanishing NYC" at the Rabbithole Gallery in Brooklyn's DUMBO. I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Shaded viewers everywhere to join us at the opening on March 8th (5-9pm).

Rabbithole Gallery
33 Washington St
DUMBO Brooklyn

peace,
franko

Maripolarama Perverse City - 1 March 5-8pm

Taoist Diane in Japan

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was going through my mail today to find the dates when You Wear it Well 2 joins Dysfashional 2 at MUDAC Museum in Lausanne and I came across these images that Luca Marchetti, had sent to me last January. I don't know how I missed them...

Dysfashional takes place from the 11th March until June 2008. If you have never visited the MUDAC, this could be a good moment for you to discover both the exhibition and the museum.

Later,

Diane

Tribalising fashion: The art of Exactitudes at Selfridges

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Tribalising fashion:
The art of Exactitudes at Selfridges
A collaboration with Photographers’ Gallery

26 February – 20 April (The Retrospective)
4 April – 20 April (The London series opens)

Ultralounge, Lower Ground Floor, Selfridges Oxford Street - London

Selfridges is delighted to open a new season of artistic and cultural events in its Oxford Street store’s concept space the Ultralounge with Exactitudes at Selfridges, a collaboration with the Photographers’ Gallery.

Exactitudes at Selfridges is a photographic project comparing and contrasting country specific cultural and fashion tribes and, for the first time, showing London’s own tribes as identified by the Dutch artistic collaborative team made of Ellie Uyttenbroek and Ari Versluis. Whilst the Ultralounge stages a retrospective of their searching work from 1994, Ellie and Ari will create the London series live, picking relevant candidates from the street, and shooting them in the Ultralounge itself. The London series will be unveiled from 4 April.

The two Dutch artists were brought together by a shared passion for street fashion, dresscodes and collecting. Ellie and Ari have been collaborating since 1994 on their now on-going project called Exactitudes – a contraction of ‘exact’ and ‘attitude’, in an attempt to build as exhaustive as possible a photographic inventory of the meaningful styles endorsed by various groups of people in key cities in The Netherlands. The idea was to present a different, fresh and objective reflection on Dutch contemporary society focusing on the language of fashion as a mouthpiece for the multiple tribes identified by the project.

Soon it became obvious that adding an international perspective to the project would render it even more compelling both as a way to create an inventory of individual country-representative cities’ specific styles and as a way to compare and contrast tribal similarities and idiosyncrasies across the world. Hence Exactitudes visited Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, New York and Bordeaux among others with the aim to eventually collate what the artists call the ‘holy bible of contemporary tribal fashion’.

London is Exactitudes’ new focus and their most challenging and exciting foreign project to date.

“We are so excited to be working on the London project. I think that the UK and London in particular can be seen as the inventor of youth style in a tribal way, more than any other world city. There is something very distinctive and original in the way Londoners approach fashion that should translate with clarity in our new work.” says Ari Versluis.

Exactitudes’ presentation of the tribes they isolate in their style analysis is akin to butterfly collecting and, to some extent, borrows elements of anthropological science in the way Ellie and Ari conduct their inventory. Once the leading tribes have been identified and their representatives have agreed to take part, they are always shot under the same lighting, frame, and photographic construction to allow the subject matter – fashion - to give out its message unbridled. Such standardisation brings about clarity in the tribes’ messages, especially when comparing fashion styles – from swimwear to hoodies, across the world. Ultimately, however, beyond fashion it’s at the people that Exactitudes is casting its anthropological eye asking: “Who are we?”.

Exactitudes at Selfridges runs from Tuesday 26 February to Sunday 20 April 2008.

While Exactitudes creates their first inventory of the London tribes, highlights of all their past series will be exhibited in Selfridges’ Ultralounge, the arts and events dedicated space of the London’s store and situated in its lower ground floor.

The London series of Exactitudes will open to the public from Friday 4 April.

Exactitudes at Selfridges is curated by Raphaelle Stopin and Michel Mallard, realised by the Selfridges Creative Team and programmed by Nine AM and The Photographers’ Gallery.

Later,

Diane

DP in Mr. Pearl's monkey coat - photo by Michael James O'Brien

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yesterday I came back from my super speed trip to NYC that lasted about 48 hours. Just before I left Paris I received the latest issues of the ZOO Cinema Issue newspaper, the magazine will be out for Valentine's day.... I met Michael James O'Brien for lunch at Toraya so that I could give him the ZOO International Cinema Issue '08 because I love it and was sure that he would too.

photo by Michael James O'Brien
When we left Toraya I asked Michael to take an image of me in Mr. Pearl's monkey coat before I had to give it back. I had visited Mr. Pearl the day before I went to Stockholm and he was worried that I might be too cold and so he lent me his voodoo monkey coat. I promised Robb Young that I would send him a good image of me in the coat. I know neither Mr. Pearl nor I, nor Robb Young for that matter, eat meat so it might be a bit politically incorrect to wear fur but honestly, I felt fine. I am also carrying my fave Jas M B bag.

Later,

Diane

P.S. Maarten, I am a rooster, not a rat.

MIGUEL VILLALOBOS A "SILENCI?"

Thank you Silecitv for posting it

Who doesn't love Miguel Villalobos?

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Later,

Diane

For those of you that read Catalan:

Miguel Villalobos, un fotògraf que fa les instantànies més famoses de les nits de Nova York
Com aquell qui col•lecciona autògrafs, el fotògraf veneçolà Miguel Villalobos col•lecciona fotos fetes per ell. És més fan que professional, però ja fa deu anys que va per festivals i festes fotografiant qualsevol famós amb qui topi. Madonna, Asia Argento, Gael Garcia Bernal o Courtney Love s'han posat davant de la càmera compacta de Villalobos en alguna de les moltes festes que l'actor ha retratat. Sense focus i amb un estil descurat, aquest dibuixant, il•lustrador i fotògraf s'ha convertit en un dels nous valors més sòlids de la fotografia de moda i de tendències, i el seu nom ja destaca amb força en les principals capçaleres del sector. Aquest reportatge de "Silenci?" entrevista Villalobos i visita el seu estudi a Nova York. [Emès el 4/5/2006].

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

January 11 - February 8, 2008.
Opening Reception =?Friday, January 11, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm.

?A picture never merely represents x, but rather represents x as a man or represents x to be a mountain, or represents the fact that x is a melon. ?What could be meant by copying a fact would be hard to grasp even if there were any such things as facts...?
[from Nelson Goodman?s Languages of Art (2nd Edition; Indianapolis and Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 1984), p 9]

http://www.the-flog.com

Left image, Flavia Da Rin, self portrait as? a happy prerafaelite girl, 2007, C-print, 11x14 inches, ed. 1.
Right image, Tim Sullivan, me now as me 26 years earlier, 2007, C-print, 11x14 inches, ed. 1.

fette's gallery is delighted to present (Untitled) u = ____ [ a photographic group show ] featuring the work of 25 artists working internationally.
The idea for this show was to ask each artist to take a self-portrait representing someone else. Each photograph had to be the same size, 11x14 inches and presented in a limited edition of 1 (+3 AP).

This show will present 25 original photographs by?Michele Abeles (us), Melanie Bonajo (nl), Victor Boullet (ch), Fran篩s Coquerel (fr), Clayton Cubitt (us), Flavia Da Rin (ar),?Arnaud Delrue (fr), Amy Elkins (us), Roya Falahi (us), Thobias F䬤t (se), Carlee Fernandez (us), Kristian Haggblom (au),?Anouk Kruithof (nl), Eva Lauterlein (ch), Zoren Gold & Minori (jp), Rapha묠Neal (fr), Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (ch),?Paul Mpagi Sepuya (us), Suellen Parker (us), Tim Sullivan (us), Erika Svensson (se),?and Deanna Templeton (us).

A catalogue will be published for the occasion with an?introductory essay by Dr. Gomez from the League of Imaginary Scientists.

fette's?gallery
4255 baldwin ave.
culver city, ca 90232

g.?310 559 7733
c.?310 494 1588
contact@fette-gallery.com
http://www.fette-gallery.com

wed. to sat. | 11am to 5 pm

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Anouk Kruithof Happy New Year

BAM

2008

happy new year!

with lots of haerts in your coffee!

Kind regards Anouk Kruithof

www.anoukkruithof.nl

DP & Roxanne Lowit by Wiglius de Bie

I was looking for a photo of Roxanne Lowit and came across this one taken by Wiglius de Bie a few years ago.

Later,

Diane

Miguel Villalobos photos from 2003 Cannes Film Festival

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I am working on a piece for the next edition of ZOO. It's on film festivals and Miguel Villalobos sent me a bit of inspiration from one of his trips to Cannes.

Later,

Diane

zoltan Gerliczki

http://www.zoltangallery.com/

We are now going through the painful process of eliminating beautiful pages from the zero issue of IQONS magazine. We have over 30 pages to cut....very sad...

Later,

Diane

Holiday Greetings from Zoltan and Michael James O'Brien

Ruben and Isabelle Toledo by Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

photo by Miguel Villalobos

No words necessary.

What do you do faced with 30 contact sheets of beautiful and powerful images...how do you choose only one for the cover?

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IQONS magazine has the pleasure of being forced to make that decision. Imagine if it were the reverse.

Later,

Diane

Flower series by Michael James O Brien

Dear Shaded Viewers,

All photos by Michael James O'Brien

Later,

Diane

JACKIE NICKERSON by filep motwary

Dear Shaded Viewers,

An excerpt from Filep Motwary for IQONS Magazine. IQONIANS that were selected by the IQON of the month were asked to interview the person of their choice.

INTERVIEW: JACKIE NICKERSON talks to FILEP MOTWARY
Jackie Nickerson is a fine art photographer who has lived and worked in London and New York. She has an international reputation for photographing people and their environments. In September 2002, Jonathan Cape published ‘FARM’, a book of portraits of farm workers taken all over southern Africa. This is how I firstly came aware of her work and asked Vassilis Zidianakis get me in touch with her. Nickerson's on-going series, ‘Faith’ will be published by SteidlMack in 2007. She has been short listed for the John Kobel prize and nominated for the prestigious Becks Futures Award and her work is represented in many important collections such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Santa Monica Museum. She is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

. FilepMotwary:Your life is a journey through your camera. Do you feel that you have achieved the goals you had for yourself so far? What was the aim behind all this magnificent journey you made, in a personal point of view?

JackieNickerson:I think photography is a great tool for looking at everything that goes on around you. I feel like I’ve really just begun to understand what it is I’m looking at and what it is I really want to say. That started with FARM. I just follow what goes on in my life and don’t feel any pressure to produce a coherent body of work that all fits neatly together like a slick package. I just try to see what’s actually in front of me – both on the outside and the inside, and be honest about what that reality is.

To be continued in IQONS Magazine.

Later,

Diane

Dino Dinco for IQONS Magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers and Iqonians,

We are getting volumes of submissions for IQONS magazine, please know that we will filter through all of them and choose only the best of the best. Since I am spending a lot of time trying to clarify how and what to send, I give you another example of a message board. We request 7 random images and a quote, this is from Dino Dinco:

Photograph by Dino Dinco
Dino's is with Galerie Baumet Sultana
http://www.iqons.com/Dino+Dinco

QUOTE: Imagery can be powerful but our world suffers as reading
falls by the wayside. As the late Kathy Acker once wrote: "Those who
are most oppressed are often illiterate or rarely read."

When you send in your submission to

Please make a zip folder with your photographs or illustrations and slip this info into the file on a word document.

• Name of Artist
• Name of Story
• Subheading / quote
• Residence / Location
• Quote
• Credits: such photographer, make up, styling, set designer, hair, producer, art director .....
• IQONS URL
• Member since ....

Whereas all IQONIANS are welcome to submit their work, please be aware that there is a selection process on the part of the magazine.

All the best,

Diane

Michael James O'Brien

http://www.michaeljamesobrien.com/

To be continued in IQONS Magazine coming out in February

Harnais de la tete by Michael James O'Brien

harnais de la tete, paris 2005
(harness made by rex, paris)
Michael James O'Brien

Santiago de Compostela by Michael James O'Brien

photo by Michael James O'Brien, last day of NOOVO Festival.

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I had a lovely day today. First a nice lunch with Michael James O'Brien when he gave me this beautiful image from Santiago de Compostela then I had an inspired meeting with David Herman from Standard Magazine to discuss a potential project together and then Michael and I went off to visit Mr. Pearl. Mr. Pearl lives in a magical courtyard where every hour you can hear the bells of eglise Notre Dame. Perfect day but I did not take any photos.

Later,

Diane

OMG U GUYZZ!!! LOLvogue 'wurkin hrd 4 ana' edition

The gurls @ Jezebel R bak wit anothur rotflmfao editiun of LOLvogue.

Previous LOLvogues:
Scarves & Scooters
Models & Marionettes
Shoulders & Champagne

A few days before Art Basel there is Miami Beach Art Photo Expo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was happy to see that three of the photographers from the NOOVO exhibition wll be there: Michael James O'Brien, Wing Shya and Seb Janiak.

Miami Beach Art Photo expo is organizing and producing in Fashion 07 from December 2nd to December 9th at the Surfcomber hotel before and during the biggest Art Fair on the American Territory: Art Basel Miami Beach.

Marion de Beaupre is the curator of the inaugural exhibition. Marion selected 20 of the world's most famous fashion photographers, whose personalities and work have been chosen as a true representation of fashion today.

Miami Beach Art Photo Exp

Later,

Diane

Robb Young by Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I asked Miguel Villalobos to take a photo of RObb Young for the article that I am writing about him. I received the contact sheets today and love this image.

Later,

DIane

The Third and Extended issue of Exatitudes to be published December 2007

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A new book from Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, Exactitudes comes out in December. Ari and Ellie are based in Rotterdam The Netherlands and have systematically documented numerous identities over the past 14 years in a series called exactitudes. It is an anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.

The third and extended editon of the book will on sale from december 2007.
It is published by O1O publishers and distribuated by Idea books.

-Galerie Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam The Netherlands, 01-12-07 - 03-01-08.
-Photographers' Gallery at Ultralounge, the new Selfridges' gallery London England, February 2008

"Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 13 years. Rotterdam's heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in cities abroad.
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element."

Wim van Sinderen, Senior Curator Museum of Photography, The Hague

Later,

Diane

Face Hunter

Village Voice remembers Fred W. McDarrrah (1926-2007)

Fred W. McDarrah passed away last night. The image that Village Voice was given by Fred's family was taken by Miguel Villalobos.

Later,

Diane

Never Wilting Flower Project at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A GREAT DELICACY: Michael Bilsborough, McKendree Key, Danica Phelps, Gregory Parma Smith and Rebecca Veit + Kathryn Hillier

October 20 – December 1, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 6-8PM

Images by Rebecca Veit + Kathryn Hilier

A GREAT DELICACY: Michael Bilsborough, McKendree Key, Danica Phelps, Gregory Parma Smith and Rebecca Veit + Kathryn Hillier

October 20 – December 1, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 6-8PM

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present A Great Delicacy, a group show featuring 5 New York based artists, curated by Melissa Levin. A great delicacy can be an indulgence, but is also a way (with which) to render and create. The artists in this show are making work about food, sex, waste spills in the ocean, and the ways we digest or filter our own consumption. And there is an awareness in the work of the way we consume, a great delicacy in the treatment of the concepts and the rendering whether through photography, painting, drawing or collage. Generally it is more and more possible to become disconnected from what we eat, with whom we make love, where our waste goes after it leaves our cars, homes, and bodies. Each of the artists represented in this show are attentive to these things, if not in awe of them.

Rebecca Veit and Kathryn Hillier's still lives, from their series, The Never Wilting Flower Project, are beautiful and strange. Using food and objects shopped mostly at farmers and flea markets in both Paris and New York, the photographs direct your experience of these moments as they might never occur – like a pineapple painted gold and used for its odd body or a post-coital pomegranate torn apart and resting in front of a dense red curtain.

Michael Bilsborough’s drawings are simultaneously wild and controlled, sometimes erotic, and often grotesque. They are depictions of orgies inside perfectly constructed architecture and using perfect perspective. Figures might be repeated several times, performing different acts, often on one another. Devoid of sensuality, or voluptuous flesh, these scenes are anonymous but charged and are especially so in a world so saturated with generic sexual imagery focused on titillation and usually for sale. Ultimately, in Bilsborough’s work, there is a great conflation of the most attractive opposites, the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

This combination of the excessive and the restrained also appears in a different form in Gregory Parma Smith’s paintings. There is something very decadent in his renderings of generic things like strawberries or a pocketknife. It is as if he has gone deep inside of the thing (and of painting itself) and extracted the elements of its Platonic iteration. The subjects and surfaces of his paintings are therefore exquisite and pristine, but also luscious and very exciting.

McKendree Key’s collages are part of a series called Possibilities “based on the infinite number of possible scenarios taking place in the North-Pacific Gyre.” The North-Pacific Gyre, located between Asia and North America in the Pacific Ocean, has been described as “soupy with plastic”* because of the amount of waste it contains – mostly due to large spills from container ships. There are not images of the spills and in response, Key has created collaged waves filled with computer monitors, Nike shoes, umbrellas and traffic cones – a comment on the proliferation of needless and ignorant over-consumption. *From “Beach: Nike Shoes Wash Up”, by Janice Posada of The Daily Herald (Everett, Washington, 2001)

And Danica Phelps’ records of spending, earning and making love, from the series Integrating Sex into Everyday Life, are a detailed and obsessive daily documentation. These quantitative and qualitative accounts provide a more literal iteration of the intake and output of things in the world. This kind of record can appear detached but here it remains a highly personal account of daily struggles and triumphs

For additional information and images, please contact Heather Taylor at 310-559-9156 or heather@taylordecordoba.com. Taylor De Cordoba is located at 2660 South La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles, CA. The gallery is open from Tuesday – Saturday, 11AM – 6PM.

Later,

Diane

GRACIELA ITURBIDE , MEXICO CITY.

I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THE WORK OF THIS MEXICAN WOMAN THAT I RECENTLY DISCOVERD , I THINK THAT HER PHOTOGRPAHS PERFECTLY CONVEY SOME OF THE BEAUTIFUL MAGIC THAT I FIND IN MEXICO.

SELF PORTRAIT

SELF PORTRAIT

Kai Junemann photographs of Stefano Pilati for german art magazine " monopol"

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Stefano Pilati photographed by Kai Junemann for the German Art magazine, Monopol.

If you pick up the current issue of ZOO magazine you will find Kai's photos of Kris Van Assche.

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Diane

PORTRAIT CLASS

at central saint-martin's,
wearing some david david / fred perry / comme des garçons...

Miguel Villalobos in Toronto with Zaldy on a shoot for V magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Miquel Villalobos in Toronto with Zaldy. THey are there for a shoot that will appear in January's V magazine. Miguel did the photo and Zaldy styled. On the left is Miguel and Henny Garfunkel who he loves. Vincent Cassel and a model.

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Diane

Pat Kurs

Dear Shaded Viewers,

New work from Pat Kurs.

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Diane

Red Picasso from Pat Kurs

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Pat`s career started in adolescence at the Joffrey School of Ballet where she studied the discipline and grace of becoming a ballerina. _Pat always had a unique and original personal style and a passion for beauty of every type - flowers, art, clothes, dance. Her varied interests twirled her into the fertile world of fashion in the 70`s. _She became a prominent figure on the New York fashion scene. _Her uninhibited flair and style was often documented by Bill Cunningham for the N.Y. Times. Professionally, Pat developed a knack for bringing fashion shoots to life with her enthusiasm and talent. She became sought after to contribute to advertising campaigns and editorial shoots with photographers Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Bill King, and Bert Stern. Throughout this period Pat was also known for her meticulously crafted sequin geometric constructions used by Gene Moore for Tiffany`s window displays. She also pioneered work with the SX-70 Polaroid camera. Her extraordinary, sexually charged vignettes combining antique dolls, jewelry and the bodies of her circle of friends appeared in the SX-70 Art Book published by Lustrum Press in 1978, edited by Ralph Gibson. Recently, Pat has contributed her unique vision and taste to Brazilian Vogue, collaborating with editor Danniel Rangel, who was responsable for getting her the 2005 show at the Joyce Gallery in the Palais Royal in Paris. Diane Pernet whose blog, “A Shaded View On Fashion”, has provided ongoing coverage of Pat’s career. Her work has also recently been featured in Very magazine, Blend,L`Officiel, and “Issue One”, from London and Vogue. Her work was presented in 2006 at the Gallerio Tempo in Rio de Janeiro. Her work has been represented in New York City by the Staley-Wise gallery. Through advances in computer scanning and printing processes Pat`s personal work has evolved into a larger format and includes limited editions of the early images and new digital visions.

Photographer Pat Kurs is currently preparing for her one woman show, Doll Face October 4, 2007 Galerie Sous Les Etoiles 560 Broadway, New York.

Later,

Diane

Miguel Villalobos joins the first International festival of Fashion and Photography organized by Grupo Correo Gallego - NOOVO Magazine November 1 -4 in Santiago de Compostela

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Miguel Villalobos will be showing his work at the first fashion and photography festival organized by

Grupo Correo Galliego-NOOVO Magazine in Santiago de Compostela. The co-founders of the NOOVO festival are Charo Gonzalez and Jorge Margolles, I am the co-curator and Robb Young is handling the international press.

portrait by Miguel Villalobos

Miguel Villalobos is a Venezuelan-born, New York-based photographer working
in film, fashion and art.

Miguel started as an illustrator in Caracas, Venezuela, where he graduated
from the "Instituto de Diseño de Caracas". While in Caracas, he receive an
honorary mention in the “Pedro Leon Zapata Award". The “Pedro Leon Zapata
Award" is Venezuela's most distinguished award for
journalistic-illustration.

In 1997 Miguel moved to New York where he started working as visual
consultant and documentary photographer for the film “Hedwig and the Angry
Itch”, and as art director for Laurie Anderson’s video “Life on a String”.

Miguel is a regular contributor to Jalouse (France), Tetu (France), Butt
Magazine (Holland), Revista Metal (Spain), V and V man Magazines (US) and
Fantastic Man (Holland).

His photography and illustration work has also been published in Purple
Fashion (France), Interview (US), Le Monde (France), Vogue Hommes
International(France), Fake Magazine (Spain), Vanidad (Spain), Blend
Magazine (Holland), Filmmaker Magazine (US) and BlackBook (US)

During his time in NY, Miguel has done ongoing collaborations documenting
the work of New York artist Kathy Rose, designer Zaldy and Gwen Stefani at
L.A.M.B.,among others.

As an illustrator, Miguel currently designs textile prints for L.A.M.B.,
Helmut Lang and Zaldy. Another sample of Miguel's illustrations is the opening image on this site.

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Diane

"Genius loci" by Kathryn Hillier Exhibition in Rotterdam

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Kathryn Hillier's solo exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, in Rotterdam.
www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl

is currently on view from July 28 to September 16, 2007.

The exhibition is titled "Genius loci", in
latin it means, the spirit of place. There are 23 photographs in the exhibition that center on primarily
interiors of European museums, photographed between 2003 and 2006. The exhibition focuses on the dichotomy between nature and culture.

www.kathrynhillier.com
www.nwfproject.com

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Diane

New Work by Pat Kurs

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A behind the scenes look at Pat Kurs and her new work.

All photos by Pat Kurs
Photos of Pat Kurs by Martine Julien

Pat Kurs - Doll Face Show exhibition October 4, 2007 Galerie Sous Les Etoiles 560 Broadway, New York

Later,

Diane

Akiko HAMAOKA, Yoko and DP by Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A few images taken by Miguel Villalobos on his last trip to Paris...he will be back in Paris tomorrow.

Akiko Hamaoka and Yoko Miyake chez Miguel

The beautiful snail Miguel designed for me. I love my snail. I forgot him on my trip to Arnhem and was very sad.

My lovely silver parasol, a gift from my friends David Gil and Vincent Gagliostro

Miguel in Paris

How lucky I am to have friends that know me so well.

Later,

Diane

photos by Miguel Villalobos

Patricia Canino at the NKA Gallery in Brussels 4 July to 30 September

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Patricia Canino is a filmmaker as well as a photographer. If you scroll back a few posts you will see that she and her partner in film Sergei Pescei were in Vienna with Dino and I for You Wear it Well. Recently I've discovered her photography and wanted to share her work with you . The nudes will be exhibited 4 July at the NKA Gallery in Brussels.

These images were exposed in the "vaniity fair" exhibition at NKA Gallery

The web site of the gallery
http://www.nka-gallery.com/expo.php
A blog about this gallery
http://blog.cestchic.be/post/2007/01/14/NKALa-galerie-Backstage-dagence-de-pub

Later,

Diane

Deshabilliz-Moi from July 4th to September 30th NKA Gallery

Motive Gallery

Dear Shaded Viewers,

23 June | 30 September 2007

Fotomuseum Den Haag
'Among photographers'
Koos Breukel

In the course of his career, Koos Breukel (1962) has produced portraits of dozens of his fellow photographers, in recognition of them as kindred spirits, sources of inspiration or friends. In this exhibition, Breukel will present a selection of around 55 of these portraits, each paired with a single item from the oeuvre of the photographer depicted. The resulting show will convey a wonderful impression of Breukel’s professional world 'among photographers'. It will include photographs of and by a star-studded list including Richard Avedon, Paul Blanca, Rineke Dijkstra, Ed van der Elsken, Gerard Fieret, Robert Frank, Inez van Lamsweerde, Dana Lixenberg, Paul Kooiker, Hellen van Meene, Martine Stig and Hannes Wallrafen.

www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl

23 June | 2 September 2007

Museum de Fundatie, Kasteel het Nijenhuis
'SHELTER' tents, huts and other dwellings

artists: Berlinde de Bruyckere, Tom Claassen, Alicia Framis, Atelier van Lieshout, Dirk van Lieshout, Erwin Olaf, Lucy Orta, Maria Roosen, Miguel Peres dos Santos, Rob Voerman, Henk Wildschut and others.

www.museumdefundatie.nl

29 June | 16 September 2007

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
'Drawing Typologies' - Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions Drawings