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Look: The Photography of David Bailey

by Tamara on May 7, 2010

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David Bailey’s 40 year career behind the lens is captured in the quaint 4×6 book “Look,” published by Phaidon Press Inc and in stores this month. The cover depicts Bailey’s son Sacha. Over 40 years, Bailey photographed celebrities and family member alike in intimate moments, capturing a range of emotions. Portraits of Johny Depp and Jack Nicholson capture the coolness of the iconic actors. A portrait of Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski depicts a hauting sense of innocence. Whereas, Bailey doesn’t shy away from personal moments, including a shot of his wife (Catherine Deneuve) giving birth. Bailey is adept at photographing artists including Andy Warhol, Julian Schabel and a nude Damien Hirst with the exposed flesh of a cow. Definitely, worth a long, hard look.

(via Gotryke)

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DOOM Unexpected Guests

by chloe on December 14, 2009

Doom just released a compilation of sorts - pretty much his hand-picked collection of unreleased material, with features including Ghostface, Sean Price, Vast Aire and Mastah Killah to name a few. You’ve heard a lot of the beats and some of the rhymes before but fuck it, I could listen to DOOM all day (and I do, I do). Check the preview here and listen to a few choice tracks below. . . and think about how much DOOM sounds like Eric Sermon. The Villain is back.


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Kehinde Wiley: Black Light

August 26, 2009

One of my favorite artists is a Harlem-based painter named Kehinde Wiley. He had a sick show at Studio Museum of Harlem last year; he also slayed Deitch Projects in December, and he even keeps a few permanent pieces at the Brooklyn Museum. Originally from LA - but who cares he’s a globetrotter with ill [...]

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Ethiopia in a Night via Green Owl

June 16, 2009

It’s time for a Green Owl shoutout. Green Owl is  a dope record label running tings for global movers and shakers like Malawian Esau Mwamwaya and Sierra Leone’s Janka Nabay (interview coming soon). According to their site it’s “a label started by artists for artists with the idea that great music can be sustainable—both economically [...]

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Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition

May 10, 2009

In 1980, New York City was a different place. Hip-hop was in it’s inception and for the transit authority and the general public, graffiti art was recognized as little more than an entry-level crime and a “social plague”. But for street photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, the stealthy spray-paint artists and their elaborate subway [...]

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Art + Poetry + Jasons = Bangin’ Book-zine

April 22, 2009

My homies Jason Douglas Griffin and Jason Reynolds have just released their debut book-zine My Name is Jason. Mine Too as a  Harper Collins “teen-read”. Look, people. It’s not just for teens. These dudes are both extremely talented and they have created a dope little reader that integrates beautiful written word, water color illustrations, and [...]

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