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Photographer and collector Martin Parr’s ‘painted photographs’, found in flea markets and second-hand shops, are press prints and publicity shots of actors, musicians and sports stars from the post-war decades. The images have been ‘painted’ by newspapers or magazines to improve their reproduction or indicate areas for cropping. Exhibited for the first time, these pictures of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John and Yoko show us how images of celebrities were refined and manipulated in a time before Photoshop.

On at the Openeye Gallery from 13th January until 18th March 2012, see more here: http://www.openeye.org.uk/archive-exhibition/martin-parr-painted-photographs/

See more of Martin’s work here: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/martin-parr/photography/

 

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Respect is an important value, both on and off the pitch. We should accept everybody else, even when they are different from us.

Respect the colours, identities, team mates, opponents, referees and fans. Respect all opinions and points of view. In a wider context, respect for others begins with self-respect.

Diver & Aguilar’s portraits of the Barcelona Players have been used in the online “respect” Campaign digitally broadcast to the 100,00 Capacity of the Camp-Nou. The concept in support of Respect is that anyone can email there picture to The Barcelona Foundation and have their image broadcast on screens live during the game next to the images of  Barcelona Players themselves.

 Supported by: Social Work “la Caixa”

In Collaboration with: UEFA RESPECT, UNESCO CATALUNYA, Lilian Thuram Foundation

See more here: http://www.somelquefem.cat/somelquerespectem/index.php?lang=en

See more here: http://www.diveraguilar.com/blog/?p=715

See more Diver & Aguilar’s work here: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/diver-aguilar/photography/

 

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Ralph Fiennes invited Kalpesh Lathigra on to the set of Coriolanus to document the making of the film in Serbia,  alongside producing a behind the scenes reportage, the artwork for the  UK poster and an exclusive portrait of Fiennes, Kalpesh wanted to  shoot a personal body of work in relation to the Set where by the  actors were not the prominent players on the stage but merely part of  the wider tableaux of the Set encompassing the Locations, Crew and  Paraphanelia.

See more of Kalpesh’s work here: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/kalpesh-lathigra/photography/

 

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Photo50 is an exhibition of contemporary photography and features fifty works – most for sale – curated by Sue Steward (writer, broadcaster, photography curator).

This year, Photo50 opens up a spectrum of contemporary photography from the analogue to the digital. This selection of work by twelve photographers focuses on different ways of representing an image and it reveals the broad range of processes involved in image-making. Sue Steward has labelled them ‘alchemists’ because the term resonates with the ancient practitioners of photography, the experimenters with chemicals and paper, the pioneers of ‘writing with light’ which is what photo-graphy literally means.

Many images in this exhibition were produced through analogue processes and reveal surprising similarities with their digital counterparts; many mingle the two. There is also the changing assumption that the photographic print is the finished object, the ultimate goal of production. But it is no longer necessarily the end-point; the printed paper is enduring the transformation, partially destroyed or decorated, re-built to take on a new dimension – and becoming an original art work in its own right.

The works in Photo50 highlight the richness and diversity of photography today. It’s almost impossible now to define ‘photography’ because of its porous nature and its convergence with painting film and craft, demonstrated in this exhibition.  It is a vast art form – and London is a hub for these significant, beautiful, seismic changes.

Read more about the exhibition here: http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/page.cfm/link=58

See more of Melinda’s work here: http://melindagibson.blogspot.com/

 

 

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The future does not belong to pure photography, but to the free arts,’ says Andreas Gursky, one of the advisors of the “State of the Art Photography” exhibition. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf asked for photographers who are tipped to be the movers and the shakers in this field in the coming years. In an attempt to reflect this remit, each of the 40 artists/photographers who feature in this summary exhibition is represented by a collection of images or an installation. The photographers were proposed by Andreas Gursky, Thomas Weski, Klaus Biesenbach, Udo Kittelmann, FC Gundlach, Thomas Seelig, Andrea Holzherr, and Werner Lippert. They hail from America, Europe, and South Africa; other continents and cultural spaces will be addressed at a later date.

Exhibition opens on 4th Feburary and runs until 6th May 2012, read more here: http://www.nrw-forum.de/state_of_the_art_photography_english

See more of WassinkLundgren’s work here: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/wassinklundgren/photography/

 

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